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Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator

The Social Radars

CHAPTER

The Importance of Community in YC

Y Combinator was founded by Sam Harris and Paul Graham in 2005. The idea for the batch format came from a sense of community among YC members, you say. You designed Bookface to help people sort of remember who was in the batch or put faces to names. "I named it Bookface because it was sort of a joke from the Halloween episode of The Office"

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