Harj Taggar
founder, entrepreneur, and investor
Harj Taggar (born 1984 or 1985) is an entrepreneur and investor. In 2007, he co-founded Auctomatic, a platform for online sellers, and in 2015, he co-founded Triplebyte, a technical hiring platform designed to assess the skills of those looking for jobs as software engineer regardless of background.
Taggar was also the first non-founder Partner at the startup accelerator, Y Combinator, having first joined in 2010. After co-founding and leading Triplebyte for several years, he returned as a Group Partner in 2020. He is also an angel investor, having co-founded Initialized Capital with Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian.
Education
Taggar attended the University of Oxford's law school for a few years. In 2006, Taggar left law school in order to move to Silicon Valley and follow through on a business idea he had which would eventually become Auctomatic.
Career
In 2007, Taggar co-founded Auctomatic, a platform for online sellers to manage auctions and marketplace listings online, with his brother Kulveer as well as Patrick Collison and John Collison. It was on-boarded to Y Combinator that same year. Since Taggar and his co-founders were "non-technical," Y Combinator accepted them with the condition that one of them learned programming; Taggar was the one who eventually learned.
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