Garry Tan
Co-Founder, Posterous.com

Garry Tan is a cofounder at Posterous, a Y Combinator-funded company that was founded and launched in June of 2008. Posterous.com is the easiest way to publish anything (text, photos, music, video, and documents of all kinds) to the web using email. Garry loves building online communities, hacking Rails, and all things design / user experience.

Garry was previously a founding team engineer for the hedge fund analytics platform at Palantir Technologies, a program manager for Windows Mobile, and built ecommerce sites during Web 1.0 as a software engineer for Sapient and Adjacency New Media. He met his cofounder Sachin Agarwal while studying Computer Systems Engineering at Stanford, where he graduated in 2003.

Sessions

10:00am Wednesday, 11/05/2008

TechHunch Thrifty: Web 2.0 Companies Started on a Hunch and a Prayer

Workshop
Location: Ralston

Guy Kawasaki (Alltop), Rashmi Sinha (SlideShare, Inc.), Jason Yan (Disqus), Tony Wright (RescueTime), Kevin Hale (Infinity Box Inc.), Garry Tan (Posterous.com), Jeff Vyduna (Poll Everywhere), Kelly Bennett (MightyQuiz), Drew Houston (Dropbox), Ryo Koyama (Yoics)

Watch the demos of ten companies that started in the worst of times with less than $50,000. This is the New, New, New Economy where $50,000, MySQL, Rails, PHP, WordPress, Twitter, and passion go a long, long way. Read more.

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