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Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here
Self-Play for LLMs, AI for Biology, Formal Verification, and More | YC Paper Club
Self-Play for LLMs, AI for Biology, Formal Verification, and More | YC Paper Club
How Meesho Became India’s Biggest Shopping App
How Meesho Became India’s Biggest Shopping App
Emergent: How Six Months of Tinkering Led To A $100M ARR Company
Emergent: How Six Months of Tinkering Led To A $100M ARR Company
How Legora Went From YC to $100M ARR in 18 Months
How Legora Went From YC to $100M ARR in 18 Months
Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz Walks Us Through His AI Coding Setup
Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz Walks Us Through His AI Coding Setup
Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More | YC Paper Club
Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More | YC Paper Club
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
Zepto: How Two 17-Year-Olds Built India's Largest Seller Of Fruits and Vegetables
Zepto: How Two 17-Year-Olds Built India's Largest Seller Of Fruits and Vegetables
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future
How To Build A Company With AI From The Ground Up
How To Build A Company With AI From The Ground Up
How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team
How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny
Inside Claude Code: terminals, tool-use, iteration, and model-driven design
We're All Addicted To Claude Code
Why Claude Code’s CLI agents are reshaping how engineers build
The Truth About The AI Bubble
YC Explores AI Bubble Fears, Model Wars, And Startup Stability
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI
Inside Amplitude’s Painful, All-In Reinvention As An AI-Native Company
AI Is Eating Logistics
AI Supercharges Flexport, Slashing Global Shipping Costs And Complexity
Good News For Startups: Enterprise Is Bad At AI
Enterprise AI Struggles Give Ambitious Startups A Rare Opening Shot
Billion-Dollar Unpopular Startup Ideas
Why Contrarian, Unpopular Ideas Often Become Billion-Dollar Startups
The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups
Seven Enduring Moats Every Ambitious AI Startup Must Master Fast
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
Palantir’s Forward Deployed Model Becomes Blueprint For AI Agent Startups
Anthropic Co-founder: Building Claude Code, Lessons From GPT-3 & LLM System Design
Anthropic Co-founder on Scaling AI, Claude Code, and Startup Grit
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era
Young Builders, Real Value: Thriving In Your 20s Amid AI Upheaval
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work With Agents & Competing With China
Alexandr Wang on Scale AI, Agentic Workflows, and U.S.–China AI Rivalry
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
Inside Frontier AI Startups: Meta Prompting, Evals, And Forward-Deployed Founders
Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
AI Unleashes Previously Impossible Startups, From Recruiting To Full-Stack Services
Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding
Windsurf CEO on rapid pivots, AI agents, and democratized software building
How Top 1% Founders Navigate Co-founder Conflict
Top 1% founders reveal hard truths about co-founder conflict
Vibe Coding Is The Future
Vibe Coding Transforms Software Engineers Into Product-Focused System Architects Worldwide
How AI Is Changing Enterprise
Enterprise AI Revolution: From Commodity Intelligence To Explosive Software Growth
How To Get AI Startup Ideas
From Hackathon Hacks To Billion-Dollar AI: Finding Real Ideas
AI Revolution: What Nobody Else Is Seeing
AI Agents Explode Startup Growth, Redefining Work, Wealth, And Software
The Lightcone 2025 Forecast
AI Nobels, Stablecoin Payments, Doge Politics, and 3D Turing Tests
2024: The Year the GPT Wrapper Myth Proved Wrong
2024 Shatters GPT-Wrapper Myth As Vertical AI Startups Explode
Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS
Vertical AI Agents Poised To Eclipse SaaS And Reshape Workforces
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling
AI’s Next Leap: Reasoning Engines Transform Science, Chips, And Startups
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ
Ten-Trillion-Parameter AI: From 300 IQ Models To Startup Goldrush
Now Anyone Can Code: How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App
AI Coding Agents Turn Simple Ideas Into Fully Deployed Apps Instantly
Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities
Legal AI Pioneer Reveals Blueprint For Billion-Dollar Vertical Agents
Building The World's Best Image Diffusion Model
Playground Reinvents Image Generation As A True Graphic Design Partner
How YC Was Created With Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston Reveals How Y Combinator’s Unusual DNA Was Forged
Are We In An AI Hype Cycle?
AI Boom Or Bubble? YC Partners Dissect Today’s Explosive Hype Cycle
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit On AGI, Open Source Models, Freedom
Gmail creator Paul Buchheit insists AI must empower individual freedom
10 People + AI = Billion Dollar Company?
AI Coders, Tiny Teams, And Why Learning To Code Still Matters
Better AI Models, Better Startups
How Better AI Models Open Massive Opportunities For Startup Founders
Why This Is The Perfect Time To Start A Startup
Why College Is Your Best Moment Ever To Start A Startup
Lightcone: Consumer is back, What’s getting funded now, The vibes immaculate
YC’s AI Supercycle: Consumer Revival, Dev Tools Boom, Crypto Cools Off
Inside The Hard Tech Startups Turning Sci-Fi Into Reality
YC Reveals How Hard Tech Startups Turn Sci‑Fi Into Reality
How To Build Generative AI Models Like OpenAI's Sora
Building Powerful Generative AI Without Billions: Lessons Beyond Sora
The best AI founders in the world are moving here
San Francisco’s AI ‘Cerebral Valley’ Sparks a New Tech Boom Loop
