Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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Y Combinator Startup Podcast
We help founders make something people want. The Y Combinator Podcast is where builders talk about building. From the earliest days of an idea to scaling a company that changes the world, YC partners and founders share real stories, lessons, and tactics from the frontlines.
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Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?
Paul Graham is a co-founder of Y Combinator. He's funded and mentored companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, DoorDash, and thousands of others through YC, an...
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
We're entering a new era of software where a single person, working with AI agents, can build products that previously required entire teams.In this e...
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
A 7-million parameter model outperforming models a thousand times its size on tasks like ARC Prize. That's what recursive reasoning unlocks.In this ep...
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis has had one of the most extraordinary careers in tech. He started as a chess prodigy and video game designer at 17 before getting a PhD...
The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers
Replit is the leading no-code app builder for consumers and enterprise, letting anyone with an idea build real, deployed software using natural langua...
The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company
AI isn't just making teams more productive. It's changing how companies should be built.
In this episode of Startup School, YC Partner Diana Hu...
Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website
Even the most successful websites eventually need a redesign. Take Stripe for example. After six years with the same homepage, they recently unveiled...
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
Physical Intelligence is building a foundation model that can control any robot to do any task — what the team describes as the GPT-1 moment for robot...
This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads
1 in 11 babies born in America this year will be screened by a genetic test that didn't exist a decade ago.Biotech startup BillionToOne turned a simpl...
This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman talks to Karine Mellata, co-founder of Variance (W23), who is coming out of s...
How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI
François Chollet has spent years asking a different question than most of the AI world. Instead of scaling what already works, he’s trying to understa...
Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry
Solugen is reinventing the trillion-dollar chemical manufacturing industry by combining biology and chemistry in a new way. In this episode of Hard Te...
Building A Global AI Startup From India
In this episode of The Lightcone, we talk with Mukund and Madhav Jha, the founders of Emergent - an AI platform that lets anyone build and ship produc...
How To Build The Future: Max Hodak
YC alum Max Hodak is the co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, a company building brain-computer interfaces that can restore sight.Science h...
How To Avoid AI Design Slop
As no-code design tools become more common, so do the pitfalls. You know what they look like - the purple gradients, annoying hover effects, sections...
The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence
Poetiq is a new startup founded by former DeepMind researchers that recently achieved a major jump on the ARC-AGI and Humanity's Last Exam benchmark b...
The AI Agent Economy Is Here
With the takeoff of OpenClaw and MoltBook, a new agent-driven economy is taking shape.
In this episode of the Lightcone, we took a...
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny
A very special guest on this episode of the Lightcone! Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, sits down to share the incredible journey of developi...
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 Mai...
OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents
You’ve probably already heard all about OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot). The viral sensation is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own...
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,...
How To Get Your First Customers
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 th...
Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets
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...
What Surprised Us Most In 2025
2025 was the year AI stopped feeling chaotic and started feeling buildable. In this Lightcone episode, the YC partners break down the surprises of the...
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...
The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide
Head of Design Ryo Lu helped transform Cursor from a feature-layer on top of VS Code into one of the world's leading AI code editors.He joins YC's Aar...
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn
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 fo...
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now
Every major shift in consumer tech has a moment when it suddenly becomes accessible to millions. Michael Mignano helped spark one of those moments wit...
Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites
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...
Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space
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 spac...
How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps
Most founders think hiring is about interviewing. But it's actually about selling.For Startup School, Juicebox co-founder & CEO David Paffenholz joins...
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups
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...
Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
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 G...
Startup Experts Answer Founder FAQ's
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/when to hire...
What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs
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...
How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out
Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, the issue tracking tool used by thousands of high-growth companies. Before Linear, he was the firs...
The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device
Paul Gross and his team at Remora are trying to do something that’s never been done before.
They're building mobile carbon capture...
Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions
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 Jun...
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
Ever wonder what it actually takes to train a frontier AI model?YC General Partner Ankit Gupta sits down with Nick Joseph, Anthropic's Head of Pre-tra...
Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto
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 buil...