Garry Tan is the CEO of Y Combinator. He founded Posterous (YC 2008, acquired by Twitter for ~$20M) and later rebuilt it as Posthaven. He co-founded Initialized Capital (now run by Brett Gibson). After a 13-year coding hiatus, he returned to building using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaude), shipping hundreds of thousands of lines of code while running YC full-time. He built Garry's List (political advocacy platform), G Stack (agentic engineering framework), and G Brain (open-source personal AI).
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Emergent demonstrates the new physics of AI-native companies: achieving $100M+ ARR with only 15 people by leveraging AI agents as a workforce rather than autocomplete, breaking historical revenue-per-employee records across all industries.
Retail exemplifies the AI-native company model: $60M annualized revenue with ~40 employees, validating that the fastest-growing YC founders treat AI as a workforce multiplier across all functions, not just coding.