Garry Tan (@garrytan) — Twitter Score 812 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 812 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, placing him at rank #55 (top 0.1%) out of 493,952 accounts tracked on this platform, with 1,134,827 followers as of October 2026 and 75,862 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 1,201 accounts, totaling 3,371 mentions across the platform. His tracked portfolio includes Origin Protocol, GrowSF, Dorm Room Fund, Privy, NewLimit and Sol.

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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 3,919 founders, 1,048 angel investors, 994 influencers and 148 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Solana and Nikita Bier.