Y Combinator
India Can Create The Largest AI Companies
Y Combinator partners and former founders discuss how India's technical talent and the global nature of AI are creating an unprecedented opportunity for Indian startups to build the world's largest AI companies and compete globally.
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It
Zynga founder Mark Pincus argues that while consumer products are currently "uninvestable," the advent of AI agents presents an unprecedented opportunity to build new "internet treasures" and reinvent existing services, despite the current high cost of advanced AI compute.
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here
Webflow co-founder Bryant Chou introduces Ploy, an AI-powered platform that democratizes marketing and growth by transforming old websites into modern, SEO-optimized, and agent-friendly business brains in minutes.
Groww: If Your Customers Don't Love It or Hate It, You've Already Lost
Learn how Groww, a leading Indian fintech, achieved astounding organic growth by obsessing over customer needs, embracing transparency, and delaying monetization to build a product people truly love.
5 Papers That Show Where AI Research Is Heading Right Now
This Y Combinator session explores five cutting-edge AI research papers, revealing advancements in AI for biology, self-play for LLMs, real-time voice agents, formal math verification, and agentic programming workflows.
How Meesho Became India’s Biggest Shopping App
Meesho's founder reveals how relentless customer obsession and a willingness to "kill" successful products enabled the company to pivot from WhatsApp-based social commerce to India's #1 direct-to-consumer shopping app, and their vision for AI-driven e-commerce.
The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer
Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi argues that the CEO must be the Chief AI Officer, driving a fundamental re-founding of the company's identity and processes around AI, rather than merely layering AI onto existing structures.
Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More | YC Paper Club
This YC Paper Club session explores cutting-edge AI research, from accelerating large language model inference and building robust world models for robotics to understanding deep learning generalization and optimizing pre-training under data constraints.
Inside YC's AI Playbook
Y Combinator's General Partner Pete Kumman reveals how YC transformed into an AI-native organization by building a shared organizational brain, enabling superintelligence through a unified data context and a self-improving agent infrastructure.
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
Eric Ries, author of 'The Lean Startup,' reveals how companies can build 'governance fortresses' to protect their core mission from the corrosive forces of shareholder primacy and conventional 'best practices,' ensuring long-term value creation.
Thin Harness, Fat Skills: The New Way To Build Software
Gary Tan, YC CEO, details how he shipped hundreds of thousands of lines of code in months after a 13-year hiatus, leveraging AI agents and a "thin harness, fat skills" approach to achieve 400x productivity.
How Razorpay Became India’s Largest Payments Company
Harshil Mathur, co-founder of Razorpay, details the company's path from a YC-backed startup to India's largest payments platform, highlighting critical pivots, the strategic advantage of regulated markets, and the power of customer trust.
Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI
This episode explores how recursion, applied at inference time, is emerging as a powerful scaling law in AI, enabling models to achieve advanced reasoning capabilities with significantly fewer parameters than large language models.
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis details the missing pieces for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the strategic role of smaller AI models, and how AI will transform scientific discovery, urging founders to combine AI with other deep tech.
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future
Replit's CEO Amjad Masad details how AI is transforming software development, enabling 'AI-native developers' to build complex applications with natural language, and reshaping future companies into lean operations focused on 'builders' and 'salespeople'.
How Stripe Built Their New Website
Stripe's Head of Design, Katie Dill, details the strategic redesign of their homepage, emphasizing how business evolution, user experience, and thoughtful integration of AI shaped a sophisticated, engaging, and high-performing website.
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
Physical Intelligence is pioneering general-purpose robotics, leveraging cloud-hosted AI models and cross-embodiment data to enable a 'Cambrian explosion' of vertical robotics companies.
This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale
Variance, an AI startup, emerged from three years of stealth with a $21 million Series A to reveal how its AI agents automate complex fraud and compliance reviews for Fortune 500 companies and marketplaces, replacing slow human processes with self-healing, dynamic systems.
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI
François Chollet, creator of Keras and the ARC AGI benchmark, details his lab NDIA's pursuit of optimal, symbolic AI, arguing current LLM scaling is insufficient for true AGI and predicting AGI by early 2030s.
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders
Emergent, a YC-backed AI platform, has enabled 7 million apps in 8 months by empowering non-technical users to build production-ready software, challenging traditional SaaS and developer roles.
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces
Max Hodak, co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, details how his company is restoring sight with a tiny retinal implant and pioneering biohybrid brain interfaces, signaling a paradigm shift in medicine and human capability.
Common Mistakes With Vibe Coded Websites
AI design tools simplify website creation but often lead to generic, unoriginal, and distracting user experiences if founders don't apply critical design thinking and intentionality.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, reveals how Anthropic built a 1000x productivity tool by embracing emergent AI capabilities, constant iteration, and a 'build for the model six months from now' philosophy.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code
AI coding agents like Claude Code are revolutionizing software development by enabling unprecedented speed and debugging capabilities, fundamentally shifting developer roles towards 'manager mode' and prioritizing bottoms-up distribution.
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