Y Combinator

Unofficial, machine-generated summaries, as of 2026-11-09.

↗Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire
↗The Line Between Software and Service
↗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
↗The Shortcut Rule
↗The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups
↗Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
↗Early Decision for Students
↗Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto
↗Don’t Be Afraid to Talk About Price
↗Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era
↗"Startups only exist to find product-market fit."
↗The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
↗Agency and Independence
↗The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
↗Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students
↗OpenAI vs. Deepseek vs. Qwen: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures
↗AI won’t make coding obsolete. It will make it universal.
↗How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)
↗Technical Expertise is Now the Missing Piece
↗Intellectual Fearlessness
↗Anthropic Co-founder: Building Claude Code, Lessons From GPT-3 & LLM System Design
↗The Sales Playbook For Founders | Startup School
↗Satya Nadella on Leadership
↗Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design
↗Where does your interest come from?
↗Using LLMs Instead of Government Consulting
↗AI Native Enterprise Software
↗Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems
↗The First 10-person, $100B Company
↗The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street
↗Video Generation as a Primitive
↗Retraining Workers for the AI Economy
↗Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan
↗Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen
↗Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything
↗How Replit Went From $10M to $100M ARR In Just 9 Months
↗Small Teams Will Build the Future
↗Nobel Laureate John Jumper: AI is Revolutionizing Scientific Discovery
↗Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search
↗Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI
↗The Real Moat
↗François Chollet: How We Get To AGI
↗Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
↗AI for Scientific Discovery
↗Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products
↗Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs
↗Andrej Karpathy on why we still need humans in the loop
↗Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful
↗Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
↗Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work With Agents & Competing With China
↗Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters
↗Powering the Future with Fusion
↗Fusion Energy Will Power the AI Boom
↗Many AI apps today are like the horseless carriages of the late 19th century.
↗Sometimes, the tech just needs time to catch up.
↗State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
↗In the AI era, the playbook is changing.
↗How To Design Better AI Apps
↗AI for Personal Finance
↗AI Voice Assistants for Email
↗Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
↗Software engineering as we know it will look much different in 5-10 years.
↗AI Research Labs
↗Internal Agent Builder
↗Software Tools To Make Robots
↗AI for Residential Security
↗Healthcare AI
↗AI Personal Tutor for Everyone
↗AI Personal Assistant
↗How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job
↗AI for Scientific Advancement
↗Voice AI
↗More Design Founders
↗Full-stack AI Companies
↗Irrational optimism and uncompromising realism.
↗Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding
↗How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School
↗Why Now Is the Best Time for Designers to Start Companies
↗How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup
↗Celebrating 20 Years of Y Combinator
↗Derek Thompson’s advice for founders is to follow your curiosity.
↗The Next Breakthrough In AI Agents Is Here
↗How To Build A Truly Abundant Future
↗Startups that make it are rare. You can do it alone, but with a good co-founder you can go farther.
↗The idea for DoorDash didn’t come from surveys—it came from living a day in the customer’s shoes.
↗What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game
↗DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market
↗Perplexity's competitive advantage against Google comes down to user obsession and product taste.
↗Navigating co-founder relationships is a journey that takes self examination and discovery.
↗How Top 1% Founders Navigate Co-founder Conflict
↗Dylan Field describes design as “art as it applies to problem solving.”
↗From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company
↗Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in”
↗GPT-4.5 = Big Model Energy | YC Decoded
↗Vibe Coding Is The Future
↗AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review
↗Gustaf’s Startup Framework For Spending Money
↗How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas