Top 100 CEOs · United States
Garry Tan
Y Combinator 
- Score
- 8,5190 today
- Rank
- 85/197 ↓38
- over 90 days
- −220−2.4%
Garry Tan is the President & CEO of Y Combinator, a designer, engineer, and investor in early-stage startups. He shares insights on technology, business, and policy, particularly around AI, startups, and urban development in San Francisco. His content includes political commentary, technical discussions, and advocacy for housing and policy reform.
Data as of Oct 25, 2026.
The raw numbers · last 90 days
- Median views
- 85.2K
- per post
- Median engagements
- 879
- per post
- Posts
- 303
- over 90 days
- Followers
- 1.9M
- all scored platforms
What drives the score
Percentiles 0–100 against all tracked creators.
- Reach · 30%91
Average views per post over 90 days
- Engagement · 30%80
Average reactions per post
- Audience · 30%97
Total followers, relative to population
- Consistency · 10%100
Posting frequency (25 posts / 90 days = 100)
Platforms
1.9M total followers
| Platform | Followers | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram@garrytan | 81.4K | 5,600t5 |
| TikTok@garrytan | 1.6K | 34t10 |
| YouTube@Garry Tan | 285K | 2,409t9 |
| X@garrytan | 1.1M | 9,302t1 |
| LinkedIn@garrytan | 350.9K | 9,073t1 |
| Facebook@garry | 10K | not scored |
| Threads@garrytan | 23.5K | not scored |
Last 30 days
Tan's top posts
- X · 25 days ago#1
Pretty wild the woman in this video is a realtime generated agent
GTGarry Tan722.8K views3.9K engagements
- X · 24 days ago#2
True 5 years ago True today
GTGarry Tan223K views3.7K engagements
- X · 20 days ago#3
You can basically work with agents to write markdown skills and put it on a cron job and do almost every useful type of knowledge work now
GTGarry Tan442.8K views3.3K engagements
- X · 14 days ago#4
Be profitable and run your company with maximal agentic loops You don’t need to sell more of your co anymore $10M profit per year reinvested is like an annual Series A no dilution The best startups do this now. No whi…
GTGarry Tan310.9K views3K engagements
- X · 15 days ago#5
Replacing LLM calls with deterministic code is a no brainer and also results in better code that better matches what users want
GTGarry Tan239.8K views2.9K engagements
- X · 14 days ago#6
There are only two winning positions in foundation models. The absolute best. Or the best for the cheapest.
GTGarry Tan86.9K views2.7K engagements
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