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Y Combinator Startup Podcast — 309 episodes · page 1 of 4
Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics
The State of Startups in 2026
8 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales
Open Models Change The Economics of AI
Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders
The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew
Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else
Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed
How To Design In The Agent Era
Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence
Building the First Data Centers in Space
Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"
Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"
Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"
Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA
World Models, Explained
How To Better Understand Your Users
Why Domain Experts Are Winning In The Age Of AI
How To Pick A Startup Idea
"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"
How to Build an AI-Native Services Company
How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers
The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company
Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads
This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s
How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI
Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry
Building A Global AI Startup From India
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak
How To Avoid AI Design Slop
The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence
EThe AI Agent Economy Is Here
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny
EThe New Way To Build A Startup
OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents
EWe're All Addicted To Claude Code
EHow To Get Your First Customers
EInside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets
EWhat Surprised Us Most In 2025
How Intelligent Is AI, Really?
The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now
Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites
Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space
How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups
Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours
What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs
How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out
The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device
Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)
The Sales Playbook for Founders | Startup School
Figma CEO Dylan Field: How AI Will Transform Design
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street
Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan
Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen
Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything
Replit CEO Amjad Masad: Coding Agents, Autonomy, and the Future of Work
John Jumper: AlphaFold and the Future of Science
Aravind Srinivas: The Race to Build the AI Browser of the Future
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI
François Chollet: The ARC Prize & How We Get to AGI
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Matters
Fusion Energy Is Tech's Next Big Unlock
AI Apps Are Broken — Here's How To Fix Them
How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup
Why America Stopped Innovating - And How We Can Start Again