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In 2018, Tan was listed at #21 on the Forbes Midas List.

In 2008, Tan co-founded Posterous, a blogging platform, which raised $5 million and was acquired by Twitter in 2012. He co-founded Posthaven after the shutdown of Posterous. He joined Y Combinator in 2011 as a designer in residence but was quickly promoted to partner, where he stayed until November 2015. While he was a partner at Y Combinator, he helped manage 54 investments, such as Instacart and Coinbase. He also helped compile a directory of "the best and the brightest interaction designers and visual designers". On August 1, 2013, he, along with Harjeet Taggar and reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have raised $39 million for a separate fund called Initialized Capital, which looks for high-quality founders first and then tries to see if they can help or understand the market of a company.

From 2003 to 2005, he was a Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Mobile. From 2005 to 2007, he helped cofound the financial analysis platform at Palantir Technologies.

He attended Stanford University from 1999 to 2003, and graduated with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering. While in high school and college, he served as a software engineer intern at Sapient, TheMan.com, and Sun Microsystems.

Garry Tan (born March 21, 1981) is the co-founder of Initialized Capital. He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. He was also a partner at Y Combinator from 2011 to 2015.