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Harj Taggar

Harj Taggar

Harjeet Taggar (born June 8, 1985) is a technology entrepreneur based out of San Francisco, California. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Triplebyte and was previously a Partner at Y Combinator . [0] [16]

Early Life & Education

Harj Taggar grew up in London and attended Burnham Grammar School . He later graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence. [17] [0]

Career

Building an Engineering Team by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar

Building an Engineering Team by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar

Harjeet Taggar of Y Combinator at Disrupt NYC

Harjeet Taggar of Y Combinator at Disrupt NYC

After graduating from Oxford, Harj Taggar co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 with his cousin Kulveer Taggar and Patrick Collison. Auctomatic built an online e-commerce software to simplify the selling experience for merchants. The company raised money from angel investors including Paul Graham, Paul Buchheit and Chris Sacca. Auctomatic was also funded by Y Combinator. In 2008, Auctomatic was acquired by Live Current Media, Inc for $5 million. [19] [10] [8] [0]

After Auctomatic was acquired by Live Current Media, Taggar became the Director of Product Management at Live Current Media.

He led the development of the cricket.com property.

Originally there was no product on the domain, with a team of three people he built out a fantasy cricket game, news aggregation service and live score feeds.

In under a year Taggar and his team built the site up to just under 1 million monthly unique visitors and 10 million monthly page views.

The site was also generating approximately $30,000 a month in revenue with engagement stats being particularly impressive, the average time spent on the site per visit was over 10 minutes.

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In 2010, Taggar became a Partner at Y Combinator . He was the first partner brought on to Y Combinator since its founding. He helped YC startups with product, fundraising, business development and hiring advice. He reviewed thousands of funding applications and interviewed hundreds of companies. He also helped Y Combinator scale from 20 startups per batch to over 100 startups per batch. [11] [0]

From 2012-2015, Taggar invested in the first seed rounds of Instacart, Coinbase, Opendoor and Zenefits. He helped these firms with getting their first products launched, getting early users/customers, fundraising, co-founder management and general problem solving. [0]

In 2015, Taggar co-founded Triplebyte, a hiring platform company that uses machine learning to help technology companies identify and recruit talented engineers. He founded the company with Guilaume Luccisano and Ammon Bartram, who previously founded Socialcam which was acquired by Autodesk in 2012 for $60 million. [0]

References

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Citation Linklinkedin.comHarj Taggar on LinkedIn
Feb 6, 2019, 2:01 AM
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Citation Linkfacebook.comHarjeet Taggar 's Primary Facebook page.
Sep 25, 2015, 2:49 AM
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Citation Linktwitter.comHarj on Twitter.
Sep 25, 2015, 2:50 AM
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Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linktriplebyte.comhttp://triplebyte.com
Mar 28, 2016, 7:31 PM
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Citation Linknewsweek.com"Levy: Take the Millions Now – The Daily Beast"
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linknriinternet.com"Harjeet Tagger & Kulveer Tagger-Two UK NRI cousins sold online service- web site for 5 million dollars"
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linkgrowingbusiness.co.uk"Auctomatic founders sell to Live Current"
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linkox.ac.uk"Graduate entrepreneurs sell business for millions – University of Oxford"
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linktelegraph.co.uk"UK software stars conduct mission to woo Silicon Valley"
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linkrediff.com"Oxford: Two Indians turn millionaires overnight"
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linktechcrunch.comY Combinator Names First New Partners Since 2005: Paul Buchheit And Harj Taggar
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linkforbes.comHarj Taggar on the Forbes
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linkyoutube.com"Harjeet Taggar on CNN – Quest Means Business"
Jul 13, 2016, 4:50 PM
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Citation Linkharjtaggar.comHarjeet Taggar's official website
Nov 18, 2015, 2:25 AM
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Citation Linkblog.harjtaggar.comHarjeet Taggar's blog
Nov 18, 2015, 2:26 AM
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Citation Linktechcrunch.comTriplebyte has raised more money for its “background blind” tech recruiting platform
Feb 6, 2019, 1:24 AM
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Citation Linkfacebook.comHarjeet Taggar on Facebook
Feb 6, 2019, 1:44 AM
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Citation Linklinkedin.comHarjeet Taggar on LinkedIn
Feb 6, 2019, 1:54 AM
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Citation Linktechcrunch.comCommunicate Acquires Y Combinator Startup Auctomatic, Unveils New Business Strategy
Feb 7, 2019, 12:46 AM