Y Combinator
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Sam Altman on How to Start a Startup in the AI Era: Exponentials, Chaos, Compute Bottlenecks, and the Fight Against AI Authoritarianism
More than a decade after his famous Stanford lectures on how to start a startup, Sam Altman sits down for a wide-ranging conversation about what has changed. His…
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OpenCode CEO Jay V on 20x Growth in 6 Months: 13 Million Users, 7 Trillion Tokens a Day, the Anthropic Block That Backfired, and the 16-Year Road to Overnight Success
In this episode of Y Combinator’s Lightcone podcast, Jay V, founder and CEO of OpenCode, the open-source coding agent that works with any model, walks through one of…
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Jensen Huang Joins X and His First Post Is a Manifesto: Inside the Open Weights and American AI Leadership Letter Signed by NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, and 20+ Tech Giants
Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA and arguably the most influential person in the AI hardware world, has never been a social media guy. That changed on July…
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Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston on Resilience at Y Combinator: Founder Mode, Cockroaches, Sticking to Your North Star, and Why AI and Climate Keep Them Up at Night
For the very first episode of Disaster Proof, the conversation goes to a garage in Palo Alto to sit down with Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, the founders…
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Paul Graham in Stockholm on Why Founders Should Go to Silicon Valley and How Sweden Can Become the Silicon Valley of Europe
Paul Graham, the Y Combinator co-founder whose essays have shaped how a generation of founders thinks about startups, took the stage in Stockholm to answer two questions at…
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Brian Chesky on AI Founder Mode, the 11-Star Experience, and Reinventing Airbnb for the Age of AI
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky sits down with Patrick O’Shaughnessy on Invest Like The Best to talk about the next evolution of company building: AI Founder Mode. He covers…
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How to Build the Future: Aravind Srinivas on Revolutionizing Search with Perplexity
TL;DRIn an insightful interview with Y Combinator’s David Lieb on February 21, 2025, Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, shares his journey from AI researcher to building…
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The Idea Guy Era: How AI is Unleashing a New Renaissance of Innovation
For much of the digital age, the dominant narrative of technological advancement has centered on the figure of the coding prodigy: the solitary programmer immersed in lines of…
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The Path to Building the Future: Key Insights from Sam Altman’s Journey at OpenAI
Sam Altman’s discussion on “How to Build the Future” highlights the evolution and vision behind OpenAI, focusing on pursuing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) despite early criticisms. He stresses…