Garry Tan
@garrytan
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President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @Initialized—designer/engineer who helps founders—San Francisco Dem accelerating the boom loop—e/acc—technology brother
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2008
Tech gave me everything I have Its capacity to lift people into abundance is incredible and there is nothing like it We must make that into prosperity for everyone
"I realized tech is this thing that can bring people out of whatever situation they're in and often into prosperity. And that's what I want for everyone." @ycombinator’s @garrytan tells @emilychangtv how tech changed his family's life. Watch here: https://t.co/0HiusBQwCD
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Honestly, he's done a very good job
Jared Kushner brokered both the Abraham Accords and the Gaza Peace Deal. Absolute legend.
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When we first met @serenaa_ge, she showed us the climbing wall she’d built in her mom’s basement; a tribute to the sport she loved. That wall has since become the perfect metaphor for everything we’ve come to admire about Serena and the @datacurve_ai team: obsession. From the
Today we’re announcing we’ve raised $17.5 million in funding across a $15M Series A led by Chemistry and a $2.7M Seed to accelerate foundation model progress through providing frontier training data for LLMs. When we first started Datacurve, it came from a simple realization:
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Every digital artifact can be expressed as code and code gen is coming to every digital product. Preston and Eitan are building lightning fast models and infra for devs implementing coding agents. Privileged to work with this supremely talented team alongside friends at a16z!
.@relace_ai has raised $23M to build the rails for AI code generation. This round is led by @a16z, with participation from @matrixvc and @ycombinator. LLMs have proven they can write code—but scaling that code into production still needs better infrastructure. Relace is
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Thank you to everyone that came out to shrimp party! I want to thank @garrytan @metaversehell @kelp_feeder @frinkiac @ti_morse @sdamico and many others for helping out in big ways!
From this joke came a real (and genuinely ethical, notes below) Shrimp Party being held at @ycombinator’s HQ this Thursday (10/9) from 4-6pm with collaborations from @sdamico/@ImpulseLabs_/@kelp_feeder. Partiful link below!
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Is @serenaa_ge the next @alexandr_wang? Both 18-ish when they started Both years ahead of their time on data Both incredible leaders
Today we’re announcing we’ve raised $17.5 million in funding across a $15M Series A led by Chemistry and a $2.7M Seed to accelerate foundation model progress through providing frontier training data for LLMs. When we first started Datacurve, it came from a simple realization:
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San Francisco is an interesting place Because in the digital world you can build a billion dollar company with a million dollars funding and in a few years And in the physical world you can build one traffic light
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Amazon’s CEO makes at least $40.1 MILLION a year while the average Amazon worker makes less than $38k a year How is that pro-worker or pro-American? It’s time to put American workers FIRST
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Incredibly excited to lead @vulcantechteam’s $11M seed round. Vulcan is developing America’s regulatory operating system, and is already working with several government agencies, including the State of Virginia, South Carolina, and the Department of Education. Engineers have
.@vulcantechteam is building an operating system for the global regulatory compliance market, serving both government and enterprise. That’s why we’re leading their seed round. Founders @Tanner_H_Jones, Aleksandr Mekhanik, and Chris Minge are developing legal cartography
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Congrats to @vulcantechteam on their $11M seed to unleash American abundance. Vulcan's legal cartography helps builders grow and expand into highly regulated spaces and helps government agencies reduce red tape. @tanner_h_jones @child_drowning
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General Catalyst and Cubit Capital co-led the round.
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The San Francisco politician who is part of the Tiananmen-Square-denier fringe party and supported the algebra-is-racist-ban is running to be Superintendent of all public schools. This is the state of public education in California.
If you think this is an outlier example of how bad teachers unions are, San Francisco’s teachers union @UESF has a VP who once ran for office as part of a fringe party that denies the Tiananmen Massacre.
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Datacurve Series A announced. ~5 months early here. Congrats Serena!
Datacurve AI (YC W24) — Premium curated coding data for applications and LLMs. ~$9M ARR in 13 months. Founders are only ~20. Congrats on $14M Series A at $150M led by @chemistry_fund.
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Super proud of the Datacurve team
Congrats to @datacurve_ai on their $15M Series A! Datacurve provides frontier training data to the world’s leading foundation-model labs, helping to push the boundaries of what AI can do. https://t.co/8SCyvZ6OEt
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we raised a $13m seed round from 120+ of Silicon Valley’s top investors for @mastra_ai, the leading TypeScript agent framework
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I'm thrilled to share that @onkernel has raised $22M in Seed + Series A funding from @Accel with participation from @ycombinator @cintrifuse @vercel @svangel @RefineryVC @paulg @zeeg @charliermarsh & more 🚀 @rfgarcia and I started Kernel because LLMs can now automate any
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Open Banking = open, safe, standardized, consumer-permissioned finance. Regulators get safety, banks get clarity, builders get speed, consumers get control. Bank switching in minutes, not weeks This is a critical comment period as the White House decides the fate of Open Banking
Great panel today from @fintechassoc on why the CFPB and Trump administration should protect open banking from falling prey to large bank games and fees. ICYMI, keep an eye out for their recording. Fantastic insights from @arampell @ciaomack @garrytan and more.
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T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶'s̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶p̶p̶ f̶o̶r̶ t̶h̶̶a̶t̶ There’s an app for you. Meet Wabi: the first personal software platform. Generate beautiful, useful and fun little apps informed by your life.
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Today we’re announcing we’ve raised $17.5 million in funding across a $15M Series A led by Chemistry and a $2.7M Seed to accelerate foundation model progress through providing frontier training data for LLMs. When we first started Datacurve, it came from a simple realization:
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Set it, and forget it Building our own hardware means our robots do the job in the ideal way for customers--not the other way around
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Breaking: SF Planning halts yoga studio after neighbors claim downward dog increases shadows.
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