Harj Taggar is a Managing Director, Knowledge 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
17:14
Should you start a startup?
386K views
1 year ago
28:14
Inside the Group Partner Lounge: Top ways startups waste money
311K views
Over 1 year ago
28:33
How to find the right co-founder
117K views
Over 1 year ago
13:41
Inside the Group Partner Lounge: When to launch your startup
114K views
Over 1 year ago
19:45
Inside the Group Partner Lounge: Don't make these hiring mistakes
102K views
Over 1 year ago
21:53
Inside the Group Partner Lounge: Advantages of a first-time founder
89K views
Over 1 year ago
16:05
Inside the Group Partner Lounge: How to compete with Amazon and Google
89K views
Over 1 year ago
71:41
Building an engineering team
70K views
Over 1 year ago
13:14
Inside the Group Partner Lounge: Turning users into paid customers
57K views
Over 1 year ago
17:16
Inside the Group Partner Lounge: The ideal customer
48K views
Over 1 year ago
15:51
Inside the Group Partner Lounge: Investors said no, now what?
47K views
Over 1 year ago
2:30
Why do startups fail?
24K views
Over 1 year ago