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Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Hosted 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.

Episodes (28)

How To Design In The Agent Era cover
Technology & the Future56 min

How To Design In The Agent Era

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Aug 7, 2026
Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence cover
Technology & the Future42 min

Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Aug 6, 2026
Building the First Data Centers in Space cover
Entrepreneurship36 min

Building the First Data Centers in Space

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Aug 5, 2026
Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely" cover
Technology & the Future49 min

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

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Aug 4, 2026
Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?" cover
Entrepreneurship31 min

Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Aug 3, 2026
Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI cover
Technology & the Future57 min

Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Aug 1, 2026
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban cover
Entrepreneurship50 min

Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jul 30, 2026
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" cover
Entrepreneurship39 min

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

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jul 28, 2026
Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code cover
Technology & the Future36 min

Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jul 28, 2026
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA cover
Biography & Memoir49 min

Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jul 28, 2026
World Models, Explained cover
Technology & the Future1h 14m

World Models, Explained

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jul 17, 2026
How To Better Understand Your Users cover
Entrepreneurship14 min

How To Better Understand Your Users

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jul 9, 2026
How To Pick A Startup Idea cover
Entrepreneurship12 min

How To Pick A Startup Idea

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jun 17, 2026
"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer" cover
Technology & the Future54 min

"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jun 10, 2026
How to Build an AI-Native Services Company cover
Technology & the Future11 min

How to Build an AI-Native Services Company

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jun 3, 2026
How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company cover
Technology & the Future46 min

How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

May 27, 2026
Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley? cover
Entrepreneurship22 min

Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

May 13, 2026
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers cover
Technology & the Future41 min

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

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

May 8, 2026
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI cover
Technology & the Future38 min

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

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

May 1, 2026
The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers cover
Technology & the Future39 min

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

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Apr 25, 2026
The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company cover
Technology & the Future10 min

The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Apr 24, 2026
Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website cover
Technology & the Future44 min

Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Apr 22, 2026
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here cover
Technology & the Future49 min

The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Apr 16, 2026
This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s cover
Entrepreneurship31 min

This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Mar 31, 2026
How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI cover
Technology & the Future57 min

How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Mar 27, 2026
Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry cover
Entrepreneurship13 min

Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Mar 20, 2026
The Fastest Path to Super Intelligence cover
Technology20 min

The Fastest Path to Super Intelligence

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Feb 27, 2026
OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents cover
Business23 min

OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Feb 7, 2026