Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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Episodes (338)
How Intelligent Is AI, Really?
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The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide
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From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn
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The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now
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Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites
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Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space
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How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps
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From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups
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Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
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YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours
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What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs
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How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out
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The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device
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Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions
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Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
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Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto
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Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era
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The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
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The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
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Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to E...
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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures
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How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)
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The Sales Playbook for Founders | Startup School
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Figma CEO Dylan Field: How AI Will Transform Design
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The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street
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Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan
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Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen
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Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything
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Replit CEO Amjad Masad: Coding Agents, Autonomy, and the Future of Work
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John Jumper: AlphaFold and the Future of Science
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Aravind Srinivas: The Race to Build the AI Browser of the Future
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Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI
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François Chollet: The ARC Prize & How We Get to AGI
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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
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Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products
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Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthrough...
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Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware
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Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful
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Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
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Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Ma...
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Fusion Energy Is Tech's Next Big Unlock
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AI Apps Are Broken — Here's How To Fix Them
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How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job
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How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School
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How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup
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Why America Stopped Innovating - And How We Can Start Again
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What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game
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How to Build the Future: Tony Xu
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Customer Obsession Made Gusto A $9.6 Billion Company
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The Future Of Design With Figma's Dylan Field
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