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Gary Wu

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Gary Wu
CEO & Co-Founder of
Instaplay (2026)
About

Gary Wu is Co-Founder of Instaplay, a Y Combinator-backed AI-native social platform that lets anyone describe an idea and play it as a multiplayer game within minutes.

Before founding

Gary earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science concurrently from Harvard University through the AB/SM program, focusing on ML Fairness and Distributed Systems, and was recognized as a US Presidential Scholar.

Founder Insights

Gary previously co-founded an LLMOps startup focused on custom LLM evaluations, raising funding from Pear VC and Unusual Ventures, demonstrating a track record of building at the frontier of AI.

Experience

Before Instaplay, Gary served as an Associate Product Manager at Salesforce, where he spearheaded RL Environments and was Product Lead for Agentforce Tableau's agentic data analysis platform.

Scale & Impact

Instaplay has attracted 20,000+ creators and 100,000+ monthly players, enabling anyone to build and share multiplayer experiences from zombie FPS campaigns to interactive classroom lessons using a single text prompt.

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Gary Wu

Instaplay
Co-Founder
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Gary Wu

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Instaplay

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Media & Entertainment

Year Founded

2026

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Seed

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About

Gary Wu is Co-Founder of Instaplay, a Y Combinator-backed AI-native social platform that lets anyone describe an idea and play it as a multiplayer game within minutes.

Before founding

Gary earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science concurrently from Harvard University through the AB/SM program, focusing on ML Fairness and Distributed Systems, and was recognized as a US Presidential Scholar.

Founder Insights

Gary previously co-founded an LLMOps startup focused on custom LLM evaluations, raising funding from Pear VC and Unusual Ventures, demonstrating a track record of building at the frontier of AI.

Experience

Before Instaplay, Gary served as an Associate Product Manager at Salesforce, where he spearheaded RL Environments and was Product Lead for Agentforce Tableau's agentic data analysis platform.

Scale & Impact

Instaplay has attracted 20,000+ creators and 100,000+ monthly players, enabling anyone to build and share multiplayer experiences from zombie FPS campaigns to interactive classroom lessons using a single text prompt.

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