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State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
66K views
4 days ago
Garry, Harj, Diana, and Jared break down what they've learned from working with hundreds of founders building with LLMs: why prompting still matters, where it breaks down, and how teams are making it more reliable in production.
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31:26
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
66K views
4 days ago
30:08
AI Apps Are Broken — Here's How To Fix Them
52K views
11 days ago
40:47
Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
167K views
18 days ago
19:12
How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job
77K views
25 days ago
52:36
Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding
192K views
1 month ago
16:40
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding
186K views
1 month ago
8:30
The Next Breakthrough In AI Agents Is Here
254K views
1 month ago
38:24
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup
165K views
1 month ago
20:44
Why Every Founder Should Care About Design
43K views
2 months ago
31:33
How To Build The Future: Tony Xu
127K views
2 months ago
43:15
How To Navigate Co-Founder Disputes
42K views
2 months ago
26:12
Customer Obsession Made Gusto A $9.6 Billion Company
26K views
2 months ago
37:42
The Future Of Design With Figma's Dylan Field
55K views
2 months ago
8:26
GPT-4.5 = Big Model Energy
30K views
2 months ago
31:34
Vibe Coding Is The Future
253K views
3 months ago
36:28
Design Experts Critique AI Interfaces
145K views
3 months ago
34:39
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas
119K views
3 months ago
49:29
How AI Is Changing Enterprise
107K views
3 months ago
13:46
Building A Supersonic Plane Company From The Ground Up
77K views
3 months ago
29:07
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup
56K views
3 months ago
43:49
How To Get AI Startup Ideas
205K views
3 months ago
13:06
The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek | YC Decoded
204K views
3 months ago
30:45
How To Build The AGI Future: Bob McGrew
46K views
4 months ago
39:33
AI Revolution: Why This Is The Best Time To Start A Startup
181K views
4 months ago
10:12
How Scaling Laws Will Determine AI's Future
36K views
4 months ago
14:18
How To Use AI In Your Startup
78K views
4 months ago
43:28
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad
53K views
4 months ago
24:32
Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder
83K views
4 months ago
7:03
The Lightcone 2025 Forecast
49K views
5 months ago
16:57
How To Focus On The Right Problems
143K views
5 months ago
19:33
How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos
345K views
5 months ago
38:11
2024’s Biggest Startup Trends
97K views
5 months ago
7:54
Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use Is A Game Changer
132K views
5 months ago
21:16
How To Make The Most Out of Your 20s
618K views
6 months ago
32:57
How To Start A Dev Tools Company
54K views
6 months ago
42:13
Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS
849K views
6 months ago
22:43
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders
39K views
6 months ago
35:17
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling
79K views
6 months ago
46:52
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman
644K views
6 months ago
15:58
The AI Future Has Arrived: Here's What You Should Do About It
132K views
7 months ago
33:45
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ
60K views
7 months ago
13:41
You Don’t Have To Be A Billionaire To Launch Satellites
27K views
7 months ago
7:07
Why OpenAI's o1 Is A Huge Deal
40K views
7 months ago
17:55
Starting A Company? The Key Terms You Should Know
60K views
7 months ago
37:14
Now Anyone Can Code: How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App
92K views
7 months ago
33:38
Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb
49K views
7 months ago
18:34
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start?
101K views
7 months ago
24:17
Meta VS Apple: What Their Battle Means For AI Startups
38K views
7 months ago
37:06
Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities
419K views
8 months ago
21:06
Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Reviews Startup Websites
84K views
8 months ago
20:38
How To Find A Co-Founder
70K views
8 months ago
13:02
What Founder Mode Really Means
94K views
8 months ago
55:52
Building The World's Best Image Diffusion Model
18K views
8 months ago
17:40
Signs Your Company Is Recovering From ZIRP
21K views
8 months ago
32:46
How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails
74K views
8 months ago
59:00
How YC Was Created With Jessica Livingston
23K views
9 months ago
9:45
Why AI Hasn’t Blown Our Minds…Yet
50K views
9 months ago
29:23
How To Improve Cohort Retention
41K views
9 months ago
37:36
Are We In An AI Hype Cycle?
71K views
9 months ago
12:32
How To Influence Decision Makers
48K views
9 months ago
19:35
Co-Founder Equity Mistakes to Avoid
185K views
9 months ago
21:11
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years
112K views
9 months ago
48:44
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit On AGI, Open Source Models, Freedom
59K views
9 months ago
12:29
The Problem With Startup "Experts"
44K views
10 months ago
17:46
How To Price For B2B
94K views
10 months ago
13:50
Tarpit Ideas: The Sequel
78K views
10 months ago
18:18
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think
84K views
10 months ago
38:24
10 People + AI = Billion Dollar Company?
203K views
11 months ago
18:23
What Is ZIRP And How Did It Poison Startups?
65K views
11 months ago
12:07
Standing Up For Startups - YC Goes To D.C.
17K views
11 months ago
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41:07
Better AI Models, Better Startups [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 7]
83K views
1 year ago
25:42
YC's Group Partners Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale
192K views
1 year ago
8:16
How New Technology Creates New Businesses
63K views
1 year ago
21:12
Does Your Startup Website Pass The First Impression Test?
48K views
1 year ago
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42:22
Consumer is back, What’s getting funded now, The vibes immaculate [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 6]
88K views
1 year ago
12:11
When Should You Trust Your Gut?
61K views
1 year ago
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48:37
Inside The Hard Tech Startups Turning Sci-Fi Into Reality [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 5]
72K views
1 year ago
9:35
How to Survive the Crypto Boom & Bust Cycle
14K views
1 year ago
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34:06
Building AI Models Faster And Cheaper Than You Think [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 4]
84K views
1 year ago
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33:27
Where Is The REAL Cerebral Valley? [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 3]
81K views
1 year ago
11:59
Stop Innovating (On The Wrong Things)
88K views
1 year ago
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27:59
Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future? [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 2]
97K views
1 year ago
![The Truth About Building AI Startups Today [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 1]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TwDJhUJL-5o/hqdefault.jpg)
32:27
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 1]
490K views
1 year ago
14:25
Backstory: Tom Blomfield
212K views
1 year ago
10:35
Do technical founders need a business co-founder?
133K views
1 year ago
16:16
The asymmetric upside of being positive
41K views
1 year ago
23:18
Five DevTool Startups Get Their Websites Reviewed
37K views
1 year ago
15:14
Does your tech startup really need a technical co-founder? Yes.
482K views
1 year ago
Emmett Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch
1 year ago
17:29
The 10-Year “Overnight” Success Story of Casetext
36K views
1 year ago
12:21
From Underdog to Undefeated: The Edrizio De La Cruz founder story
10K views
1 year ago
23:50
How to convert more visitors into customers
44K views
1 year ago
3:04
Why YC? We asked 50 founders why they applied to Y Combinator
20K views
1 year ago
Bill Clerico, Co-Founder & CEO of WePay
1 year ago
12:48
How Athelas is revolutionizing healthcare
19K views
1 year ago
13:32
Is it time to quit your job at a unicorn?
47K views
1 year ago
Dimitri Dadiomov, Co-Founder & CEO of Modern Treasury
1 year ago
11:52
Backstory: Surbhi Sarna
50K views
1 year ago
7:05
Founder FAQ: 40 AI startup founders on the current state of AI tech
49K views
1 year ago
Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO of Coinbase
1 year ago
17:35
Dalton & Michael: Why You Shouldn't Copy Your Tech Idols
98K views
1 year ago
24:03
Building a better mobile app
128K views
1 year ago
Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO of Airbnb (Part II)
1 year ago
11:40
Dalton & Michael: Why Investors (Secretly) Love Y Combinator
45K views
1 year ago
26:09
YC's Group Partners share their worst investor meetings
116K views
1 year ago
4:00
Founder FAQ: How did you get your first customer?
101K views
1 year ago
15:18
Dalton & Michael: Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco?
70K views
1 year ago
3:53
Founder FAQ: How did you meet your co-founder?
62K views
1 year ago
20:49
YC's Group Partners share their favorite pivot stories
131K views
1 year ago
13:21
Dalton & Michael: Will OpenAI kill all startups?
135K views
1 year ago
31:26
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
66K views
4 days ago
30:08
AI Apps Are Broken — Here's How To Fix Them
52K views
11 days ago
40:47
Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
167K views
18 days ago
Startup School
17:14
Should you start a startup?
467K views
Over 1 year ago
32:22
How to get startup ideas
1M views
Over 1 year ago
16:53
How to build an MVP
1.1M views
Over 1 year ago
28:12
How startup fundraising works
366K views
Over 1 year ago
24:52
How to apply and succeed at YC
238K views
Over 1 year ago
31:45
Keys To Successful Co-Founder Relationships
132K views
Over 1 year ago
32:44
YC guide to business models
498K views
Over 1 year ago
22:54
How to get your first customers
448K views
Over 1 year ago
17:31
How to talk to users
241K views
Over 1 year ago
21:08
The best way to launch your startup
268K views
Over 1 year ago
28:13
Tips for technical startup founders
169K views
Over 1 year ago
27:27
Setting KPIs and goals
83K views
1 year ago
23:47
Key Startup Metrics
99K views
1 year ago
22:26
Consumer Startup Metrics
67K views
1 year ago
23:07
Enterprise Sales for Founders
118K views
10 months ago
17:46
How To Price For B2B
94K views
10 months ago
19:35
Co-Founder Equity Mistakes to Avoid
185K views
9 months ago
29:23
How To Improve Cohort Retention
41K views
9 months ago
32:46
How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails
74K views
8 months ago
20:38
How To Find A Co-Founder
70K views
8 months ago
17:55
Starting A Company? The Key Terms You Should Know
60K views
7 months ago
32:57
How To Start A Dev Tools Company
54K views
6 months ago
16:40
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding
186K views
1 month ago
17:14
Should you start a startup?
467K views
Over 1 year ago
32:22
How to get startup ideas
1M views
Over 1 year ago
16:53
How to build an MVP
1.1M views
Over 1 year ago
Lightcone Podcast
31:26
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
66K views
4 days ago
40:47
Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
167K views
18 days ago
52:36
Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding
192K views
1 month ago
43:15
How To Navigate Co-Founder Disputes
42K views
2 months ago
31:34
Vibe Coding Is The Future
253K views
3 months ago
49:29
How AI Is Changing Enterprise
107K views
3 months ago
43:49
How To Get AI Startup Ideas
205K views
3 months ago
39:33
AI Revolution: Why This Is The Best Time To Start A Startup
181K views
4 months ago
7:03
The Lightcone 2025 Forecast
49K views
5 months ago
38:11
2024’s Biggest Startup Trends
97K views
5 months ago
42:13
Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS
849K views
6 months ago
35:17
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling
79K views
6 months ago
33:45
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ
60K views
7 months ago
37:14
Now Anyone Can Code: How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App
92K views
7 months ago
37:06
Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities
419K views
8 months ago
55:52
Building The World's Best Image Diffusion Model
18K views
8 months ago
59:00
How YC Was Created With Jessica Livingston
23K views
9 months ago
37:36
Are We In An AI Hype Cycle?
71K views
9 months ago
48:44
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit On AGI, Open Source Models, Freedom
59K views
9 months ago
38:24
10 People + AI = Billion Dollar Company?
203K views
11 months ago
41:07
Better AI Models, Better Startups [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 7]
83K views
1 year ago
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19:10
Why This Is The Perfect Time To Start A Startup [Lightcone Podcast LIVE]
94K views
1 year ago
42:22
Consumer is back, What’s getting funded now, The vibes immaculate [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 6]
88K views
1 year ago
48:37
Inside The Hard Tech Startups Turning Sci-Fi Into Reality [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 5]
72K views
1 year ago
34:06
Building AI Models Faster And Cheaper Than You Think [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 4]
84K views
1 year ago
33:27
Where Is The REAL Cerebral Valley? [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 3]
81K views
1 year ago
27:59
Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future? [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 2]
97K views
1 year ago
32:27
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today [Lightcone Podcast Ep. 1]
490K views
1 year ago
31:26
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
66K views
4 days ago
40:47
Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
167K views
18 days ago
52:36
Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding
192K views
1 month ago
How To Build The Future
38:24
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup
165K views
1 month ago
31:33
How To Build The Future: Tony Xu
127K views
2 months ago
37:42
The Future Of Design With Figma's Dylan Field
55K views
2 months ago
34:39
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas
119K views
3 months ago
30:45
How To Build The AGI Future: Bob McGrew
46K views
4 months ago
43:28
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad
53K views
4 months ago
46:52
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman
644K views
6 months ago
36:10
Jessica Livingston on how to build the future
113K views
Over 1 year ago
19:33
Elon Musk on how to build the future
2M views
Over 1 year ago
25:27
Mark Zuckerberg on building a startup
1.9M views
Over 1 year ago
34:33
Vinod Khosla on How to Build the Future
195K views
Over 1 year ago
31:00
On starting and scaling Dropbox (YC W07)
81K views
Over 1 year ago
21:10
How to Build the Future
494K views
Over 1 year ago
28:21
On starting and scaling healthcare startup 23andMe
46K views
Over 1 year ago
38:24
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup
165K views
1 month ago
31:33
How To Build The Future: Tony Xu
127K views
2 months ago
37:42
The Future Of Design With Figma's Dylan Field
55K views
2 months ago
YC Decoded
7:54
Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use Is A Game Changer
132K views
5 months ago
10:12
How Scaling Laws Will Determine AI's Future
36K views
4 months ago
8:30
The Next Breakthrough In AI Agents Is Here
254K views
1 month ago
13:06
The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek | YC Decoded
204K views
3 months ago
7:07
Why OpenAI's o1 Is A Huge Deal
40K views
7 months ago
8:26
GPT-4.5 = Big Model Energy
30K views
2 months ago
7:54
Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use Is A Game Changer
132K views
5 months ago
10:12
How Scaling Laws Will Determine AI's Future
36K views
4 months ago
8:30
The Next Breakthrough In AI Agents Is Here
254K views
1 month ago
Office Hours
29:07
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup
56K views
3 months ago
14:18
How To Use AI In Your Startup
78K views
4 months ago
18:34
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start?
101K views
7 months ago
18:18
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think
84K views
10 months ago
25:42
YC's Group Partners Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale
192K views
1 year ago
16:22
YC’s Group Partners share productivity tips and advice on actually getting things done
139K views
1 year ago
26:09
YC's Group Partners share their worst investor meetings
116K views
1 year ago
20:49
YC's Group Partners share their favorite pivot stories
131K views
1 year ago
29:07
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup
56K views
3 months ago
14:18
How To Use AI In Your Startup
78K views
4 months ago
18:34
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start?
101K views
7 months ago
Essays by Paul Graham
Do things that don't scale
Paul Graham
Startups take off because the founders make them take off. Almost all startups are fragile initially. It's important to recruit users manually.
Do things that don't scale
Over 1 year ago
Default alive or default dead
Paul Graham
Assuming expenses remain constant and revenue growth continues on trend, will your company make it to profitability on the money you have left? Are you default alive or dead?
Default alive or default dead
Over 1 year ago
How to convince investors
Paul Graham
You need three things: formidable founders, a promising market, and some evidence of success so far.
How to convince investors
Over 1 year ago
Design Review
20:44
Why Every Founder Should Care About Design
43K views
2 months ago
36:28
Design Experts Critique AI Interfaces
145K views
3 months ago
33:38
Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb
49K views
7 months ago
21:06
Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Reviews Startup Websites
84K views
8 months ago
21:12
Does Your Startup Website Pass The First Impression Test?
48K views
1 year ago
23:18
Five DevTool Startups Get Their Websites Reviewed
37K views
1 year ago
23:50
How to convert more visitors into customers
44K views
1 year ago
24:03
Building a better mobile app
128K views
1 year ago
24:01
Critiquing AI startup websites with YC President Garry Tan
142K views
1 year ago
24:10
Critiquing startup websites with Webflow CEO Vlad Magdalin
64K views
Over 1 year ago
23:13
Critiquing startup websites with Instacart's first designer, Zain Ali
74K views
Over 1 year ago
20:44
Why Every Founder Should Care About Design
43K views
2 months ago
36:28
Design Experts Critique AI Interfaces
145K views
3 months ago
33:38
Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb
49K views
7 months ago
The Main Function
21:11
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years
112K views
9 months ago
12:07
Standing Up For Startups - YC Goes To D.C.
17K views
11 months ago
9:35
How to Survive the Crypto Boom & Bust Cycle
14K views
1 year ago
17:29
The 10-Year “Overnight” Success Story of Casetext
36K views
1 year ago
12:07
The Immigrant Journey Behind A Silicon Valley Success Story
41K views
Over 1 year ago
6:54
The Main Function: How to go from startup dream to reality
80K views
1 year ago
21:11
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years
112K views
9 months ago
12:07
Standing Up For Startups - YC Goes To D.C.
17K views
11 months ago
9:35
How to Survive the Crypto Boom & Bust Cycle
14K views
1 year ago
Garry Tan's Channel
62:05
The Untold Stories of Y Combinator with Co-Founder Jessica Livingston
13K views
1 year ago
13:17
Day in the Life of Y Combinator President & CEO Garry Tan during the first week of the batch
39K views
1 year ago
12:31
The Secrets of Y Combinator’s Early Success (with YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston)
25K views
1 year ago
12:37
How psychedelics will change society for the better
7,107 views
1 year ago
12:21
From Underdog to Undefeated: The Edrizio De La Cruz founder story
10K views
1 year ago
12:48
How Athelas is revolutionizing healthcare
19K views
1 year ago
15:33
Garry's Channel: Stop chasing money -- Chase wealth
784K views
Over 1 year ago
8:24
Garry's Channel: How I turned $300k into $2 billion
385K views
Over 1 year ago
13:57
Garry's Channel: LEARN, EARN or QUIT | My job/career advice
364K views
Over 1 year ago
5:34
Garry's Channel: My $200 million startup mistake
319K views
Over 1 year ago
8:58
Garry's Channel: Billion dollar startup ideas
319K views
Over 1 year ago
7:40
Garry Tan's tips for applying to YC
111K views
Over 1 year ago
13:26
Garry's Channel: YOU can beat Google the way Amazon does. Here’s how.
244K views
Over 1 year ago
44:17
Garry's Channel: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on cryptocurrency and the future of decentralization
223K views
Over 1 year ago
13:46
Garry's Channel: 6 Skills for Successful Startup Founders
169K views
Over 1 year ago
14:39
Garry's Channel: How REAL movements start, then change the world
137K views
Over 1 year ago
10:27
Garry's Channel: Billion dollar startups are better, faster, or cheaper
109K views
Over 1 year ago
44:29
Garry's Channel: Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on scaling a startup from zero to $8B
120K views
Over 1 year ago
10:45
Garry's Channel: Figma's $20B, 10 year overnight success
101K views
Over 1 year ago
7:08
Garry's Channel: Should you be the CEO?
98K views
Over 1 year ago
14:36
Garry's Channel: How To DESIGN EVERYTHING if you don't know ANYTHING
101K views
Over 1 year ago
9:12
Garry's Channel: 3 steps for billion dollar startups (How Airbnb & DoorDash succeeded)
98K views
Over 1 year ago
17:15
Garry's Channel: Why now? The key to million dollar startup ideas
105K views
Over 1 year ago
8:08
Garry's Channel: An interview with Kai Stinchcombe, founder of True Link Financial
8,916 views
1 year ago
62:05
The Untold Stories of Y Combinator with Co-Founder Jessica Livingston
13K views
1 year ago
13:17
Day in the Life of Y Combinator President & CEO Garry Tan during the first week of the batch
39K views
1 year ago
12:31
The Secrets of Y Combinator’s Early Success (with YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston)
25K views
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The Social Radars Podcast
Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy & Instalab
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Edith Elliott, Co-Founder & CEO of Noora Health
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Steve Huffman, Co-Founder & CEO of Reddit
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Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator
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Tracy Young, Co-Founder & CEO of PlanGrid
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Trevor Blackwell, Co-founder Y Combinator; Founder, Anybots
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Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO of Coinbase
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Yuri Sagalov, Co-Founder of AeroFS
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Dimitri Dadiomov, Co-Founder & CEO of Modern Treasury
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Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
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Tony Xu, Co-Founder & CEO of Doordash
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Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO of Airbnb (Part II)
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Patrick & John Collison, Co-Founders of Stripe
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David Lieb, Creator of Google Photos
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Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO of Airbnb
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Paul Buchheit, Creator of Gmail
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Parker Conrad, Founder of Zenefits & Rippling
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Emmett Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch
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Bill Clerico, Co-Founder & CEO of WePay
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Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy & Instalab
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Edith Elliott, Co-Founder & CEO of Noora Health
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Steve Huffman, Co-Founder & CEO of Reddit
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Founder FAQ
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How to Start a Startup - A course Y Combinator taught at Stanford
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How To Find A Co-Founder
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Pivoting
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YC's Group Partners share their favorite pivot stories
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How to get and test ideas
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How to get startup ideas
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Why smart people have bad ideas
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You come up with a random idea, plunge into it, then at each point (a day, a week, a month) feel you've put so much time into it that this must be THE idea.
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Fundraising and Equity
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Modern startup funding
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How startup fundraising works
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