---
title: "Garry Tan"
category: "people"
role: "President & CEO"
company: "Y Combinator"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrytan/"
twitter: "https://x.com/garrytan"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Garry Tan

## Profile
President & CEO at [[y-combinator|Y Combinator]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrytan/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/garrytan)

## Biography
Garry is President & CEO at [[y-combinator|Y Combinator]], which he rejoined in Fall 2023, after founding Initialized Capital, a successful venture fund. Garry was one of YC’s first partners and funded and advised many iconic YC companies including Coinbase, Instacart, and many others. In YC’s early days, Garry also served as a designer and engineer, and he wrote software and created Bookface, the internal network that connects YC’s alumni founders to this day. Before advising and investing in companies, Garry co-founded the blog platform Posterous (acquired by Twitter in 2012) and was an early employee at Palantir and designed its logo. Garry holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-garry-tan-closing-keynote-garry-tan]] — Closing Keynote: Garry Tan (2026-07-01, 4:50pm-5:10pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-garry-tan-closing-keynote-garry-tan|Closing Keynote: Garry Tan]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-I2cbIws9j10` — 91,792 transcript words; 7 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: code, model, back, system, well, first, today, even.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: context, window, selects, response, facts, retry, coerce, rollback.
- Evidence links for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-transcript]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-slides]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-dense-slides]]

## Livestream Appearances
- [[2026-07-01-garry-tan-closing-keynote-garry-tan|Closing Keynote: Garry Tan]] — [watch at 07:57:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cbIws9j10&t=28640s) in WF26: Harness Engineering & Startup Battlefield (Day 3).