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YC people slug or a ycombinator.com/people URL.
Examples:
- Slug:
garry-tan - URL:
https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan
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"bio": "Garry Tan is president and CEO of Y Combinator and a General Partner. He was a partner at Y Combinator from 2011 to 2015, where he built key parts of the YC experience for founders including Bookface and the Demo Day website. Garry is the co-founder of Initialized Capital and Posterous (YC S08), a blog platform acquired by Twitter, and prior to that, he was an early designer and engineering manager at Palantir (NYSE:PLTR), where he designed the company logo. Garry holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford.",
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"value": "The companies Garry has worked with are worth a combined $226 billion."
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"title": "Inaugural YC Top Companies List by Revenue",
"link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-top-companies-list-by-revenue"
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{
"title": "Tom Blomfield of GoCardless and Monzo is Our Newest Group Partner",
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"title": "Y Combinator Names Venture Capitalist Garry Tan As Its Next President",
"link": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/08/29/y-combinator-names-garry-tan-as-next-president/?sh=234c8781a5ca",
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"title": "Y Combinator's Garry Tan on Zoom fundraising and not having a boss",
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"publisher": "Axios"
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{
"title": "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan Talks Startups",
"link": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-06-27/ai-boom-is-about-cerebral-valley-y-combinator-ceo-video",
"publisher": "Bloomberg"
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"title": "Garry Tan breaks down the key metric in Y Combinator's new list of top startups",
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"link": "https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/03/10/y-combinators-garry-tan-estimates-hundreds-of-startups-will-be-unable-to-make-payroll-after-svb-closure.html",
"publisher": "CNBC"
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"title": "What Garry Tan Has Learned About Startups After Founding 2 Companies--and Advising More Than 700",
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"publisher": "Inc"
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{
"title": "2023 Midas List",
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"title": "Interviewing the CEO of Y Combinator",
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"text": "An est. 4.5% of the startups that have gone through Y Combinator since 2010 have become billion-dollar companies. Between 2010 and 2015 [the rate] was even higher, at approximately 5.4% of all startups. 2/3 of total value has come from its unicorns.",
"link": "https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1669046392856387584",
"date": "2023-06-14"
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"text": "Founders comparing early stage round valuations is like comparing the color of shoes at the beginning of a marathon",
"link": "https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1644346550641098752",
"date": "2023-04-07"
},
{
"text": "Y Combinator changed my life. It's the best community I've ever lucked into being a part of. The outcomes are head and shoulders better than any other program of its type. My pledge to you is that we will do even more to help founders than ever.",
"link": "https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1669050019725611008",
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"title": "Inside The Most Powerful Startup Community In The World",
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"link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Lt-vertical-ai-agents-could-be-10x-bigger-than-saas",
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{
"name": "Jared Friedman",
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"title": "Garry's Channel: Stop chasing money -- Chase wealth",
"link": "https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Je-garry-s-channel-stop-chasing-money-chase-wealth",
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"description": "In this episode of our rebooted series \"How To Build The Future,\" YC President and CEO Garry Tan sits down with Sam Altman to talk about the origins of OpenAI, what’s next for the company, and what advice he has for founders navigating this massive platform shift.",
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1575,
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214,
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284,
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353,
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576,
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920,
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1029,
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1116,
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1185,
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1254,
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1322,
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1419,
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1503,
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1618,
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"title": "Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities",
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