Y Combinator

The ML Technique Every Founder Should Know

How To Get Your First Users

Launching a successful startup requires shifting from building a "minimum viable product" to a "minimum evolvable product" designed to survive initial market contact. Finding the first ten users is a search problem rather than a persuasion problem, targeting "early adopters" who possess a burning need or a natural incl...

Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets

The Truth About The AI Bubble

In this episode of The Light Cone, Jared, Diana, and Harj reflect on the most surprising developments in the AI landscape of 2025. They discuss the stabilization of the AI economy with its model, application, and infrastructure layers, and the shift in preferred LLMs at YC, with Anthropic surpassing OpenAI due to its s...

How Intelligent Is AI, Really?

From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn

How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI

The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now

Mike Mignano, a partner at Lightspeed Ventures and founder of Anchor, discusses consumer startups and the impact of AI on media with Garry Tan. Mignano draws parallels between Instagram's impact on photo sharing and Suno's potential to democratize music creation through AI. He emphasizes that timing and cultural releva...

Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites

AI Is Eating Logistics

Inside The Startup Launching AI Data Centers Into Space

The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs

The podcast explores effective strategies for startups to source and hire top engineering and sales talent. David Paffenholz, co-founder and CEO of Juicebox, shares insights on attracting talent by understanding candidates' motivations—whether they lean towards Big Tech stability, growth-stage predictability, or the hi...

Good News For Startups: Enterprise Is Bad At AI

The hosts, Jared and Diana, along with Garry, discuss an MIT report on AI project failures, arguing that the viral tweets misrepresented the study's findings. They highlight that enterprises often struggle with AI implementation due to internal IT issues, political battles, and reliance on consulting agencies lacking t...

From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups

The podcast features a speaker sharing insights on building and marketing AI applications, drawing from their experience in creating an AI app that led to a $650 million exit. The discussion covers idea selection, emphasizing the importance of identifying tasks people are already paying for and focusing on assisting, r...

Transformers Explained: The Discovery That Changed AI Forever

Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire

Billion-Dollar Unpopular Startup Ideas

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs

This Startup Is Trying To Delete 29% Of All CO2 Emissions

Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup