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Garry Tan on the Past, Present, and Future of YC
Gary Tan is the President and CEO of Y Combinator.
YC is the startup accelerator behind companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Reddit, Twitch, and thousands more. According to Garry, they’ve invested in 20% of all startups worth $5B or more started since 2012.
Gary has lived every side of the YC ecosystem. He went through YC as a founder, later became a partner, started Initialized Capital where he backed companies like Coinbase and Instacart, and then returned to lead YC.
We walk through the different “eras” of YC, from the early Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston days in Cambridge, to…
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