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Early stage investor and fund manager focused on the future of entertainment, creativity and technology as the Founding General Partner at Good Trouble Ventures and former Principal at Initialized Capital. COO and Chief Catalyst of The Troublemaker Lab and advisor and coach to founders and entrepreneurs. Twenty years in talent and culture executive leadership roles including Box, Stitch Fix, and the Burning Man Project, guiding teams through hyper-growth, IPOs, global scaling, and M&A. PeopleTech Partners (PTP) Advisor, angel investor + multiple time board member. Longtime creative artist and award-winning musician + mom to a young human.

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President & CEO of Y Combinator. Y Combinator funds hundreds of companies per year via web-based application and has an acceptance rate of less than 1%, lower than any other selective process of its kind. YC has funded 90 companies worth a billion dollars or more, each at the earliest possible stage (usually a few people even before launch), and about 10 to 20 companies per year that go through the program will go on to product market fit and become a Unicorn. Over $800B in market value has been created so far, and counting. Before becoming CEO, I was a partner at YC 2011-2015 and built major software including Bookface and Demo Day realtime video. I'm a designer, PM & engineer turned investor and helper to startups. Subscribe to my YouTube channel at youtube.com/garrytan Founder, board partner and advisor at Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that was earliest in Coinbase and Instacart. Previously managing partner where we grew it to $3.2B in assets under management and startups worth more than $200 billion in market value in 10 years. Forbes Midas List Top 100 Global VC 2019-2023, last at #6 in the world before returning to YC. Before that, I cofounded Posterous and helped build it to a world-class website used by millions. (Acquired by Twitter) I also cofounded the engineering team for Palantir Technology's quant finance analysis platform, and designed the current Palantir logo and wordmark. I love building things. Specialties: user-centered design, project management, software engineering, interaction design, visual design, entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, branding, design, technical architecture, scaling

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CEO @Doublezero, Former Investor @Initialized, engineer. Building with AI

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Partner at Andreessen Horowitz | Founder, product leader, investor

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CTO/Co-Founder at HomeVision

Hannah Chelkowski

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Early Stage Investor

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Don't leave me stranded here, I can't get used to this lifestyle.

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Partner at Initialized Capital