Topic signal
Founder-focused signal on startup building, fundraising, product, go-to-market, and operating lessons.
Yoko Li speaks with Luma's Head of Applied Research Matt Tancik and Phota Labs cofounder and CTO Zach Xia about how AI is changing creativity, photography, and the tools people us…
Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, argues the biggest gains in AI don't come from faster chips, they come from software-hardware co-design. Optimizing the model, the kernels, a…
Avoca (YC W23) is building what it calls the AI workforce for the physical economy, starting with home services. In just a few years, the company has grown to eight figures in rev…
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville Topic : Obsession, Revenge, Seafaring, Whale Anatomy, How to negotiate startup equity, American Dynamism…
Rocket Lab founder & CEO Sir Peter Beck shares an update on our latest acquisition to grow our space powerhouse. Full details and important information: https://www.globenewswire.…
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…
Warp (YC W23) recently announced a $60 million Series B and now serves more than 1,000 customers, processing over $600 million in payroll annually and on track to surpass $2 billi…
Join 321000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A ...
Fernando Terrés is the co-founder and CEO of ARQ (S21), a fintech company building global banking for the growing number of people in Latin America who live, work, and invest acro…
Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga and author of "Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love", which distills the product philosophy and founder playbook he developed…
Matt Bornstein speaks with Mirendil cofounders Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta about their vision for building self-accelerating AI. After leading research efforts at Google and…
Brooke Hopkins is the founder and CEO of Coval (S24), a simulation and observability platform for voice agents that helps enterprises test, monitor, and evaluate AI-powered phone…
Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin, co-founders of Engram, are building a neolab around memory and continual learning, which they call two sides of the same coin. Their contrarian premise…
Following a string of departures among its top AI leaders, @googledeepmind CEO Demis Hassabis dismissed the notion that ...
When electric motors were invented, factories didn't become dramatically more productive overnight. The biggest gains came years later, after people redesigned factories around th…
Anish Acharya speaks with Microsoft VP of Design John Maeda and Impeccable founder and CEO Paul Bakaus about how AI is changing the practice of design. The conversation explores t…
When most founders look for customers, they reach for cold email and automation tools. But your first 10 customers almost never come from a tool. They come from you, working your…
Bryant Chou co-founded Webflow, which today powers around 1% of all websites on the internet. Now he's back in the current YC batch with Ploy, an AI-powered website and marketing…
Angela Strange and Gabriel Vásquez speak with Addi founder and CEO Santiago Suárez about building one of Latin America's largest financial platforms. What began as a buy now, pay…
Many founders get stuck trying to find the perfect startup idea before they commit. But the perfect idea doesn't exist in the abstract. The only way to find what works is to pick…
Today’s post is by Ben Liu, co-founder and CEO of Formation Bio. It’s one of my favorite long reads in a while. AI will tra…
Alan cofounder and CTO joins Stripe French country lead Laurent Curny for a fireside chat at Tour Paris. Register for Stripe Tour 2026: https://stripetour.com
News as of this morning: SpaceX is acquiring Cursor . Here’s founder Michael Truell and a16z’s Martin Casado at last year&#…
The race to build superintelligence is producing models that keep getting better at objective problems, but not at behaving like actual people. Joon Sung Park, founder and CEO of…
Yoko Li and Justine Moore speak with Ideogram founder and CEO Mohammad Norouzi about image generation models, design workflows, and the evolving relationship between AI and creati…
Lalit Keshre is the co-founder and CEO of Groww (W18), India's largest retail investment platform, offering stocks, mutual funds, and wealth management products to millions of cus…
🎁 Free Workplace Automation Kit — the system my team uses daily to automate the busywork and stay focused on what actually matters. Download here → https://clickhubspot.com/fbd89…
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…
“Growth-stage venture” has emerged as its own asset class, and we think it’s the most important asset class in the wo…
Vidit Aatrey is the co-founder and CEO of Meesho (S16), an e-commerce platform built for mass-market India that has grown to about 1 millions sellers and 2.5 billion annual orders…
The entire startup ecosystem is racing to build agent harnesses. Logan Kilpatrick, who leads Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, argues that scramble has a roughly 12-month shelf…
Cleo founder and CEO Barney Hussey-Yeo joins Stripe CEO John Collison for a fireside chat at Tour London. Register for Stripe Tour 2026: https://stripetour.com
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…
Emily Chang meets Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei for a rare, in-depth discussion of the startup's origin story, its battles with the Pentagon and how the company s…
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, makes the case that computing is undergoing its biggest shift in 60 years: from retrieval, where data centers store files we look up, to g…
📌 Launch your dream business with the best designs the world has to offer — Design.com: https://go.design.com/cd5msoz Join me for an inspiring conversation with Esther Wojcicki,…
Brain-computer interfaces could dramatically alter how humans interact with technology. Today, startups around the world are racing to get their devices approved for commercial us…
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…
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…
Daniela Amodei, President & Co-Founder at Anthropic discusses the latest in model development, its commercialization strategy ...
Sarah Wang speaks with Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk about building search infrastructure for the AI era. The conversation covers Exa’s origins, why traditional search engines w…
In the first episode of our new series Full Stack, Conductor CEO and co-founder Charlie Holtz takes us into the details of how he sets up his workflow for coding and managing AI a…
David Senra has spent a decade reading the biographies of 400+ founders for his podcast Founders - and lately he's started interviewing the living ones face to face. He joins me t…
Martin Casado speaks with George Fraser, cofounder and CEO of Fivetran, about the future of data infrastructure in the age of AI. The conversation covers Fivetran’s merger with db…
Alfred Wahlforss, co-founder and CEO of Listen Labs, is building an AI agent that interviews your customers at a scale no focus group ever could—thousands of voice conversations a…
For founders in emerging markets, the biggest hurdle is the movement of money. Traditional fiat transactions can take days to settle, locking up capital and slowing down growth. M…
📌 Head to https://granola.ai/marina and enter the code MARINA for 3 months off. Chris Pedregal built a $1.5 billion AI app in 3 years, in a category where Zoom and Google already…
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…