Garry Tan

Garry is a former Y Combinator partner, and spent 4.5 years at Y Combinator selecting and advising over a thousand early stage founders and 600 startups. The program has less than a 2% acceptance rate and in that time Garry was on the decision team for both major >$1B valuation YC startups during his tenure there (Zenefits and Instacart). Previously he was a YC founder himself with a blogging startup Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and employee #10 at Palantir where he led a major product group and designed the current logo.