Y Combinator Startup Podcast

The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew

Bob McGrew helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades. Bob was an early engine...

Michael Truell: Building Cursor at 23, Taking on GitHub Copilot, and Advice to Engineering Students

Michael Truell on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.At 25, Michael Truell has already built Cu...

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen vs. Deepseek: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures

OpenAI recently released its first open-weights model since GPT-2, entering a field led by DeepSeek and Alibaba...

How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)

In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer is joined by Max Junestrand, co-founder ...

The Sales Playbook for Founders | Startup School

Navigating B2B sales for the first time can feel slow and overwhelming.Drawing from his experience founding Monzo ...

Figma CEO Dylan Field: How AI Will Transform Design

Dylan Field on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Dylan Field co-founded Figma to bring the des...

The AI Finance Startup Taking On Microsoft Office

Brothers Chaz and Arnie Englander started Model ML after building and selling two YC companies. What began as a to...

Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan

Jared Kaplan on June 16th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Jared Kaplan started out as a theoretical ph...

Building a Brand People Will Care About | Karri Saarinen, Linear CEO

For this episode of Design Review, YC’s Aaron Epstein is joined by Karri Saarinen, co-founder & CEO of Linear,...

Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything

Chelsea Finn on June 17th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.From MIT through her PhD at Berkeley, where ...

Replit CEO Amjad Masad: Coding Agents, Autonomy, and the Future of Work

Amjad Massad started Replit to make programming accessible to anyone, anywhere. What began as a tool for learning ...

John Jumper: AlphaFold and the Future of Science

John Jumper on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

John Jumper is a physicist-tu...

Aravind Srinivas: The Race to Build the AI Browser of the Future

Aravind Srinivas on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Aravind Srinivas started Perplexity with o...

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI

Andrew Ng on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Andrew Ng has helped shape some of the most influ...

François Chollet: The ARC Prize & How We Get to AGI

François Chollet on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

François Chollet is a leading voice...