Garry

Garry Tan, whose success in Silicon Valley has likely inspired many of the founders he mentors, is once again attracting attention for his posts on the social platform X. On Friday night, the Y Combinator president, investor, and former entrepreneur, published a post that might have prompted some to wonder if his X account was hacked. Wrote Tan, addressing seven San Francisco supervisors who oversee the delivery of local government services: “Fuck Chan Peskin Preston Walton Melgar Ronen Safai Chan as a label and…

Garry Tan, president at Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator, said the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the US is an 'extinction level event' for startups and will set startups and innovation back by 10 years or more. Y Combinator, popularly known as YC, has been an early investor in firms like Stripe, Airbnb and others. Its portfolio firms work closely with the SVB which has now been taken over by the US government. Razorpay, Zepto, Meesho are among its biggest India portfolio firms."BIG TECH will not care about…

| The earliest notice that I can find of the sale of Garry Trudeau Doonesbury art is the 1977 silent auction for a Sunday strip featuring the character Duke for over $1000 at a benefit auction mentioned in the Los Angeles Free Press.  Doonesbury was already a vital part of the landscape of political and cultural commentary by then, about seven years after its debut as a syndicated daily on October 26, 1970.  Trudeau took the rudimentary steps towards the comic which would become Doonesbury in Spring 1967, tinkering with…

| Garry Leach, co-creator of the modern-day Miracleman, died two months ago, at the age of 67. Today, one of his favourite comic book stores, Gosh Comics in Soho, London, for whom he designed their original logo, hosted his estate sale. Gosh Comics stated; A voracious comics fan, over the years Garry amassed a huge collection of books and comics. On Sunday May 29th, we will be hosting a special one-day Estate Sale of Garry's collection to help raise money for his Estate. From 10.30am – 7.00pm our tables upstairs will be…