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Founder•3 days ago
The New Way To Build A Startup
In the AI era, startups aren't winning by hiring faster — they're winning by automating as many internal functions as possible. In this episode of Main Function, Garry breaks down how tiny teams are b...see more
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Founder•5 days ago
We're All Addicted To Claude Code
Wondering why your maker-turned-manager suddenly seems distracted in meetings? Maybe they're addicted to coding agents! In this episode of Lightcone, Calvin French-Owen — a co-founder of Segment and f...see more
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Founder•9 days ago
AI Powered Agencies
AI flips this model by letting firms use software internally to deliver finished work at higher margins, turning agencies into software-like businesses that can scale far beyond today’s service firms....see more
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Founder•10 days ago
Reindustrialize With Modern Metal M
Reindustrialize With Modern Metal Mills
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Founder•11 days ago
Make LLMs easy
Make LLMs easy
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Founder•12 days ago
Stablecoin Financial Services
Stablecoin Financial Services
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Founder•15 days ago
Large Spatial Models
Large Spatial Models
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Founder•16 days ago
Cursor for Product Managers
AI is great at writing code, but product success depends on deciding what to build. We think there’s an opportunity for an AI-native system focused on helping teams figure out what to build, not just ...see more
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Founder•17 days ago
How We Redesigned Our Website
In this special episode of Design Review, YC General Partner Aaron Epstein and YC Product Designer Eve Bouffard break down how they went about redesigning the YC homepage from the ground up. They’ll d...see more
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Founder•18 days ago
Infrastructure for Government Fraud
Infrastructure for Government Fraud Hunters
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Founder•19 days ago
Building The World's First Reusable
Stoke Space co-founders Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman explain what motivated them to leave comfortable jobs and take on a problem that had never been solved before - fully reusable rockets.
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Founder•about 1 month ago
The AI Economy Is Stabilizing
Jared Friedman reflects on one of his biggest surprises of 2025: how much the AI economy has stabilized. After a period of rapid, uncertain change in 2024, the ecosystem now feels more mature, with cl...see more
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Founder•about 1 month ago
Inside The Startup Building Reusabl
Stoke Space is racing to build the world's first fully reusable rockets that can launch, survive reentry, and fly again and again. In this episode of Hard Tech, YC’s Aaron Epstein sits down with Stoke...see more
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Founder•about 1 month ago
How To Get Your First Users
When you're starting out, it isn’t enough to just build a minimum viable product. You also need a minimum evolvable product - one that can adapt to the needs of those critical early customers. In th...see more
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Founder•about 2 months ago
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Uni
In just a few years, James Hawkins took PostHog from an idea hacked together right before YC's W20 deadline to a unicorn powering product analytics for thousands of teams. In this episode of Founder ...see more
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Founder•2 months ago
How Intelligent Is AI, Really?
ARC-AGI is redefining how to measure progress on the path to AGI - focusing on reasoning, generalization, and adaptability instead of memorization or scale. During this month's NeurIPS 2025 conference...see more
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Founder•2 months ago
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startu
Cursor Head of Design Ryo Lu has spent his career at the intersection of design and engineering—from building fan sites as a kid to designing products at Stripe, Asana, and Notion. Now he's rethinking...see more
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Founder•2 months ago
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Wer
Every major shift in consumer tech has a moment when it suddenly becomes accessible to millions. Michael Mignano helped spark one of those moments with Anchor, making podcast creation something anyone...see more
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Founder•2 months ago
Find a Pain Point Worth Solving
Billion dollar ideas are everywhere. Start by finding a painful, specific problem— one that really matters to someone you know— and solve it for them.
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Founder•3 months ago
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to
Spenser Skates has spent more than a decade building Amplitude from a YC startup into a public company, and in that time, he's had to reinvent himself just as much as the product. Joining the Lightco...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
Finding Opportunity in Outdated Rul
Many big shifts happen when outdated rules no longer match how the world works. The opportunity is in noticing where technology has outpaced the law — and building something that clearly benefits user...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
Inside The Startup Launching AI Dat
Starcloud recently made history by launching a satellite with an NVIDIA H100 into orbit — the first time a GPU that powerful has ever operated in space. It's the first step toward building AI data cen...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
Chase the Hard Problems
A hard technical problem can be a great moat. Just don’t hide behind the difficulty—stay close to customers while you build so know whether you’re solving the right problems.
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Founder•3 months ago
Founder Stories: Priya Khandelwal
For Priya Khandelwal and her company Nixo, the key to growing fast was being part of a community of founders solving tough problems together. She found that sense of momentum and shared purpose at YC...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
Founder Stories: Saurav Kumar
Saurav Kumar was studying CS at UIUC just a few months ago, surrounded by cornfields and lecture halls. Now he’s in San Francisco building Fleetline, a place where being ambitious and taking risks fe...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
AI Is Eating Logistics
Logistics is a multi-trillion-dollar industry that quietly powers the entire global economy — and it's shockingly manual. Ryan Petersen, founder & CEO of Flexport, joins the Lightcone to break down h...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
Founder Stories: Rishi Choudhary
Before YC, Rishi Choudhary was working a regular 9–5, frustrated by how slow things moved and fighting to build anything new. Now, as co-founder of Kastle (YC S24), he's able to finally build product...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
The Hard Part About Being Contraria
Some of the biggest breakthroughs, like OpenAI and SpaceX, started as ideas most people thought were impossible. But the best founders stay contrarian long enough to be right, learning from criticism...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
Founder Stories: Cathy Di
Five minutes before the deadline, Cathy Di applied to YC with an idea: Dedalus Labs. Months later, she's now running a company that's just raised $11M. The deadline to apply for the winter batch is t...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
The Startup Playbook for Hiring You
Most founders think hiring is about interviewing. But it's actually about selling. For Startup School, Juicebox co-founder & CEO David Paffenholz joins YC's Harj Taggar to share how early-stage found...see more
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Founder•3 months ago
The Line Between Software and Servi
Max Junestrand, founder of Legora, says AI is blurring the line between software and service. The best companies at the frontier won’t just sell tools—they’ll act like partners, helping clients win th...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
Founder Stories: Pablo Hansen
A year ago, Pablo was finishing his master's in AI. Today, he's building Keystone, a bug-triage platform for the modern enterprise. Through YC, he found a community of founders that helped him focus,...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
How Startups Can Win the Talent War
Most founders think hiring is about interviewing. But it's actually about selling. For Startup School, Juicebox co-founder & CEO David Paffenholz joins YC's Harj Taggar to share how early-stage found...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
Don't Just Check Off Boxes
Cursor co-founder and CEO Michael Truell's #1 piece of advice for builders: focus less on credentials and more on curiosity—build things you care about with people you like and respect.
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Founder•4 months ago
Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting &
Every founder faces moments where they’re not sure what to do next — such as how to go to market with AI products, when to pivot, and who to hire. In this episode of Office Hours, YC partners Pete, B...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
From dorm rooms to million-dollar c
You can just do things. And YC can help. Apply to W26 by November 10: http://ycombinator.com/apply
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Founder•4 months ago
Ask These Questions Before Starting
Jordan Fisher is the co-founder & CEO of Standard AI and now leads an AI alignment research team at Anthropic. In his talk at AI Startup School on June 17th, 2025, he frames the future of startups thr...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
Transformers Explained: The Discove
Nearly every modern AI model, from ChatGPT and Claude to Gemini and Grok, is built on the same foundation: the Transformer. In this video, YC's Ankit Gupta traces how AI learned to understand languag...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in
Jake Heller is the co-founder & CEO of Casetext, the AI legal startup behind CoCounsel, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650 million. In his talk at AI Startup School on June 17th, 2025, he...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
Early Decision for Students
Introducing Early Decision. For students who want to do a startup but also want to finish school first. Apply now, get funded the moment you're accepted, and do YC after you graduate. ycombinator.co...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
What Everyone Is Getting Wrong Abou
For years, we've heard two major narratives about AI. One predicting the end of human work, the other dismissing it as hype. The truth is more nuanced, and more hopeful. From radiology to software en...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
Billion-Dollar Unpopular Startup Id
Nine out of ten people might tell you you're crazy. The tenth might see what you see. Garry, Harj, Jared, and Diana talk about contrarian bets — the ideas that look impossible until they work. From U...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
Unpopular Ideas That Became Billion
Nine out of ten people might tell you you're crazy. The tenth might see what you see. Garry, Harj, Jared, and Diana talk about contrarian bets — the ideas that look impossible until they work. From U...see more
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Founder•4 months ago
Don’t Be Afraid to Talk About Price
If you can solve a real problem, ask customers what it’s worth—and disqualify the ones who aren’t ready or willing to buy.
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Founder•4 months ago
This Startup Is Trying To Delete 29
Paul Gross and his team at Remora are trying to do something that’s never been done before. They’re building mobile carbon capture devices for commercial trucks and trains. It's a system that captures...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
The Shortcut Rule
Be careful not to optimize for a single metric at the expense of everything else. You might hit the target but miss the point—real progress comes from keeping the bigger picture in mind.
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Founder•5 months ago
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Sc
Ever wonder what it actually takes to train a frontier AI model? Ankit Gupta, YC General Partner, sits down with Nick Joseph, Anthropic's Head of Pre-training, to explore the engineering challenges b...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
Technical Expertise is Now the Miss
In AI, the hardest part isn’t access to models—it’s knowing how to make them work reliably. The real edge comes from hands-on experience: building projects, debugging failures, and squeezing performan...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI St
In the early days of a startup, speed is the best moat. But once you build something people want, how do you maintain your position and defend against the competition? In this episode of Lightcone, we...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
The Future of Software Creation wit
Amjad Masad is the co-founder & CEO of Replit, now valued at $3B after a recent $250M Series C. He's spent nearly a decade making programming accessible to all—and with the rise of AI, that vision is ...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing legal AI startups in the world. In just...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
Now Is The Best Time To Build In Cr
We are entering the era of Fintech 3.0. Regulatory clarity, growing consumer adoption, and low-cost chains have paved the way for a golden age of building in crypto — and at YC, Base, and Coinbase we ...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups wi
Bob McGrew helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades. Bob was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir and was recently Chief Research Officer a...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In Th
For nearly two decades, Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie has been at the frontlines of how technology reshapes work—guiding the company through the rise of mobile, the cloud, and now the age of AI. ...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
Agency and Independence
In a world where AI follows instructions better than humans, the real value of college (and beyond) is learning agency and independence. Don’t just optimize for passing tests. Develop the ability to...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At
Michael Truell on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. At 24, Michael Truell has already built Cursor into one of the fastest-growing companies in AI coding, hitting $100M ARR in ju...see more
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Founder•5 months ago
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing legal AI startups in the world. In just...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing legal AI startups in the world. In just...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
OpenAI vs. Deepseek vs. Qwen: Compa
OpenAI recently released its first open-weights model since GPT-2, entering a field led by DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen. YC's Ankit Gupta breaks down everything you need to know about these top OSS mo...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
Where does your interest come from?
Some of the most enduring companies, like OpenAI and SpaceX, started not with a business plan, but with a hunch and genuine curiosity. Sometimes, that’s all it takes to attract the smartest people and...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
AI won’t make coding obsolete. It w
Just like spreadsheets became a basic skill for every job, coding is heading the same way. The founders who embrace this shift will build teams where everyone can code a little—and move much faster as...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder and CEO of Legora, one of the fastest-growing legal AI startups in the world. In just...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
Where does your interest come from?
Some of the most enduring companies, like OpenAI and SpaceX, started not with a business plan, but with a hunch and genuine curiosity. Sometimes, that’s all it takes to attract the smartest people and...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
Video Generation as a Primitive
Generative video is becoming a new computing primitive. When video is cheap, fast, and personalized, it won’t just change media—it’ll change shopping, games, communication, and more. We’re looking for...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the
Dylan Field on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Dylan Field co-founded Figma to bring the design process online and make it multiplayer. From a meme maker built on WebGL to a de...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
Intellectual Fearlessness
Dr. Fei-Fei Li looks for “intellectual fearlessness”—the courage to embrace hard problems and go all in. It’s a quality she’s learned from great innovators and one she values deeply in young people an...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
Anthropic Co-founder: Building Clau
Tom Brown co-founded Anthropic after helping build GPT-3 at OpenAI. A self-taught engineer, he went from getting a B-minus in linear algebra to becoming one of the key people behind AI's scaling break...see more
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Founder•6 months ago
Satya Nadella on Leadership
Successful leaders bring clarity, create energy, and solve over-constrained problems—at every stage.
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Founder•6 months ago
Using LLMs Instead of Government Co
The U.S. government spends $100B+ a year on consulting—most of it inefficient. With LLMs and political pressure to cut waste, there’s a huge opportunity to replace legacy consulting with AI-powered so...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
Retraining Workers for the AI Econo
The AI revolution needs more than researchers and engineers—it also needs electricians and welders for the physical buildout. We're looking to fund startups creating AI-powered vocational training for...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
Scaling and the Road to Human-Level
Jared Kaplan on June 16th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Jared Kaplan started out as a theoretical physicist chasing questions about the universe. Then he helped uncover one of AI’s mos...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
AI Native Enterprise Software
Salesforce and ServiceNow won by going all-in on the cloud before the incumbents could react. AI is the next wave—and it's just as big. The next generation of enterprise software won't just record wor...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
Brand Design Tips From Linear Found
For this episode of Design Review, YC’s Aaron Epstein is joined by Karri Saarinen, co-founder & CEO of Linear, one of the top designer-founders working today. Together, they'll review several sites fr...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
The Finance Startup Bringing Agenti
Brothers Chaz and Arnie Englander started Model ML after building and selling two YC companies. What began as a tool to help them analyze deals has grown into a full AI-powered workspace purpose-bui...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Syst
Multi-agent systems are powerful but hard to build. Think agentic MapReduce with thousands of subagents running in parallel. We're looking for folks who've felt the pain of scaling these systems and w...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI
Andrew Ng on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Andrew Ng has helped shape some of the most influential movements in modern AI—from online education to deep learning to AI entrepren...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That
Chelsea Finn on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. From MIT through her PhD at Berkeley, where she pioneered meta‑learning methods, and Google Brain, Chelsea Finn has built her ca...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
The Real Moat
What makes a great founder is deeply understanding a specific group of users and building software that truly works for them.
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Founder•7 months ago
Small Teams Will Build the Future
Sam Altman shares why the next decade will be defined by individuals and small teams getting more done than ever before. With lower coordination costs and better tools, he believes we’re on the verge ...see more
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Founder•7 months ago
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race
Aravind Srinivas on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Aravind Srinivas started Perplexity with one goal: to rethink how we search, browse, and interact with information online. In ...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is
A fireside with Dr. Fei-Fei Li on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason. Before the world had AI as we know it, s...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era
AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path. New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, sm...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The
Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures, has backed some of the most iconic consumer brands of the past two decades — from Warby Parker to Chime to Dollar Shave Club. In this conversation, she s...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets,
A fireside with Satya Nadella on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Satya Nadella started at Microsoft in 1992 as an engineer. Three decades later, he’s now Chairman & CEO, navigati...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
AI for Scientific Discovery
Sam Altman says he’s most excited to see AI accelerate scientific discovery over the next 10–20 years. He believes faster breakthroughs in science could lead to massive, long-term improvements in qua...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Many AI apps today are like the hor
Pete uses the term “AI horseless carriage” to describe how early AI products feel like old software with a new engine. It’s a pattern we’ve seen before—like the first mobile apps—and it takes time to ...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, C
A fireside with Sam Altman on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Sam Altman grew up obsessed with technology, broke into the Stanford mainframe as a kid, and dropped out to start hi...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changi
Andrej Karpathy's keynote on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Slides provided by Andrej: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0h1mkwfmV2PlekxDN8isMrDA5evc4wW/view?usp=sharing Chapter...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Powering the Future with Fusion
AI data centers are driving up America’s energy demand for the first time in a decade. Fusion could be the clean, safe, and abundant alternative—but can we make it work at scale? We look into what it ...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
In the AI era, the playbook is chan
Instead of “fail fast,” it’s about following your curiosity and building with the latest tech. Jared talks about why living at the edge of the future makes discovering great startup ideas much easie...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Supe
Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, joins Garry to talk about building one of the fastest-growing startups of all time—and why he's betting on a future beyond c...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligenc
A fireside with Elon Musk on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Before rockets and robots, Elon Musk was drilling holes through his office floor to borrow internet. In this candid t...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, T
Alexandr Wang started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster. It started as a simple API for human labor, but behind the scenes, he was tackling a much bigger problem: how to turn ...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
How To Design Better AI Apps
In this episode of The Breakdown, Tom and Dave are joined by fellow YC General Partner Pete Koomen to lay out a new vision for how AI should actually work: not as a chatbot bolted onto legacy software...see more
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Founder•8 months ago
AI for Personal Finance
Most people struggle with personal finance. LLMs can fix that—by offering personalized, unbiased advice at scale. Apply to YC Summer 2025 at https://ycombinator.com/apply.
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Founder•8 months ago
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