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.
Episodes (338)
Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders
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The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew
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Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else
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Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
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Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
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Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
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Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed
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How To Design In The Agent Era
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Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence
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Building the First Data Centers in Space
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Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"
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Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"
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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
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Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”
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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban
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Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"
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Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code
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Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA
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World Models, Explained
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How To Better Understand Your Users
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Why Domain Experts Are Winning In The Age Of AI
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How To Pick A Startup Idea
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"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"
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How to Build an AI-Native Services Company
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How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company
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How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
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Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?
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Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
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Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
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How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
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The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers
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The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company
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Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website
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The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
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This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads
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This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s
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How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI
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Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry
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Building A Global AI Startup From India
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The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak
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How To Avoid AI Design Slop
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The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence
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The AI Agent Economy Is Here
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Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny
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The New Way To Build A Startup
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OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents
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We're All Addicted To Claude Code
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How To Get Your First Customers
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Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets
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What Surprised Us Most In 2025
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