# Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator

**Author:** The Social Radars
**Type:** Essay
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/JZ-garry-tan-president-and-ceo-of-y-combinator


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In this episode of The Social Radars, Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y
Combinator, about his path from turning down a job with Peter Thiel, to founding a YC-backed company in 2008, then
starting his own multi-billion dollar fund in 2011, and finally returning to run Y Combinator in 2023.

