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Investor profile

Garry Tan

Founder (Initialized Capital); Partner (Y Combinator), Y Combinator

About

Garry Tan brings an unusually hands-on builder background to venture investing, having co-founded the blogging platform Posterous before becoming Y Combinator's President & CEO, and he continues to write code and build YC's internal software tools while treating the accelerator itself as a product that must continuously ship and iterate. He champions ambitious misfits and earnestness over polish in founders, runs YC in founder mode with high-agency leadership, and maintains a large personal YouTube channel where he teaches tactical startup skills to the next generation of entrepreneurs. Garry Tan brings an unusually hands-on builder background to venture investing, having co-founded the blogging platform Posterous before becoming Y Combinator's President & CEO, and he continues to write code and build YC's internal software tools while treating the accelerator itself as a product that must continuously ship and iterate. He champions ambitious misfits and earnestness over polish in founders, runs YC in founder mode with high-agency leadership, and maintains a large personal YouTube channel where he teaches tactical startup skills to the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
AI
SaaS
Devtools
Deeptech
Hardware
FinTech

Investment details

Avg check size$150K
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA