Episodes from Y Combinator Startup Podcast
The episode explains that acquiring early customers is more about a search for people with specific needs or early adopter tendencies than persuasion.
Stokespace is developing fully and rapidly reusable rockets to significantly reduce the cost and increase the accessibility of space travel.
The podcast discusses surprising trends observed in 2025, including the stabilization of the AI economy with clear roles for model, application, and infrastructure layers, and a shift in developer preference from OpenAI to Anthropic as the top LLM.
This episode discusses the ArchPrize Foundation's mission to advance AI towards human-like generalization, focusing on its ARC AGI benchmark as a measure of an AI's ability to learn new things efficiently. The conversation highlights how this benchmark is becoming a standard for evaluating AI progre...
This episode explores how AI is blurring the lines between design and engineering roles, enabling designers to code and engineers to design, with code becoming a shared language.
This episode features James Hawkins, CEO of PostHog, discussing his journey from "pivot hell" to building a $1.4 billion unicorn. Hawkins shares insights on finding product-market fit through iterative pivots, leveraging unconventional marketing strategies, and the evolution of PostHog's product sui...
This episode explores how AI is reshaping the landscape for consumer startups, making previously "impossible" ideas feasible and highlighting new opportunities in areas like media creation and personalized education.
This episode features Rio Lu, Head of Design at Cursor, reviewing user-submitted websites built with Cursor.
StarCloud is pioneering the development of data centers in space, launching a satellite with an NVIDIA H100 GPU to demonstrate the feasibility of orbital AI compute. This ambitious venture aims to alleviate terrestrial data center constraints like energy and water usage, with the long-term vision of...
This episode features David Paffenholz, co-founder of Juicebox, offering advice on how startups can effectively source and hire their first engineers and sales representatives.