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We help founders make something people want. The Y Combinator Podcast is where builders talk about building. From the earliest days of an idea to scaling a company that changes the world, YC partners and founders share real stories, lessons, and tactics from the frontlines.

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This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 48 minOct 23, 2026

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How To Stand Out In A World Of AI Designs

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 48 minOct 22, 2026

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Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 30 minSep 26, 2026

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The State of Startups in 2026

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 37 minSep 18, 2026

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8 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 13 minSep 13, 2026

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Open Models Change The Economics of AI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 58 minSep 12, 2026

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Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 22 minSep 5, 2026

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The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 15 minSep 4, 2026

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Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 1 hr 0 minAug 29, 2026

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Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 52 minAug 28, 2026

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Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 59 minAug 13, 2026

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Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 42 minAug 11, 2026

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Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 58 minAug 10, 2026

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How To Design In The Agent Era

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 57 minAug 7, 2026

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Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 43 minAug 6, 2026

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Building the First Data Centers in Space

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 37 minAug 5, 2026

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Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 50 minAug 4, 2026

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Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 31 minAug 3, 2026

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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 58 minAug 1, 2026

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Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 33 minJul 31, 2026

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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 51 minJul 29, 2026

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Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 39 minJul 28, 2026

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Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 37 minJul 28, 2026

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Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 49 minJul 27, 2026

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World Models, Explained

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 1 hr 15 minJul 17, 2026

Podcast episode

How To Better Understand Your Users

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 14 minJul 9, 2026

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Why Domain Experts Are Winning In The Age Of AI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 43 minJun 19, 2026

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How To Pick A Startup Idea

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 12 minJun 17, 2026

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"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 55 minJun 10, 2026

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How to Build an AI-Native Services Company

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 12 minJun 3, 2026

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How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 47 minMay 27, 2026

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How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 51 minMay 25, 2026

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Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 22 minMay 13, 2026

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Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 42 minMay 8, 2026

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Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 38 minMay 1, 2026

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How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 41 minApr 29, 2026

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The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 40 minApr 25, 2026

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The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 11 minApr 24, 2026

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Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 44 minApr 22, 2026

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The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 50 minApr 16, 2026

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This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 21 minApr 6, 2026

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This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 32 minMar 31, 2026

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How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 58 minMar 27, 2026

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Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 14 minMar 20, 2026

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Building A Global AI Startup From India

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 40 minMar 16, 2026

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The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 54 minMar 9, 2026

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How To Avoid AI Design Slop

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 38 minMar 6, 2026

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The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 20 minFeb 27, 2026

Podcast episode

The AI Agent Economy Is Here

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 24 minFeb 21, 2026

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Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Audio · 51 minFeb 17, 2026

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