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Y Combinator President Garry Tan publishes a menacing tweet before deleting it, apologizing: “Die slow motherf*ckers”
Garry Tan, whose success in Silicon Valley has likely inspired many of the founders he mentors, is once again attracting attention for his posts on the
Tan also published a more formal apology to the Board of Supervisors, writing that “there is no place, no excuse and no reason for this type of speech and charged language in discourse. According to Tan, he learned to make web pages and landed his first job after “ cold calling the Yellow Pages.” He went on to graduate from Stanford, become a founder and, as an investor, has enjoyed staggering success owing to early bets that include Coinbase, to which he first wrote a check in 2012. Last fall, for example, on X, Tan initiated a heated exchange with a smaller startup accelerator program, Neo, which was founded in 2017, has raised $600 million from investors and funded 175 companies.
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