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. 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. 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. He joined Y Combinator in 2011 as a designer in residence but was quickly promoted to partner, where he stayed until November 2015. While he was a partner at Y Combinator, he helped compile a directory of "the best and the brightest interaction designers and visual designers". 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. In 2018 and 2021, Tan was listed on the "Forbes" Midas List.