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.
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.
Career
Garry Tan attended Stanford University.
President and CEO at Y Combinator from 2023-01 to Present.Leads Y Combinator. Previously a YC partner from 2011 to 2015, advising founders and building Bookface and the Demo Day website.
Founder and Board Partner at Initialized Capital until Present.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.PCo-founder at Posthaven until Present.
GLFounder and Editor-in-Chief at Garry’s List until Present.Founded the civic news and membership community with Forrest Liu and Shaudi Fulp and serves as editor-in-chief.
Early Engineer and Designer at Palantir from 2005 to 2007.