Startup accelerator named , a co-founder at seed investment firm , its next CEO and president.
Tan will replace , who said in a he is leaving the role at the end of the year.
���I am leaving YC, but I���m not actually the retiring type and am looking forward to some to-be-discovered adventures,��� wrote Ralston, who has been with Y Combinator since 2011.
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Tan is not new to Y Combinator. He co-founded , a blogging startup which was accepted into Y Combinator���s Summer 2008 program. In 2010, Tan joined the accelerator as a designer-in-residence and became an investor.
Just two years later Tan co-founded Initialized, which has an impressive list of early investments including , and .
Busy year
The announcement continues what has been a busy year for Y Combinator, whose portfolio is a who���s who of startup success stories such as and .
In May, the accelerator sent a letter to its portfolio companies warning them of the current venture pullback the industry is witnessing and the fact it may get worse.
���No one can predict how bad the economy will get, but things don���t look good, ��� YC wrote in the letter titled ���Economic Downturn.���
���The safe move is to plan for the worst,��� the accelerator wrote.
Y Combinator will shrink the number of startups within its accelerator for its Summer 2022 batch, according to a report earlier this��month. As first by , the summer class has nearly 250 companies, down 40% from the previous class which had 414 companies.
Related reading:
- Y Combinator Warns Startup Founders Of Economic Downturn: ���Plan For The Worst���
- Under The Hood: How Early-Stage Investor Initialized Spots Future Unicorns
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