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Garry Tan
Garry Tan is an American venture capitalist and executive who is the CEO of Y Combinator and a co-founder of Initialized Capital. He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. He was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, and previously a partner at Y Combinator.
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Nicolo Machiavelli
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