Y Combinator
Přednášky, rozhovory a rady od nejprestižnějšího startupového akcelerátoru na světě.
Přednášky, rozhovory a rady od nejprestižnějšího startupového akcelerátoru na světě.
Introducing the YC Early Access Network. 4x a year, senior technology leaders get early looks at YC's enterprise AI companies and help shape their roadmaps. Invite-only, by application. Fall '26 kicks
Harnesses get dismissed as just scaffolding, just prompt engineering, and not real research. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. The same model weights that score 30% on ARC-AGI score 95% wit
Paul Graham on what drives founders through the hard parts: “Being dutiful is not enough. The obstacles are too fearsome for mere dutifulness.” “You know what actually motivates founders day to day? T
At Heart Aerospace, Anders Forslund built the company one material milestone at a time, using each one to earn the credibility and capital to build the next. “We really had no technology. I came to YC
Ollama (YC W21) is used by 9 million developers and 85% of the Fortune 500, giving co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Morgan a unique view into which AI models people are actually using and how that’s changin
YC Visiting Partner Vivian Shen sits down with Paul Graham at the original YC office in Mountain View to talk about startups, AI, ambition, and what makes great founders. Apply to Y Combinator: https:
Heart Aerospace (YC W19) just flew the largest electric airplane ever flown — a 100-foot wingspan, a takeoff weight of 25,000 pounds, and $5 of electricity to get it off the ground. In this episode of
Today, more than 3% of the world’s lawyers use Legora, and the company has grown from $1 million to $100 million in ARR since launching in October 2024. At Startup School 2026, Legora co-founder and C
This week's YC Paper Club is focused on data. Three domain experts give talks to break down the challenges and frontiers of training data, benchmarks, and multilingual pre-training. Apply to Y Combina
Michael Kratsios has seen the AI boom from both sides: as COO of Scale AI and inside the White House. Today, as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he helps shape
Susan Kare joined Apple as an art history PhD who barely knew anything about computers. She went on to design many of the icons, typefaces, and symbols that helped make the original Macintosh feel und
Robots can already fold laundry, make espresso, clean kitchens, and assemble things. The harder problem is getting them to do those tasks reliably, for long periods of time, without a human babysittin
In this episode of Full Stack, Circleback CEO Ali Haghani shows his work setup and explains why recording meetings with AI notetakers is quickly becoming a necessary practice for teams and companies.
Last November, Peter Steinberger was annoyed that there was no good way to talk to his coding agents from his phone, so he built one himself. A few months later, OpenClaw had exploded into one of the
This week's Paper Club is all about robotics. Every year for the last decade, someone has promised that the era of robotics is just around the corner. But we're still waiting. So we gathered a bunch o
Science is building a retinal implant that restores vision to people who have gone blind. One patient has already used it to read a 300-page novel. Building a company like that requires a lot more tha
AI isn't just changing the tools designers use. It's changing how they build, ship, and stand out. In this episode of Design Review, Stephen Haney, founder of AI-native design tool Paper, joins YC Gen
The next generation of startups will be built by smaller teams than ever before. At Startup School 2026, YC President & CEO Garry Tan explains why we're entering the era of personal AGI: AI agents tha
Philip Johnston is the co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, the company building data centers in space. In November 2025, Starcloud launched an Nvidia H100 GPU into orbit and trained the first large langu
Waymo’s first autonomous demo took eighteen months. The product took fifteen years. Today, the Waymo Driver runs 500,000 trips a week — four million fully autonomous miles across fifteen cities, with
In 2009, Patrick and John Collison went to Startup School in Berkeley, got sushi in Potrero Hill afterward, and decided on the walk home to start Stripe. The reasoning, as Patrick remembers it, was th
In 2001, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat did the math and realized Google’s entire search index would fit in RAM — then shipped it in a few days, and search got fast. In 2013, another napkin calculation
At our latest YC Paper Club, researchers and builders presented on multi-GPU kernel optimization, intelligence per watt for local inference, AI-generated GPU kernels and benchmarking, heterogeneous in
Alexandr Wang's advice to his 18-year-old self: develop your own internal compass for how the future will unfold, and hold conviction in it against the noise. At Startup School 2026, the Scale AI (YC