People

Garry Tan

Garry Tan

Formal First Name
Garry
Dates
1981 - present

Garry Tan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Initialized Capital, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Prior to this, he advised and funded more than 700 companies and founders as a Partner at Y Combinator. He also created Posterous, a blogging platform acquired by Twitter in 2012. Before that, Tan was employee #10 at Palantir Technologies, where he co-founded the engineering team for the firm's quant finance analysis product. He also designed the current Palantir logo and wordmark.

Professional Experience


Academic History

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

  • Forbes Midas List 2019, 2020, 2021 


MEDIA

  • Tan has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.
  • His YouTube channel has more than 180,000 subscribers.
  • His videos have over 4,700,000 views collectively.