Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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.
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How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
Apr 29, 2026
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The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers
Apr 25, 2026
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The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company
Apr 24, 2026
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Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website
Apr 22, 2026
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The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
Apr 16, 2026
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This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads
Apr 6, 2026
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This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s
Mar 31, 2026
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How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI
Mar 27, 2026
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Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry
Mar 20, 2026
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Building A Global AI Startup From India
Mar 16, 2026
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The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak
Mar 9, 2026
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How To Avoid AI Design Slop
Mar 6, 2026
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The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence
Feb 27, 2026
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The AI Agent Economy Is Here
Feb 21, 2026
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Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny
Feb 17, 2026
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The New Way To Build A Startup
Feb 14, 2026
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OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents
Feb 7, 2026
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We're All Addicted To Claude Code
Feb 6, 2026
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How To Get Your First Customers
Jan 14, 2026
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Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets
Jan 8, 2026
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What Surprised Us Most In 2025
Dec 22, 2025
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How Intelligent Is AI, Really?
Dec 17, 2025
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The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide
Dec 12, 2025
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From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn
Dec 10, 2025
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The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now
Nov 28, 2025
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Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites
Nov 20, 2025
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Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space
Nov 13, 2025
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How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps
Nov 7, 2025
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From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups
Oct 28, 2025
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Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
Oct 23, 2025
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YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours
Oct 21, 2025
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What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs
Oct 14, 2025
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How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out
Oct 13, 2025
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The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device
Oct 9, 2025
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Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions
Oct 7, 2025
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Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
Oct 1, 2025
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Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto
Sep 23, 2025
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Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era
Sep 16, 2025
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The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
Sep 12, 2025
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The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
Sep 8, 2025
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Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students
Sep 3, 2025
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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures
Aug 29, 2025
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How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)
Aug 26, 2025
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The Sales Playbook for Founders | Startup School
Aug 15, 2025
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Figma CEO Dylan Field: How AI Will Transform Design
Aug 8, 2025
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The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street
Jul 31, 2025
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Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan
Jul 29, 2025
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Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen
Jul 25, 2025
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Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything
Jul 22, 2025
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Replit CEO Amjad Masad: Coding Agents, Autonomy, and the Future of Work
Jul 22, 2025
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