Cofounder at Posterous.com - Dead simple blogs by email.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Cofounder at Posterous.com
- Past
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- Interaction Designer at Rearden Commerce
- Finance Product Co-creator at Palantir Technologies
- Program Manager at Microsoft
- Analyst Intern at Sun Microsystems
- Software Developer Intern at TheMan.com
- Analyst Intern at Sapient
- Education
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- Stanford University
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Garry Tan’s Summary
I'm a cofounder at Posterous.com. We're dead simple blogs by email. Email post@posterous.com, attach photos, video, music, documents and files of any sort, and we'll reply with your new website online.
Previously, I cofounded the engineering team for Palantir Technology's quant analysis platform, now deployed at one of the most successful global macro hedge funds in the world.
I've also co-authored five patents issued around data synchronization, quantitative analysis of financial time series, and online shopping user experience.
I love building things.
Garry Tan’s Specialties:
user-centered design, project management, software engineering, interaction design, visual design, entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, branding, design, technical architecture, scaling
Garry Tan’s Experience
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Cofounder
Posterous.com
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Dead simple posting of everything online using email. Attach documents, photos, music, video, and files of any kind and we'll transcode it to the most web friendly format and host it for you too. Autopost to facebook, twitter, flickr, and all your blogs.
Launched in July of 2008 and now averages over 13 million pageviews per month, growing 30% month on month.
We've raised 740k in funding from Y Combinator, and a dozen top angels in Silicon Valley including Satish Dharmaraj (founder of Zimbra), Eric Hahn (former CTO of Netscape), Mitch Kapor (founder of Lotus), Bill Lee (founder of Remarq), Peter Barrett (creator of the Cinepak codec), Bill Warner (founder of Avid Technologies), Guy Kawasaki, Tim Ferriss (author of the 4 Hour Workweek) and XG Ventures.
"What might be the simplest blogging platform to date." --Michael Arrington, Techcrunch
"In terms of making things really dead simple Posterous beats every other service or app I have ever used. We can learn from them." -- Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon
"...already making Tumblr seem archaic..." --Newsweek
"The quickest and easiest setup I've ever seen." --Huffington Post -
Interaction Designer
Rearden Commerce
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2007 — June 2008 (9 months)
Design and conceptualize product designs for personalization, widgets, and mobile projects.
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Finance Product Co-creator
Palantir Technologies
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Defined product vision and design features for 14 engineers working on a next-generation financial analysis platform, now actively deployed to one of the world’s most successful global macro hedge funds.
Interaction design and product management including brainstorming, wireframes, composite creation, and detailed feature-level specifications for the core features of the v1 product.
Manage development process from feature inception, design, development, QA and deployment.
Develop frontend prototype and production Java code. Heavily customized Java Swing libraries to build an app indistinguishable from native Windows application user experience.
Creative director for user experience, corporate branding, marketing, and web presence. -
Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 3 months)
Program management of ActiveSync 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and Windows Vista releases of Windows Mobile synchronization and device management software.
Prioritize, design, define and specify features and application behavior.
Coordinated and worked closely with development, test, user research, user assistance, interaction design, planning and marketing teams.
Cross-team collaboration with Windows Media Player, Windows Portable Devices, and Windows Shell UX teams, negotiating feature requests and delivery dates for cross-team features. -
Analyst Intern
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — January 2003 (8 months)
Analyst intern for Demand Creation Systems IT, developing Java-based web application for resource planning from design to implementation.
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Software Developer Intern
TheMan.com
(Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — September 2000 (4 months)
Designed and implemented custom online store content management system, streamlining time-to-market for new products from a manual process of several days to just minutes and mouse clicks.
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Analyst Intern
Sapient
(Public Company; SAPE; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 8 months)
Worked during high school and college, part time during school, full time during breaks.
Web application development for clients such premiere brands as Caterpillar, PowerBar, Specialized Mountain Bikes, Esprit, and Virgin Megastore.
Perl web application development, linux administration, and build system integration.
Garry Tan’s Education
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Stanford University
BS , Computer Systems Engineering , 1999 — 2003
President of the Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) at Stanford University, managing a team of 40 officers, fundraising, recruiting, and incubation of new student group projects. Developed programs for ASES Summit, bringing together 40 top students from across the Asia Pacific for sessions with Silicon Valley leaders on entrepreneurship.
Project lead for a team of 5 consultants examining new markets for Cisco Systems. Stanford Consulting is a pre-professional student group that helps students get hands-on experience with management consulting methods and practices.
First-authored published research on cross-cultural effects on input modality preferences in CHI2003 in conjunction with Stanford Mass Communications department and NHK Japan.- Activities and Societies:
- Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society - Stanford Chapter, Stanford Consulting
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Garry Tan’s Interests:
photography, industrial design, graphic design, independent film, DJing
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Stanford University
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Posterous
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