Episodes (Page 2)
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Starcloud launched the first satellite with an NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit, creating the first AI data center in space
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Hiring is fundamentally about selling, not just interviewing
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Jake Heller co-founded Casetext and built CoCounsel, an AI legal assistant acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650 million
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The Transformer architecture, introduced in the 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need,' is the foundation for nearly every modern AI model including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
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YC partners address real founder challenges including AI product go-to-market strategy, pivot timing, and hiring decisions
Office Hours
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AI's impact on jobs is more nuanced than either doomsday or hype narratives
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Karri Saarinen, CEO of Linear, emphasizes that quality and craft matter from day one and significantly impact product differentiation
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Paul Gross and Remora are building mobile carbon capture devices for commercial trucks and trains to capture CO2 before it enters the atmosphere
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Jordan Fisher, former Standard AI CEO and current Anthropic AI alignment researcher, frames the founder's future through critical questions rather than answers
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Nick Joseph, Anthropic's Head of Pre-training, reveals the infrastructure and engineering challenges behind training frontier models like Claude at massive scale
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Fintech 3.0 is emerging due to regulatory clarity, consumer adoption, and low-cost chains creating ideal conditions for crypto builders
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Aaron Levie reflects on Box's evolution through multiple technology waves: mobile, cloud, and now AI, emphasizing the importance of long-term adaptation
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Amjad Masad predicts the value of traditional software will approach zero as AI agents can create software on demand
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Bob McGrew pioneered the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model at Palantir, now central to AI startup strategy and success
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Michael Truell built Cursor to $100M ARR in one year by taking on GitHub Copilot with conviction that all software development will flow through AI models
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OpenAI released its first open-weights model since GPT-2, entering a competitive field with DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen
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Max Junestrand built Legora to $675M valuation in 13 months with no legal background by cracking vertical AI for skeptical industries
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Tom Blomfield's B2B sales playbook includes free pilots, paid pilots, opt-out contracts, and long-term deals structured to prove value
Startup School
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Dylan Field transformed Figma from a WebGL-based meme maker to a multiplayer design platform powering millions, recently achieving IPO
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Model ML built an AI-powered workspace for financial services that orchestrates AI agents as expert team members for automations and workflows