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.