Garry Tan

Garry Tan, Venture capitalist.

Garry Tan has been a guest on 11 podcasts across 15 episodes, most recently The a16z Show in August 2026. Each show is judged on its own.

Appearances

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Garry Tan - Unwrapping the Gift - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 267] · Mar 2022

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)
20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals · Apr 2019

20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage? · Dec 2016

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My First Million
Y Combinator CEO Shares How They Pick Winners, Advice For Founders + Lessons From Paul Graham | Garry Tan Interview · Oct 2024

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The Knowledge Project
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders · Apr 2025

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This Week in Startups
Garry Tan on lessons from past startup failures, power of community funnels, Alexis Ohanian's departure & more | Angel S5 E8 · Mar 2021

E1067: Garry Tan, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Initialized Capital, on dealing with downstream investors as a Seed-stage firm, software companies acting as governments, possibility of building IPO-level companies while fully-distributed & much more! · May 2020

E1013: Decade Wrap-Up Roundtable! Garry Tan, Initialized Capital & Zach Coelius, Coelius Capital on the biggest hits & misses of the past decade: Trump, Theranos, Streaming, Mindfulness, Crypto, Tesla, WeWork, Amazon Prime, Vaping & more! · Dec 2019

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No Priors
How YC fosters AI Innovation with Garry Tan · May 2024

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The a16z Show
Garry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition · Aug 2026

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The Peel with Turner Novak
Garry Tan on the Past, Present, and Future of YC · Feb 2026

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The Official SaaStr Podcast
SaaStr 332: Initialized Capital Co-Founder and Managing Partner Garry Tan on The New Normal · May 2020

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan · May 2026

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Uncapped with Jack Altman
Uncapped #43 | Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, and Jared Friedman from YC · Mar 2026

Uncapped #7 | Garry Tan from Y Combinator · Apr 2025

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Others on Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Others on The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

Others on My First Million

Others on The Knowledge Project

Others on This Week in Startups

Others on No Priors

Others on The a16z Show

Others on The Peel with Turner Novak

Others on The Official SaaStr Podcast

Others on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Others on Uncapped with Jack Altman