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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Forbes Midas List (2018-2023), #6 on 2023 seed investor list
★Fortune's Top 100 Most Powerful People in Business (2024)
★San Francisco Power 100 by San Francisco Business Times
★Business Insider Top 100 Seed Investors
★CB Insights Top Angel Investor (2014)
★Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 Under 40
Notable Facts
→President & CEO of Y Combinator since January 2023, world's most prestigious startup accelerator
→Co-founder of Initialized Capital with $3.2B+ assets under management
→Early investor in Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport - portfolio worth $226 billion combined
→Co-founded Posterous (acquired by Twitter for $20 million)
→Early employee at Palantir Technologies, designed company logo
→728K+ Twitter followers, 268K YouTube subscribers
→Stanford Computer Systems Engineering graduate
→Active in San Francisco politics with $400K+ in political donations
→Controversial figure due to inflammatory social media posts about SF politicians
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