Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Episodes

• How To Avoid AI Design Slop

  6 Mar 2026 00:37:26

• The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence

  27 Feb 2026 00:19:45

• The AI Agent Economy Is Here

  21 Feb 2026 00:23:21

• Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny

  17 Feb 2026 00:50:10

• The New Way To Build A Startup

  14 Feb 2026 00:07:50

• OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents

  7 Feb 2026 00:22:35

• We're All Addicted To Claude Code

  6 Feb 2026 00:45:59

• How To Get Your First Customers

  14 Jan 2026 00:05:41

• Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets

  8 Jan 2026 00:15:43

• What Surprised Us Most In 2025

  22 Dec 2025 00:30:22

• How Intelligent Is AI, Really?

  17 Dec 2025 00:11:59

• The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide

  12 Dec 2025 00:42:19

• From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn

  10 Dec 2025 00:38:46

• The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now

  28 Nov 2025 00:39:35

• Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites

  20 Nov 2025 00:35:34

• Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space

  13 Nov 2025 00:12:55

• How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps

  7 Nov 2025 00:43:20

• From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups

  28 Oct 2025 00:39:24

• Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution

  23 Oct 2025 00:09:18

• YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours

  21 Oct 2025 00:38:32

• What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs

  14 Oct 2025 00:08:00

• How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out

  13 Oct 2025 00:35:49

• The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device

  9 Oct 2025 00:12:46

• Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions

  7 Oct 2025 00:40:35

• Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI

  1 Oct 2025 01:04:04

• Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto

  23 Sep 2025 00:42:00

• Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era

  16 Sep 2025 00:40:27

• The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad

  12 Sep 2025 00:42:01

• The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew

  8 Sep 2025 00:50:42

• Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students

  3 Sep 2025 00:27:55

• GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures

  29 Aug 2025 00:12:31

• How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)

  26 Aug 2025 00:45:25

• The Sales Playbook for Founders | Startup School

  15 Aug 2025 00:18:38

• Figma CEO Dylan Field: How AI Will Transform Design

  8 Aug 2025 00:40:36

• The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street

  31 Jul 2025 00:46:15

• Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan

  29 Jul 2025 00:40:47

• Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen

  25 Jul 2025 00:43:41

• Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything

  22 Jul 2025 00:44:52

• Replit CEO Amjad Masad: Coding Agents, Autonomy, and the Future of Work

  22 Jul 2025 00:35:50

• John Jumper: AlphaFold and the Future of Science

  15 Jul 2025 00:27:12

• Aravind Srinivas: The Race to Build the AI Browser of the Future

  11 Jul 2025 00:43:12

• Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI

  10 Jul 2025 00:43:57

• François Chollet: The ARC Prize & How We Get to AGI

  3 Jul 2025 00:34:47

• Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI

  1 Jul 2025 00:44:21

• Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products

  27 Jun 2025 00:35:46

• Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs

  25 Jun 2025 00:40:29

• Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware

  21 Jun 2025 00:42:44

• Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful

  21 Jun 2025 00:49:40

• Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

  19 Jun 2025 00:39:31

• Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Matters

  11 Jun 2025 00:37:28