India Can Create The Largest AI Companies
In this final panel from Startup School India, the hosts reflect on why India's deep technical talent makes it uniquely positioned to produce some of the world's largest companies…
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Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It
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How to Get Your First 10 Customers
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The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here
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Pick One Idea and Go Deep
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Groww: If Your Customers Don't Love It or Hate It, You've Already Lost
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Self-Play for LLMs, AI for Biology, Formal Verification, and More | YC Paper Club
It's hard to keep up with the latest AI research. That's why we started YC Paper Club — a small group of researchers, engineers, and founders who meet every two weeks at our Mount…
How Meesho Became India’s Biggest Shopping App
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The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know
Brex co-founder and CEO Pedro Franceschi believes most people still underestimate how much AI will change the way companies are built. AI isn't just another tool, it's a new found…
Emergent: How Six Months of Tinkering Led To A $100M ARR Company
Mukund Jha is the co-founder and CEO of Emergent, a platform that lets anyone without programming knowledge build, ship, and monetize real software by chatting with an AI agent. L…
How Legora Went From YC to $100M ARR in 18 Months
Max Junestrand was a college student in Sweden with a McKinsey offer in his back pocket. Instead, he and two co-founders went all in on legal AI — and built Legora (YC W24) into o…
Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz Walks Us Through His AI Coding Setup
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How to Build an AI-Native Services Company
Some of the biggest companies of the next decade won't be software businesses. They'll be services companies like insurance carriers, law firms, and tax practices rebuilt from scr…
How to Earn a Billion Dollars
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Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup
Varun Vummadi is the co-founder of Giga, which builds AI agents for customer support for some of the biggest companies in the world, including DoorDash, one of the largest crypto…
Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More | YC Paper Club
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Inside YC's AI Playbook
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How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
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How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI
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Zepto: How Two 17-Year-Olds Built India's Largest Seller Of Fruits and Vegetables
Aadit Palicha is the co-founder and CEO of Zepto, one of India's largest quick-commerce grocery platforms. What began as a WhatsApp group delivering groceries to neighbors in Mumb…
Programming Bottom-Up
1993 (This essay is from the introduction to On Lisp .) Arc 's name.--> It's a long-standing principle of programming style that the functional elements of a program should not be too large. If some component of a progr…
What Languages Fix
Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it fixes. The surprising thing is how many, and how well, languages can be described this way. Algol…
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
There is a kind of mania for object-oriented programming at the moment, but some of the smartest programmers I know are some of the least excited about it. My own feeling is that object-oriented programming is a useful…
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm
Paul Graham, the Founder of Y Combinator, speaks live from Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm, Sweden.
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm
Paul Graham, the Founder of Y Combinator, speaks live from Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm, Sweden. He covers two topics -- if you should you go to Silicon Valle…
How to Convert Between Wealth and Income Tax
How do you convert between wealth and income tax? If a government imposes a wealth tax of 1%, what's the equivalent in income tax? It's clear from the way most politicians talk about the subject that they not only don't…
The End of Manual Debugging
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Aaron Epstein talks to Sherwood Callaway, founder of Sazabi (P26), who exited his first YC company and is coming back thro…
The Q/A Layer for the AI Coding Era
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Harj Taggar talks to Weiwei Wu and Jeff An, co-founders of Momentic (W24), who just raised a $15M Series A. Momentic is t…
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This Is The Next Industry AI Will Disrupt
AI is already transforming entire professions like software engineering and law. And accounting might be next. In this episode of The Breakdown, YC’s Tom Blomfield and David Lieb…
This Startup Built the Infrastructure Powering Voice AI
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman talks to Dylan Fox, the Founder of Assembly AI (S17), which has raised $160M to date. AssemblyAI is the vo…
The Brand Age
In the early 1970s, disaster struck the Swiss watch industry. Now people call it the quartz crisis, but in fact it was a compound of three separate disasters that all happened at about the same time. The first was compe…
AI-Powered Revenue is Here
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC General Partner Diana Hu talks with Ali Akhtar (Co-founder & CEO) and Armen Forget (Co-founder & CTO) of Letter AI, who just announced a $…
Rebuilding Customer Support for the AI Era
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Harj Taggar talks to the founders of Pylon (W23), Marty, Advith, and Robert, who recently raised a $51M Series B. Pylon i…
This AI Startup Is Taking Over Phone Sales
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman talks to the founders of Simple AI (S24), Catheryn Li & Zach Kamran, who just raised a seed round of $14M.…
CEO of Framer: Why Designers Should Become Founders
In this episode of Design Review, YC’s Aaron Epstein sat down with Jorn van Dijk, the CEO and Co-founder of Framer. Together they unpack the brutal “gray zone” between early reven…
This Startup Beat Gemini 3 on ARC-AGI — at Half the Cost
Poetiq is a new startup founded by former DeepMind researchers that recently achieved a major jump on the ARC-AGI benchmark by layering a recursive self-improvement system on top…
Artie: Real Time Data Streaming For The AI Age
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman talks to the founders of Artie (S23), Jacqueline Cheong and Robin Tang, who have just announced their Seri…
The Future of AI Molecular Discovery
During last month’s NeurIPS 2025 conference, YC’s Ankit Gupta sat down with Ellen Zhong, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, to discuss how machine learning i…
This Startup Is Trying To Solve The AI Memory Problem
While LLMs continue to evolve, they still struggle with memory. The startup Mem0 is working to change that by building the memory layer for AI agents. In this episode of Founder F…
A New Approach To AI Models
During last month’s NeurIPS 2025 conference, YC’s Ankit Gupta sat down with Karan Goel, founder and CEO of Cartesia, to explain why today’s AI architectures may be fundamentally l…