Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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

Replit is the leading no-code app builder for consumers and enterprise, letting anyone with an idea build real, deployed software using natural language. The company just raised a $400 million Series ...

2026-04-26

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The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company

AI isn't just making teams more productive. It's changing how companies should be built. In this episode of Startup School, YC Partner Diana Hu explains what it means to build an AI-native co...

2026-04-25

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Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website

Even the most successful websites eventually need a redesign. Take Stripe for example. After six years with the same homepage, they recently unveiled a brand new site that reflects how the fintech gia...

2026-04-22

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The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here

Physical Intelligence is building a foundation model that can control any robot to do any task — what the team describes as the GPT-1 moment for robotics. The company's cross-embodiment approach ...

2026-04-16

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This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads

1 in 11 babies born in America this year will be screened by a genetic test that didn't exist a decade ago.Biotech startup BillionToOne turned a simple but radical idea—detecting rare fragments of...

2026-04-06

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This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s

In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman talks to Karine Mellata, co-founder of Variance (W23), who is coming out of stealth and announcing their $21 million Series A. ...

2026-04-01

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How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI

François Chollet has spent years asking a different question than most of the AI world. Instead of scaling what already works, he’s trying to understand what intelligence actually is—and how to build ...

2026-03-27

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Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry

Solugen is reinventing the trillion-dollar chemical manufacturing industry by combining biology and chemistry in a new way. In this episode of Hard Tech, YC's Jared Friedman visits co-founders Gaurab ...

2026-03-20

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Building A Global AI Startup From India

In this episode of The Lightcone, we talk with Mukund and Madhav Jha, the founders of Emergent - an AI platform that lets anyone build and ship production-ready software. In just eight months, users h...

2026-03-16

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

YC alum Max Hodak is the co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, a company building brain-computer interfaces that can restore sight.Science has developed a tiny retinal implant that stimulate...

2026-03-09

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How To Avoid AI Design Slop

As no-code design tools become more common, so do the pitfalls. You know what they look like - the purple gradients, annoying hover effects, sections that fade as you scroll. So how do you avoid a sit...

2026-03-07

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The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence

Poetiq is a new startup founded by former DeepMind researchers that recently achieved a major jump on the ARC-AGI and Humanity's Last Exam benchmark by layering a recursive self-improvement system...

2026-02-27

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The AI Agent Economy Is Here

With the takeoff of OpenClaw and MoltBook, a new agent-driven economy is taking shape. In this episode of the Lightcone, we took a look at the explosive growth of AI dev tools and whether the time ha...

2026-02-22

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Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny

A very special guest on this episode of the Lightcone! Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, sits down to share the incredible journey of developing one of the most transformative coding tools of ...

2026-02-18

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The New Way To Build A Startup

In the AI era, startups aren't winning by hiring faster — they're winning by automating as many internal functions as possible. In this episode of Main Function, Garry breaks down how tiny tea...

2026-02-15

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OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents

You’ve probably already heard all about OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot). The viral sensation is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own device, connects with messaging apps you already ...

2026-02-08

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We're All Addicted To Claude Code

Wondering why your maker-turned-manager suddenly seems distracted in meetings? Maybe they're addicted to coding agents! In this episode of Lightcone, Calvin French-Owen — a co-founder of Segment a...

2026-02-06

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How To Get Your First Customers

When you're starting out, it isn’t enough to just build a minimum viable product. You also need a minimum evolvable product - one that can adapt to the needs of those critical early customers. In this...

2026-01-15

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Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets

Stoke Space is racing to build the world's first fully reusable rockets that can launch, survive reentry, and fly again and again. In this episode of Hard Tech, YC’s Aaron Epstein sits down with S...

2026-01-09

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What Surprised Us Most In 2025

2025 was the year AI stopped feeling chaotic and started feeling buildable. In this Lightcone episode, the YC partners break down the surprises of the year, from shifting model dominance to why the re...

2025-12-22

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