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Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 346 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Y Combinator Startup Podcast

“This year, I just saw that actually no one's coming to the dashboard. Like no one visits dashboards anymore. So how are agents going to build? … I just kind of put out a product memo to the team that said it has to be code first. … If it exists on the dashboard, it basically has to work in lockstep in code, infrastructure as code, essentially.” — Paul Copplestone, Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Paul Copplestone · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“There's two stages to winning the agents. The first is being picked by the model. And then the second is, if they get stuck, you don't want them to switch away. So guaranteed they'll get stuck at some point. You just want to give them the tools to remedy. … You do have to re-engineer a lot of what previously was just for humans and developers for agents.” — Paul Copplestone, Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Paul Copplestone · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's an infinitely patient collaborator and teammate. Codex won't get mad at me if I need 91 approaches at getting the animation correct. If I had done that with my engineer, they would probably flip out.” — Marvin Schwaibold, Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Marvin Schwaibold · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's so easy to pump out more code and more software, but it's harder than ever to actually talk about what you are doing in a coherent way in front of an audience. Because now, Aaron, you know, someone can clone my product in like two minutes at this point. But again, what they, what's really hard to clone is the audience and the community that I built around what I'm doing and the energy around it.” — Farza Majeed, Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Farza Majeed · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Y Combinator Startup Podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon , Michael Seibel , Dalton Caldwell , Aaron Epstein , Kevin Hale , Harj Taggar , Gustaf Alströmer , Sam Altman , Jared Friedman , Adora Cheung , Anu Hariharan and Kat Manalac .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    What Happens When Everyone Can Build Software

    With Paul Copplestone

  2. 28 Oct 2026

    The New Full-Stack Designer

    With Marvin Schwaibold

  3. 23 Oct 2026

    This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos

    With Farza Majeed

  4. 22 Oct 2026

    How To Stand Out In A World Of AI Designs

    With Alex Danilowicz

  5. 26 Sep 2026

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

  6. 18 Sep 2026

    The State of Startups in 2026

  7. 13 Sep 2026

    8 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales

    With Christina Gilbert

  8. 12 Sep 2026

    Open Models Change The Economics of AI

    With Jeffrey Morgan

  9. 5 Sep 2026

    Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders

    With Paul Graham

  10. 4 Sep 2026

    The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew

    With Anders Forslund

  11. 29 Aug 2026

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

    With Max Junestrand

  12. 28 Aug 2026

    Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac

    With Susan Kare

Guests

Geoff Ralston (3 episodes), Amjad Masad (3 episodes), Pete Koomen (3 episodes), François Chollet (2 episodes), Holly Liu (2 episodes), Katie Dill (2 episodes), Raphael Schaad (2 episodes), Michael Truell (2 episodes), Boris Cherny (2 episodes), Carolynn Levy (2 episodes), Avni Patel Thompson (2 episodes), Ali Rowghani (2 episodes), and 199 more.