Garry Tan

Garry Tan (; born 1981) is an American venture capitalist and executive who is the CEO of Y Combinator and a founder of Initialized Capital. He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. He was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, and previously a partner at Y Combinator. Tan is also known for his engagement in San Francisco politics, both as a commenter on social media and as a political donor. Early life and education Tan was born in 1981 to a Chinese Singaporean father and a Burmese-Chinese mother in Winnipeg, Canada. The family settled in Fremont, California in 1991, and Tan graduated from American High School. He started programming at 14 and found his first job by cold-calling the Yellow Pages. He attended Stanford University from 1999 to 2003, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering.