Garry Tan (@garrytan) — Twitter Score 805 out of 1000

Garry Tan is the President and CEO at Y Combinator, co-founder of Initialized Capital, Posterous, and Posthaven, and founder of Garry's List. He also works at Initialized Capital as a strategic advisor and serves as board director of GrowSF. Garry Tan's Twitter Score is 805 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #67 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform, with 932,001 followers as of July 2026 and 74,275 posts to date.

Garry Tan's most prominent crypto investment is Coinbase. While serving as a Y Combinator partner, he wrote Coinbase's first seed check in 2012 and, as Forbes reported, quietly ranked Brian Armstrong with an infinite score in YC admissions software to ensure Coinbase, then called Bitbank, was accepted into the Summer 2012 YC batch. Initialized Capital's combined seed-stage investment in Coinbase totaled $300,000; at Coinbase's April 2021 direct listing, Initialized held a 0.8% stake valued at $680 million. After that listing, Tan told TechCrunch he was holding the vast majority of his Coinbase shares, saying he was "super long on both crypto and Coinbase." He appeared on the Forbes Midas List from 2018 through 2022, with Coinbase cited among his signature investments. Initialized was also the first seed investor and largest institutional stockholder in Bison Trails before Coinbase acquired the blockchain infrastructure company in January 2021. The firm's crypto portfolio companies include Coinbase, Bison Trails, CoinTracker, Talos, and TRM Labs.

Garry Tan became President and CEO of Y Combinator in January 2023, returning after co-founding Initialized Capital and having previously served as a YC partner from 2010 to 2015. In March 2023 he shut down the YC Continuity growth fund and consolidated follow-on investing under YC group partners. Forbes reported in March 2024 that Y Combinator under Tan was raising $2 billion across three new funds covering startup batches and follow-on investments. Garry Tan has been mentioned by 982 accounts, totaling 3,006 mentions across the platform. His tracked portfolio includes Origin Protocol, Privy and NewLimit.

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Garry Tan draws a broad following across venture capital, crypto, and the startup world. The accounts that follow Garry Tan include 3,361 founders, 717 angel investors, 1,320 influencers and 191 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Erik Voorhees, Marc Andreessen and Solana.