Episodes from Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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.
The episode details the strategy behind building a successful AI startup, focusing on idea selection, product development, and market strategy, culminating in a $650 million exit.
This episode traces the historical development of the transformer architecture, highlighting the key innovations that led to its creation and its subsequent impact on modern AI systems. It explains how challenges in processing sequential data were overcome through advancements like LSTMs and attenti...
This episode features Y Combinator experts answering founder questions on crucial startup topics like go-to-market strategies for AI companies, the role of AI in sales, when to pivot, and hiring decisions.
The episode argues that AI will transform the economy by increasing efficiency and demand for services, rather than leading to mass unemployment.
This episode features Kari Sarnan, co-founder and CEO of Linear, discussing the critical role of high-quality design in startups.