Garry Tan
Hi, I'm Garry Tan —I'm President & CEO of Y Combinator. I'm a designer, engineer, and investor in early stage startups. Previously Founder & Managing Partner of Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that was earliest in Coinbase and Instacart.
Before that, I was a a partner at Y Combinator. Invested in and directly worked with over 700 companies the earliest possible stage, often just an idea. I cofounded Posterous and helped build it to a world-class website used by millions. (Acquired by Twitter) I also helped build the engineering team for Palantir Technology's quant finance analysis platform, and designed the current Palantir logo and wordmark.
I love building things. Forbes Midas List 2019 through 2022 🚀
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This 18 yo Asian American genius got rejected from 16 colleges because of racism
Legalize Math in California ft. Jelani Nelson
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Making Startup Finances 10X Easier & More Powerful - Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway
Small Businesses CAN Take Back Their Future - with Kevin Song of withco
Discussing Silicon Valley's Bright Future with Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
Homelessness: Trapped Between Compassion & Chaos
The Untold Stories of Y Combinator with Co-Founder Jessica Livingston
Achieving The American Dream through Tech, with Aarthi & Sriram @AarthiAndSriram
Secrets of Reality Distortion Fields With Lulu Cheng Meservey
How Luxury Beliefs are Ruining Society, with Rob Henderson
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Day in the Life of Y Combinator President & CEO Garry Tan during the first week of W24 batch
The Secrets of Y Combinator’s Early Success (with YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston)
How Psychedelics will Change Society for the Better | with Dillan DiNardo of Mindstate Design Labs
From Underdog to Undefeated: The Edrizio De La Cruz founder story
Athelas is the Rippling of Healthcare: Use $4 Trillion to improve healthcare
The future of reading books is hands free | SOL Reader
How Facebook could have built Threads 30X faster & cheaper
A profitable fintech built on helping special needs customers
Wildfires are out of control. Computer Vision can stop them.
The Truth and Lies About Driverless Cars in SF
How to Survive the Next Tech Revolution (w/ Brett Gibson)
The Future of at-home Health Testing with Simple HealthKit
How To Get Rich, and Stay Rich With The Coterie’s Ethan Agarwal
Underrated but Unbeatable: A $275M healthcare startup success
Applied AI for Pricing: You can’t be everywhere but your AI co-pilot can
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