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Y Combinator Startup Podcast

by Y Combinator

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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Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets
Jan 8, 2026
00:15:43
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What Surprised Us Most In 2025
Dec 22, 2025
00:30:22
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How Intelligent Is AI, Really?
Dec 17, 2025
00:11:59
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The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide
Dec 12, 2025
00:42:19
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From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn
Dec 10, 2025
00:38:46
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The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now
Nov 28, 2025
00:39:35
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Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites
Nov 20, 2025
00:35:34
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Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space
Nov 13, 2025
00:12:55
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How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps
Nov 7, 2025
00:43:20
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From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups
Oct 28, 2025
00:39:24
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Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
Oct 23, 2025
00:09:18
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YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours
Oct 21, 2025
00:38:32
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What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs
Oct 14, 2025
00:08:00
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How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out
Oct 13, 2025
00:35:49
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The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device
Oct 9, 2025
00:12:46
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Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions
Oct 7, 2025
00:40:35
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Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
Oct 1, 2025
01:04:04
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Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto
Sep 23, 2025
00:42:00
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Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era
Sep 16, 2025
00:40:27
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The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
Sep 12, 2025
00:42:01
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The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
Sep 8, 2025
00:50:42
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Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students
Sep 3, 2025
00:27:55
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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures
Aug 29, 2025
00:12:31
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How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)
Aug 26, 2025
00:45:25
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The Sales Playbook for Founders | Startup School
Aug 15, 2025
00:18:38
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Figma CEO Dylan Field: How AI Will Transform Design
Aug 8, 2025
00:40:36
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The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street
Jul 31, 2025
00:46:15
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Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan
Jul 29, 2025
00:40:47
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Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen
Jul 25, 2025
00:43:41
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Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything
Jul 22, 2025
00:44:52
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Replit CEO Amjad Masad: Coding Agents, Autonomy, and the Future of Work
Jul 22, 2025
00:35:50
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John Jumper: AlphaFold and the Future of Science
Jul 15, 2025
00:27:12
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Aravind Srinivas: The Race to Build the AI Browser of the Future
Jul 11, 2025
00:43:12
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Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI
Jul 10, 2025
00:43:57
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François Chollet: The ARC Prize & How We Get to AGI
Jul 3, 2025
00:34:47
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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
Jul 1, 2025
00:44:21
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Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products
Jun 27, 2025
00:35:46
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Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs
Jun 25, 2025
00:40:29
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Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware
Jun 21, 2025
00:42:44
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Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful
Jun 21, 2025
00:49:40
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Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Jun 19, 2025
00:39:31
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Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Matters
Jun 11, 2025
00:37:28
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Fusion Energy Is Tech's Next Big Unlock
Jun 6, 2025
00:08:07
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AI Apps Are Broken — Here's How To Fix Them
May 23, 2025
00:30:07
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How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job
May 9, 2025
00:19:11
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How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School
Apr 25, 2025
00:16:39
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How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup
Apr 18, 2025
00:38:23
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Why America Stopped Innovating - And How We Can Start Again
Apr 4, 2025
00:34:12
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What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game
Mar 28, 2025
00:20:43
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How to Build the Future: Tony Xu
Mar 26, 2025
00:31:32
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