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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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Episodes 345 episodes in the feed

  1. The New Full-Stack Designer

    1 h 5 min

  2. This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos

    47 min

  3. How To Stand Out In A World Of AI Designs

    47 min

  4. Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics

    29 min

  5. The State of Startups in 2026

    36 min

  6. 8 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales

    12 min

  7. Open Models Change The Economics of AI

    57 min

  8. Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders

    21 min

  9. The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew

    14 min

  10. Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else

    59 min

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  1. Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac

    51 min

  2. Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics

    58 min

  3. Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"

    41 min

  4. Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed

    57 min

  5. How To Design In The Agent Era

    56 min

  6. Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence

    42 min

  7. Building the First Data Centers in Space

    36 min

  8. Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"

    49 min

  9. Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"

    30 min

  10. Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI

    57 min

  11. Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”

    32 min

  12. Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban

    50 min

  13. Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"

    39 min

  14. Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code

    36 min

  15. Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA

    48 min

  16. World Models, Explained

    1 h 14 min

  17. How To Better Understand Your Users

    13 min

  18. Why Domain Experts Are Winning In The Age Of AI

    42 min

  19. How To Pick A Startup Idea

    11 min

  20. "The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"

    54 min

  21. How to Build an AI-Native Services Company

    11 min

  22. How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company

    46 min

  23. How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot

    50 min

  24. Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?

    21 min

  25. Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers

    41 min

  26. Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

    37 min

  27. How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis

    40 min

  28. The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers

    39 min

  29. The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company

    10 min

  30. Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website

    43 min

  31. The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here

    49 min

  32. This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads

    20 min

  33. This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s

    31 min

  34. How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI

    57 min

  35. Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry

    13 min

  36. Building A Global AI Startup From India

    39 min

  37. The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak

    53 min

  38. How To Avoid AI Design Slop

    37 min

  39. The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence

    19 min

  40. The AI Agent Economy Is Here

    23 min

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