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Y Combinator Startup Podcast
87 episodes · Technology · by Y Combinator
About Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Y Combinator Startup Podcast is a Technology podcast with 87 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. 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. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Y Combinator Startup Podcast and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
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Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics — August 13, 2026Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" — August 11, 2026Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed — August 10, 2026How To Design In The Agent Era — August 07, 2026Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence — August 06, 2026Building the First Data Centers in Space — August 05, 2026Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely" — August 04, 2026Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?" — August 03, 2026Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI — August 01, 2026Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” — July 31, 2026Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban — July 29, 2026Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" — July 28, 2026Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code — July 28, 2026Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA — July 27, 2026World Models, Explained — July 17, 2026How To Better Understand Your Users — July 09, 2026Why Domain Experts Are Winning In The Age Of AI — June 19, 2026How To Pick A Startup Idea — June 17, 2026"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer" — June 10, 2026How to Build an AI-Native Services Company — June 03, 2026How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company — May 27, 2026How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot — May 25, 2026Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley? — May 13, 2026Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers — May 08, 2026Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI — May 01, 2026How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis — April 29, 2026The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers — April 25, 2026The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company — April 24, 2026Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website — April 22, 2026The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here — April 16, 2026This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads — April 06, 2026This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s — March 31, 2026How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI — March 27, 2026Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry — March 20, 2026Building A Global AI Startup From India — March 16, 2026The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak — March 09, 2026How To Avoid AI Design Slop — March 06, 2026The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence — February 27, 2026The AI Agent Economy Is Here — February 21, 2026Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny — February 17, 2026The New Way To Build A Startup — February 14, 2026OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents — February 07, 2026We're All Addicted To Claude Code — February 06, 2026How To Get Your First Customers — January 14, 2026Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets — January 08, 2026What Surprised Us Most In 2025 — December 22, 2025How Intelligent Is AI, Really? — December 17, 2025The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide — December 12, 2025From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn — December 10, 2025The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now — November 28, 2025
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