Garry Tan
Founder at Posthaven
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarry Tan is a founder, operator, and investor with 13+ years of experience building and scaling product-driven technology companies from the ground up. As President & CEO of Y Combinator and former managing partner of Initialized Capital, he has helped seed and advise startups that now represent hundreds of billions in market value, with early bets including Coinbase and Instacart. A designer-engineer turned investor, he combines hands-on product and interaction design chops (built YC’s Bookface and Demo Day realtime video) with deep experience in technical architecture and scaling. He co-founded Posterous (acquired by Twitter), helped launch Palantir’s finance product as an early engineer, and continues to ship products like Posthaven. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for marrying user-centered design with rigorous product management and for repeatedly finding high-leverage moments to back founders before the market notices.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Systems Engineering, BS Computer Systems Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (21)
capistrano4
react3
javascript3
bare3
terraform2
rails2
rich-text2
text-editor2
vsphere2
bare-metal2
rte2
contenteditable2
text-editing2
aws2
scale2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
garrytan/zurb-foundation-wysihtml5
Jan 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year
garrytan/Timber
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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