Garry Tan is the president and CEO of Y Combinator. He co-founded the venture capital firm Initialized Capital and the blogging platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter, and was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, where he contributed as a designer and engineering manager. Tan holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University and has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List for his influential investments in companies like Coinbase and Instacart.