President & CEO at Y Combinator
Peter flew me down from Seattle to join Palantir as a co-founder and offered to match my seventy thousand dollars salary at Microsoft. I declined because I was obsessed with corporate status and expected a promotion at Microsoft. It was a multi-billion dollar mistake driven by working from a map instead of my instincts.
This answer is part of a full interview with Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator.
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