Harj Taggar
Harj Taggar is a Managing Director and Group Partner at YC. He was previously founder and CEO of Triplebyte (YC S15) and Auctomatic (YC W07), which was acquired by Live Current Media in 2008. He first joined YC as a partner in 2010, leaving in 2014 to start Triplebyte and rejoining in 2020. He graduated in 2006 from Oxford, where he studied Jurisprudence.
YC stats
- Harj has advised more than 1,000 companies over the course of 17 batches.
- 5 companies he's advised have gone public.
- He's worked with more than 20 YC unicorns including:
In the news
- TechCrunch: Former YC Partner Harj Taggar Is Building The New Technical Hiring Pipeline With TripleByte
- Insider: A former Y Combinator partner shares the questions he uses to evaluate all risks — including dropping out of law school to start his own business
- VentureBeat: Triplebyte raises $35 million to match engineers with employers
On Twitter
@harjtaggar
August 8, 2019
1/ Today I prepared for talking about common mistakes startups make (founding -> growth stages) by writing it in tweet form. I ramble too much when public speaking and hoped it would make the core ideas clearer in my mind and more concise. Think it worked. Here are the tweets
@harjtaggar
June 9, 2019
Having a vision for your startup doesn't mean predicting the future, it means having a framework for making decisions quickly. Without this, you move too slowly and die through indecision or arguing internally. The vision can change and optimally it does via expansiveness.
@harjtaggar
April 28, 2023
Talking fast is a tactic used by some people to sound smarter than they are. It's also how some extremely smart people talk naturally. The difference is the output of ideas. Extremely smart people who talk fast also output a lot of ideas per minute.
Videos
Should You Start A Startup?
YC Partner Harj Taggar's $500M mistake: A legendary startup advisor shares his lessons
Lessons from doing YC twice
Building an Engineering Team
How Harj Taggar Became a YC Partner