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.
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 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.
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.
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