Garry Tan is President and CEO of Y Combinator, the world's leading startup accelerator that has funded over 5,000 companies with a combined valuation exceeding $600 billion. He rejoined YC in January 2023 after founding Initialized Capital, where he led investments in unicorns like Coinbase, Instacart, and Flexport.

Garry graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Computer Systems Engineering and was employee number 10 at Palantir Technologies, where he designed the company logo. He co-founded Posterous, a blogging platform that was acquired by Twitter for $20 million in 2012.

Garry was a YC partner from 2011 to 2015, where he built Bookface and wrote Coinbase's first seed check. He has been named to the Forbes Midas List from 2018 to 2022 and has advised over 1,000 startups throughout his career.

As founder of Initialized Capital, Garry raised $700 million across multiple funds and built a portfolio of category-defining companies. He has read over 6,000 YC applications and the companies he has worked with are worth a combined $226 billion.

Under Garry's leadership, YC restructured its investment operations and initiated a $2 billion fundraising effort across new funds. He runs a popular YouTube channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, sharing startup insights and founder stories.