Harj Taggar
Harj Taggar is a Managing Partner at Y Combinator, a position he has held since January 2023. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Triplebyte, a technical hiring platform, and co-founded Auctomatic, an online seller platform acquired by Live Current Media in 2008. He is also a co-founder of the venture capital firm Initialized Capital alongside Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian. Over his career at Y Combinator, he has advised more than 1,000 companies across 17 batches.
“Ravi Gupta with Instacart, Brian Armstrong with Coinbase, at least when the batch started, were single founders”
Source→“That's going to just on a like per account basis... double or triple like the revenue they make from a single customer”
Source→“maybe like the equity ownership is different or maybe the dynamic is just slightly different to the traditional way”
Source→“Harj Taggar, who built Triplebyte and observed thousands of early-stage engineering hires from the inside, is unequivocal about the sourcing hierarchy. Personal network first, by a margin that makes every other channel feel secondary.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.