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Přednášky, rozhovory a rady od nejprestižnějšího startupového akcelerátoru na světě.
Přednášky, rozhovory a rady od nejprestižnějšího startupového akcelerátoru na světě.
NVIDIA started with the wrong technology, learned the right one from three textbooks bought at Fry’s, and went on to invent most of the major breakthroughs in modern computing. At Startup School 2026
APIs change constantly, but the way providers communicate those changes is still broken. Breaking updates go unnoticed, new features get buried in changelogs, and customers often find out only after s
In this session from Startup School Paris, YC partners field questions from the audience on how founders should be operating in the AI era. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Wor
Financial compliance still runs on spreadsheets, disconnected software, and growing teams of specialists. As companies expand into new markets, the cost and complexity of staying compliant can grow fa
A finance worker recently wired $25 million after joining a video call with his CFO and colleagues. Every other person on the call was a deepfake. As voice and video become easier to fake, the interne
In this talk from Startup School Paris, AMI CEO Alexandre LeBrun talks about his journey building Vertos, selling Wit.ai to Facebook, and why the best advice for early founders is to pick an extremely
In this talk from Startup School Paris, Encord Co-CEO Eric Landau discusses leaving a lucrative quant career during the most profitable month his desk had ever seen, why PMF for Encord was a slow dail
AI has become superhuman at code, language, and images because it has enormous amounts of data to learn from. But our understanding of the physical world is still limited by sparse sensors and models
Most of the global workforce does not sit at a desk, but the software used to manage physical work has barely changed in decades. The next operating systems will coordinate humans, robots, and AI agen
In this chat at Startup School Paris, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel reflects on his startup journey in New York, how staying close to raw customer feedback and support tickets keeps an 8,000 person compan
Jay V is the founder and CEO of Opencode, an open-source alternative to Claude Code that works with any model you want. It's one of the fastest-growing products in AI: 13 million monthly active users,
In this chat from Startup School Paris, the founders of Photoroom expand on why going through YC transformed their ambition from a vague dream of building a billion-dollar company into a concrete, ach
Crypto is in a bear market, but the underlying technology is becoming more useful than ever. Stablecoins are spreading across financial institutions, tokenized assets are reshaping trading, fintech co
By 2030, one in five Americans will be over 65, and there are nowhere near enough caregivers to support them. AI could help older adults live safely and independently through better voice interfaces,
If you’re a scientist or researcher, you may be more prepared to start a company than you think. Before becoming founders, Arvind Veluvali, Ayman Saleh, and Dima Yanovsky all worked at NASA, where the
In this discussion at Startup School Paris, Dust co-founder Stanislas Polu reflects on his path from Stripe to OpenAI and why he and his co-founder decided to build their company in France. Apply to Y
Every major platform shift creates new consumer giants. But three years into the AI era, ChatGPT is still the only new icon on most people’s home screens. As intelligence gets better and dramatically
In this conversation from Startup School Paris, Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone explains how a frustrating firebase migration led to an open-source side project that became one of the fastest-growing de
AI is running out of compute, and data centers are running out of electricity and land. One possible solution is to move compute offshore. The ocean offers abundant space, sunlight, and natural coolin
The best work tools became more powerful when they became multiplayer. But AI is still mostly trapped in private chats, with agents working in sessions that teammates can’t join or influence. The next
Agents make it easy to build personal tools for yourself or your team. But deploying, securing, and sharing that software is still far more complicated than creating it. A cloud built for small softwa
Warfare is at an inflection point, and the old ways of Army acquisition simply don't keep pace with modern threats. The Army is replacing the old playbook with commercially developed, modular technolo
The best education has always come from one-on-one tutoring, but that privilege has historically been reserved for very few people. AI could give every child a patient, adaptive tutor that grows with
In this discussion from Startup School Paris, PostHog CEO James Hawkins reflects on a number of startup topics including going from one product to twenty, why European founders need to stop focusing o
In this episode of Decoded, Ankit and Francois walk through the motivation and math behind world models. They cover a number of areas including why sample efficiency is one of the biggest unsolved pro
AI isn't just changing the tools designers use. It's changing the way they think, prototype, and build. In this episode of Design Review, YC Head of Design Eve Bouffard joins General Partner Aaron Eps
One of the biggest mistakes founders make is relying on aggregate user metrics instead of understanding how any individuals use their product. In this episode of Startup School, YC General Partner Dav
Eddie Kim is the co-founder and Head of Technology at Gusto (W12), a payroll and HR platform serving over 500,000 small businesses in the U.S. that recently crossed $1 billion in annual revenue — with
In this final panel from Startup School India, the hosts reflect on why India's deep technical talent makes it uniquely positioned to produce some of the world's largest companies in this new AI wave
Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga and author of "Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love", which distills the product philosophy and founder playbook he developed across five companie
When most founders look for customers, they reach for cold email and automation tools. But your first 10 customers almost never come from a tool. They come from you, working your warm network and doin
Bryant Chou co-founded Webflow, which today powers around 1% of all websites on the internet. Now he's back in the current YC batch with Ploy, an AI-powered website and marketing platform that doesn't
Many founders get stuck trying to find the perfect startup idea before they commit. But the perfect idea doesn't exist in the abstract. The only way to find what works is to pick one, go deep, and get
Lalit Keshre is the co-founder and CEO of Groww (W18), India's largest retail investment platform, offering stocks, mutual funds, and wealth management products to millions of customers. At Startup Sc
It's hard to keep up with the latest AI research. That's why we started YC Paper Club — a small group of researchers, engineers, and founders who meet every two weeks at our Mountain View office to pr
Vidit Aatrey is the co-founder and CEO of Meesho (S16), an e-commerce platform built for mass-market India that has grown to about 1 millions sellers and 2.5 billion annual orders. Since launching in
Brex co-founder and CEO Pedro Franceschi believes most people still underestimate how much AI will change the way companies are built. AI isn't just another tool, it's a new foundation for building pr
Two days, packed with world-class speakers, hands-on demos, small group sessions with YC partners, and a room full of the most ambitious technical builders from around the world. July 25–26 in San Fra
Mukund Jha is the co-founder and CEO of Emergent, a platform that lets anyone without programming knowledge build, ship, and monetize real software by chatting with an AI agent. Launched roughly nine
Paxel is a free tool that helps you understand how you build with AI coding agents. It analyzes your Claude, Codex, and Cursor sessions and gives you a builder profile: how you plan, how you steer age
Max Junestrand was a college student in Sweden with a McKinsey offer in his back pocket. Instead, he and two co-founders went all in on legal AI — and built Legora (YC W24) into one of the fastest-gro