Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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Y Combinator Startup Podcast

by Y Combinator

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.

101 episodes
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1
Building A Global AI Startup From India
39:32 Mar 16, 2026
2
How To Build The Future: Max Hodak
53:20 Mar 9, 2026
3
How To Avoid AI Design Slop
37:26 Mar 6, 2026
4
The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence
19:45 Feb 27, 2026
5
The AI Agent Economy Is Here
23:21 Feb 21, 2026
6
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny
50:10 Feb 17, 2026
7
The New Way To Build A Startup
7:50 Feb 14, 2026
8
OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents
22:35 Feb 7, 2026
9
We're All Addicted To Claude Code
45:59 Feb 6, 2026
10
How To Get Your First Customers
5:41 Jan 14, 2026
11
Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets
15:43 Jan 8, 2026
12
What Surprised Us Most In 2025
30:22 Dec 22, 2025
13
How Intelligent Is AI, Really?
11:59 Dec 17, 2025
14
The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide
42:19 Dec 12, 2025
15
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn
38:46 Dec 10, 2025
16
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now
39:35 Nov 28, 2025
17
Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites
35:34 Nov 20, 2025
18
Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space
12:55 Nov 13, 2025
19
How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps
43:20 Nov 7, 2025
20
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups
39:24 Oct 28, 2025
21
Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
9:18 Oct 23, 2025
22
YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours
38:32 Oct 21, 2025
23
What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs
8:00 Oct 14, 2025
24
How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out
35:49 Oct 13, 2025
25
The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device
12:46 Oct 9, 2025
26
Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions
40:35 Oct 7, 2025
27
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
1:04:04 Oct 1, 2025
28
Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto
42:00 Sep 23, 2025
29
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era
40:27 Sep 16, 2025
30
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
42:01 Sep 12, 2025
31
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
50:42 Sep 8, 2025
32
Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students
27:55 Sep 3, 2025
33
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures
12:31 Aug 29, 2025
34
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)
45:25 Aug 26, 2025
35
The Sales Playbook for Founders | Startup School
18:38 Aug 15, 2025
36
Figma CEO Dylan Field: How AI Will Transform Design
40:36 Aug 8, 2025
37
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street
46:15 Jul 31, 2025
38
Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan
40:47 Jul 29, 2025
39
Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen
43:41 Jul 25, 2025
40
Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything
44:52 Jul 22, 2025
41
Replit CEO Amjad Masad: Coding Agents, Autonomy, and the Future of Work
35:50 Jul 22, 2025
42
John Jumper: AlphaFold and the Future of Science
27:12 Jul 15, 2025
43
Aravind Srinivas: The Race to Build the AI Browser of the Future
43:12 Jul 11, 2025
44
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI
43:57 Jul 10, 2025
45
François Chollet: The ARC Prize & How We Get to AGI
34:47 Jul 3, 2025
46
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
44:21 Jul 1, 2025
47
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products
35:46 Jun 27, 2025
48
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs
40:29 Jun 25, 2025
49
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware
42:44 Jun 21, 2025
50
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful
49:40 Jun 21, 2025
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