Episodes featuring Y Combinator
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Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase, talks with Y Combinator about how his open-source Firebase alternative on PostgreSQL grew to a $10B+ valuation by winning developer trust and becoming the default backend for AI apps.
Francois joins Y Combinator to explain why AI struggles to learn from small amounts of data and how world models that simulate future outcomes could close the gap with human learning.
Eve Bouffard, YC's head of design, shows how she uses AI agents and voice tools to explore dozens of design directions faster than traditional design software allows.
David Lieb of Y Combinator explains dot plots, a simple grid that shows each user's daily activity, and argues they reveal how people really use a product in ways aggregate metrics like DAUs hide.
Eddie Kim, Gusto's co-founder, explains how a five-person team built an AI product for small business owners that automates recurring workflows like payroll and time-off approvals in just 10 weeks.
Y Combinator partners Puneet and Arnav make the case that India is well placed to build the world's largest AI companies, with tactical advice for young founders.
Zynga founder Mark Pincus joins Y Combinator to argue that AI makes now the best time to build consumer products, even though investors are not funding them.
Max Kolysh from Y Combinator shares a tactical guide for landing your first 10 customers, arguing that personal outreach and unscalable effort beat automation tools early on.
Bryant Chou, co-founder of Webflow and founder of Ploy, joins Y Combinator to discuss how AI tools let experienced solo founders build and market products at a speed that once required whole teams.
Y Combinator partner John explains how founders should stop hunting for the perfect startup idea and instead commit to one, then validate it through deep customer conversations.
Groww founder Lalit Keshre talks with Y Combinator about building a consumer fintech company through obsessive product-market fit, zero commissions, and 10 years of organic growth.
Five AI researchers join Y Combinator to discuss recent papers on biology models, self-play learning, voice AI, formal verification, and how to build with agentic systems.
Vidit Aatrey explains how Meesho became India's top shopping app by pivoting its business model several times, always guided by close observation of real customers.
Pedro Franceschi, CEO of Brex, talks with Y Combinator about why leaders must treat AI as the default solution to every business problem, not just a productivity tool.
Mukund Jha joins Y Combinator to explain how he built Emergent, an AI no-code software platform, to $100M ARR in 9 months after 6 months of tinkering post-Dunzo.
Max Junestrand explains how Legora scaled from Y Combinator to $100M ARR in 18 months, covering sales, fundraising, and competing in the crowded AI legal tech space.
Conductor co-founder Charlie Holtz shows Y Combinator how he runs many AI coding agents at once, why he barely writes code by hand, and why he thinks code is now just sawdust from prompts.
Y Combinator lays out how to build an AI-native services company that rebuilds industries like tax, law, and healthcare from scratch using AI to achieve software-like margins.
Varun Vummadi of GigaML explains why he and his co-founder walked away from $550K job offers to build an AI customer support startup through Y Combinator.
Y Combinator's Paper Club brings together researchers and founders to discuss five AI papers on inference speed, robotics, world models, generalization theory, and data-efficient training.