Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”

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 S16) founder — now leading Meta's Superintelligence Labs — talks with Garry Tan about rebuilding a frontier lab from scratch, why talent density compounds, and how to spot the exponential worth betting your twenties on. Transcript: https://www.ycrootaccess.com/p/alexandr-wang-building-a-frontier Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com