Garry Tan leads Y Combinator as president and CEO and is a founder and board partner at Initialized Capital. He previously built software and design at Palantir and co-founded the blogging platforms Posterous and Posthaven. They serve as a board member for Stanford ASES. They gave a keynote at TreeHacks 2026.
+5Leads Y Combinator. Previously a YC partner from 2011 to 2015, advising founders and building Bookface and the Demo Day website.
Co-founded Initialized Capital. Stepped down as managing partner in August 2022; the succession announcement said he would remain a founder/partner until early 2023 and then serve as a strategic advisor.
Co-founder
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Founded the civic news and membership community with Forrest Liu and Shaudi Fulp and serves as editor-in-chief.
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Early Engineer and Designer
Program Manager
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Software Engineer Intern
Bachelor's studies in software
