Y Combinator’s CEO has a message for founders worried about burning too many AI tokens: Burn, baby, burn.
On an episode of the A16z podcast released on Wednesday, Garry Tan said that founders should give themselves permission to spend heavily on AI tokens — even if it comes with a hefty price tag.
“You have to tune it all the way up. You’re just, like, let me load a million tokens or 800,000 tokens in,” he said about using AI agents. “When you do that, I think that you basically get to live in 2028.”
Tan’s pitch is that spending heavily on AI agents lets founders access a level of AI capability most others will only have access to in the future.
