Episodes (Page 2)
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Calvin French-Owen, co-founder of Segment and former OpenAI Codex engineer, discusses why coding agents like Claude Code feel particularly powerful
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YC partner Ankit Gupta introduces the concept of a Minimum Evolvable Product (MEP) that adapts to early customer needs, beyond just building an MVP
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Stoke Space is developing fully reusable rockets that can launch, survive reentry, and fly repeatedly to revolutionize spaceflight economics
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2025 marked a shift from chaotic AI development to buildable, practical AI applications
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ARC-AGI is redefining AGI measurement by focusing on reasoning, generalization, and adaptability instead of scale or memorization
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Ryo Lu transformed Cursor from a VS Code feature layer into a leading AI code editor through rapid prototyping and iteration
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James Hawkins built PostHog from a pre-YC deadline hack into a $1.4 billion unicorn in just a few years
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Michael Mignano created Anchor to make podcast production accessible to millions through simple tap-based creation
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Ryo Lu, Cursor's Head of Design, demonstrates how great product websites communicate what companies do through structure and clarity
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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