Sachin Agarwal, Garry Tan


Sachin Agarwal, Garry Tan

As more individuals have the need to share material online with others, developers continue to come up with new ways to post items. Posterous allows users to post things online using email. It allows a member to share text, audio, photos, and other files. The site's developers, Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan join Phil and Scott to talk about how the service was developed.

They review the architecture of the process, including the security methods in place to protect people. They also review their business model as well as how they plan to move forward.


Sachin Agarwal spent 6 years working on Final Cut Pro at Apple, Inc. He loves taking photos and is an avid blogger. He started Posterous.com to create an easier way to blog and share photos on the internet. Sachin graduated from Stanford University in 2002 with a degree in Computer Science.

Garry Tan is a designer and engineer. Prior to Posterous he cofounded the financial analysis platform at Palantir Technologies and was a PM at Microsoft for Windows Mobile. He graduated from Stanford in Computer Systems Engineering in 2003.

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