Garry Tan
Founder at Y Combinator
San Francisco, California, United States
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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.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Systems Engineering, BS, Computer Systems Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (18)
ai10
claude10
wordpress9
tinymce9
iframe9
sprockets6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
ruby6
javascript6
capistrano4
cli4
rails2
vsphere2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
garrytan/gstack
Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA
Contributions:85 PRs, 628 pushes, 127 branches in 3 months
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garrytan/gbrain
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Garry's Opinionated OpenClaw/Hermes Agent Brain
Contributions:52 PRs, 710 pushes, 127 branches in 3 months
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