Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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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.
Episodes (35)
The State of Startups in 2026
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Sep 18, 20268 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales
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Sep 13, 2026Open Models Change The Economics of AI
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Sep 12, 2026The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew
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Sep 4, 2026Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
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Aug 13, 2026Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
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Aug 11, 2026Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed
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Aug 11, 2026How To Design In The Agent Era
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Aug 7, 2026Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence
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Aug 6, 2026Building the First Data Centers in Space
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Aug 5, 2026Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"
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Aug 4, 2026Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"
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Aug 3, 2026Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
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Aug 1, 2026Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban
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Jul 30, 2026Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"
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Jul 28, 2026Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code
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Jul 28, 2026Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA
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Jul 28, 2026World Models, Explained
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Jul 17, 2026How To Better Understand Your Users
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Jul 9, 2026How To Pick A Startup Idea
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Jun 17, 2026"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"
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Jun 10, 2026How to Build an AI-Native Services Company
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Jun 3, 2026How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company
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May 27, 2026Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?
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May 13, 2026Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
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May 8, 2026Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
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May 1, 2026The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers
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Apr 25, 2026The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company
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Apr 24, 2026Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website
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Apr 22, 2026The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
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Apr 16, 2026This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s
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Mar 31, 2026How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI
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Mar 27, 2026Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry
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Mar 20, 2026
The Fastest Path to Super Intelligence
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Feb 27, 2026
OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents
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Feb 7, 2026