Garry Tan

Garry is a designer/engineer turned early-stage investor. He was a partner at Y Combinator for nearly five
years, advising and funding over 600 companies and more than a thousand founders. He co-founded the
YC-backed blog platform Posterous (Top 200 Quantcast site, acquired by Twitter in 2012). Before that, he
was employee #10 at Palantir, where he was a founding member of the engineering team for Palantir’s
financial analysis product, and also designed Palantir’s logo. He has a BS in Computer Systems
Engineering from Stanford.