Garry Tan

Garry Tan (born March 21, 1981) is the co-founder of Initialized Capital. He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. He was also an early employee at Palantir Technologies, and a partner at Y Combinator from 2011 to 2015.

Garry Tan
Alma materStanford University
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forPosterous
Posthaven
Initialized Capital

Early life and education

He attended Stanford University from 1999 to 2003, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering. While in high school and college, he was a software engineer intern at Sapient, TheMan.com, and Sun Microsystems.

Career

From 2003 to 2005, he was a Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Mobile. From 2005 to 2007, he worked as an early employee at the financial analysis platform at Palantir Technologies.[1]

In 2008, Tan co-founded Posterous, a blogging platform, which raised $5 million and was acquired by Twitter in 2012. He co-founded Posthaven after the shutdown of Posterous.[2] He joined Y Combinator in 2011 as a designer in residence but was quickly promoted to partner, where he stayed until November 2015.[3] While he was a partner at Y Combinator, he helped compile a directory of "the best and the brightest interaction designers and visual designers".[4] On August 1, 2013, he, along with Harjeet Taggar and reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have raised $39 million for a separate fund called Initialized Capital, which looks for high-quality founders first and then tries to see if they can help or understand the market of a company.[5] In 2018 and 2021, Tan was listed on the Forbes Midas List.[6][7]

See also

References
  1. Tan, Garry. "How YC Rewrote the Seed Playbook with Garry Tan".
  2. "Posthaven Rises From Posterous' Ashes To Launch "E-Mail To Post" As It Reaches Financial Sustainability". Techcrunch.com. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  3. "Garry Tan Says Goodbye to Y Combinator". Techcrunch.com. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  4. "Y Combinator Launching Designer Directory". Mashable.com. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  5. "YC Partners Taggar, Tan And Reddit Co-Founder Ohanian Raise $39M For Initialized Capital". Techcrunch.com. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
  6. "Newcomers To The 2019 Midas List: Who Cracked The Ranks Of Best VCs In The World". Forbes. April 2, 2019. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  7. "Forbes 2021 Midas List". Forbes. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
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