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  1. Wow, the comment about most people not spending enough time brainstorming and the result is putting out content that's not unique and just a derivative of other influences is SO spot on šŸ‘Œ
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  2. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up: YC Batch Energy, Platform Shift, Growth 00:36 - Intro: YC Winter 2024 batch big trends 01:51 - AI companies in the batch 02:11 - Replicate Story 02:40 - Consumer ideas return in batch 03:21 - Pivoting into consumer ideas 04:46 - Boring B2B SaaS vs Consumer apps 06:45 - Developer tools trend 08:34 - DevTools business model 09:48 - Open source parallel to Consumer social 11:23 - Supabase Hacker News story and 73 companies use it 13:08 - Open Source Dev Tools 13:37 - Most technical batch ever and why? 14:39 - Example: Flexport 16:41 - Tech platform shift and tech enabled 17:53 - What really matters: Gross Margin 18:51 - YC companies that has gone public 20:31 - What has YC funded less of? 21:11 - Fintech 22:18 - International companies and Companies In Bay Area 23:46 - Marketplace and Crypto 26:50 - Example: MIT crypto story 30:40 - Median age of the YC batch 31:56 - AI companies: Product Day 33:24 - BookFace launch: Live Demo 36:15 - Retail AI 37:09 - ARR of the batch 38:49 - In-person investor reception 39:38 - Octolane AI: Salesforce rebuild 40:33 - What's in store for the next batch? Most pivots 41:42 - Summary: We are just getting started
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  3. The wisdom and advice you guys put out is always incredible. I love the upgrades to the production quality too! šŸ˜
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  4. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up: Founders embarrassed by product launches 00:57 - Why do founders avoid launching companies? 02:17 - Why is it bad to wait? 02:55 - Dangerous Myths: Pop culture knowledge 04:02 - Why first-time founders feel precious about it? 05:07 - Cool thing about YC: Peer Pressure 06:35 - Launch to find the right customers & Love rejection 08:26 - Asking yourself and not upsetting myself 10:59 - You launch and no one uses it 12:07 - Tweaking vs Pivoting 13:16 - How do you break the fear? Focus on the goal 14:19 - Advice for founders in the pre-launch phase 16:46 - Launching too early 17:45 - Early stage YC startups 18:05 - Outro
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  5. So fascinating. And oh boi is she delightful, just watching her speak lifted up my depression =) I'd always love to watch more videos on drug research, nootropics, biohacking. I bet you guys could get Kevin Rose or Serge Faguet as guests, they're into this stuff.
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  6. Craig the questions asked were really good and on point. It really gets fundamental details out of Peter. Thank you for this amazing conversation
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  7. Interviewer is brilliant too. Knows how to draw out whats in the other guy's head
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  8. MKBHD has been throwing around the idea of a podcast for a while, and Iā€™m glad to see that he has followed through. This is such a great podcast! Great questions, and great answers!
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  9. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:17 - Intro 00:27 - Founder Mode Origin 02:01 - The Core Message 02:55 - Late Stage Founders 04:33 - Management Layers 05:37 - Bureaucracy 08:44 - Great Managers 09:47 - Investors vs Founders 10:38 - Viral Ideas 12:09 - The Blame Game 12:52 - Outro
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  10. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro: Discussing tarpit ideas with users 00:29 - Tarpit 2.0: Real Definition 02:47 - Key Factors: Tarpit ideas are insanely attractive 04:18 - Technology & Historical Factor 05:18 - X for Y 06:16 - Current Technology only solve Currently Problems 06:54 - Artificial Intelligence: Funding Companies Post LLM World 08:48 - Changing Behavior: Flavors of Tarpits 10:09 - Arbitrage: Fast money, Wall Street influence, and startup success 11:14 - Wall Street bets inspired startup ideas 12:40 - Takeaway: Too Good To Be True 13:40 - Outro
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  11. nice watch :-)
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  12. This is the best one so far in the series.
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  13. So simple. So valuable. Thank you.
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  14. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:30 - Intro: Focus 00:45 - Focus = Winning 02:01 - Complexity ā‰  Win 03:10 - Taking Credit 04:37 - Founder's Force 06:39 - Beginner Persona 08:25 - YC Alum Persona 10:37 - Does anyone love your product 12:06 - Year End Reflection and Change 13:31 - Everything is in the founder's hands 14:06 - Founders doing the best: It's the shortest meetings 16:44 - Outro
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  15. Concise, valuable and highly practical advice, thanks YC and TripleByte!
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  16. I like that this podcast models an iterative process. From the development of the name to the little chapters on the video being highlighted versus popping up.
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  17. PB! Please write a book!!
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  18. That solo founder life...!
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  19. He's so jovial! I enjoyed learning about Paystack because I am in the US and currently working on starting a business in Nigeria.
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  20. Ryan is awesome, a great example for a founder.
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  21. The chemistry and vibe between the original 4 of this group is so amazing..they literally understand each other inside out
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  22. Not bad interviewer who doesn't seem to have a physics background
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  23. Literally one of my favorite CEOs right now!
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  24. Solid conversation! Peter is super smart and humble. I appreciate his candor on everything
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  25. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:49 - Intro: Generative AI for Video 01:13 - Sora Videos 05:05 - How Sora works under the hood? 08:19 - How expensive is it to generate videos vs. texts? 08:55 - How do YC companies build foundation models with just $500K? 10:01 - Demos: Infinity AI 11:23 - Sync Labs' hack to train a Lip Sync Model with a single A100 GPU 12:45 - YC deal with Azure 13:41 - How Sonauto Built a Text-to-Song Model 15:44 - Metalware: Hardware Co-Pilot 17:40 - Guide Labs: Explainable Foundation Model 18:20 - Building your own models vs. Using existing open source models 19:29 - Phind's Clever Hack: Synthetic Data 22:03 - Simulating real-world physics: Atmo (Foundational model for weather prediction) 24:21 - AI in Biology: Diffuse Bio 25:36 - Piramidal: Foundational model for the human brain 27:15 - AI in Robotics: K-Scale Labs 28:58 - DraftAid: AI Models for CAD Design 30:38 - Playground going against giants and Suhail Doshi Background 31:42 - Companies pivoting into AI 32:44 - Takeaway Message 33:20 - Outro
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  26. Marquez is an impact in my life, I really love talking about tech but my friends don't. With Marquez I realised I could use YouTube to portray my passion which resulted in creation of my channel
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  27. 5:40 a thinking rock looking at hot rocks
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  28. One of the best YC podcasts I have heard
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  29. Can you please share more African stories
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  30. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 0:00 Intro 1:15 Why the GPT wrapper was a bad meme 4:44 Enterprise users just care about getting workflow done 8:38 What does it mean for startups as intelligence becomes a commodity? 12:47 Do Fortune 500ā€™s have any interest in underlying models? 20:19 What are enterprise execs thinking about AI right now? 27:04 Is Box investing in internal AI tools? 28:17 What will enterprises build internally and what will they buy solutions for? 34:50 Is enterprise concerned with third-parties and security? 36:16 Shout-outs to Aaron! 39:46 The transition from cloud to AI 48:38 Outro
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  31. Beside the content, I like how the mantra got framed and stands behind him :D
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  32. you people are doing a Great Job!!! Sam always have a Deep Insight of what he says... Thanks for sharing...
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  33. Outstanding interview. Very profound answers of one of the top minds of mankind. But that's also thanks to the one asking those questions: very good job! Thanks for this video.
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  34. Great interview Craig!! Keep up! And yes, you really do not understand something until you can explain it clearly to someone else. Incidentally I think the best way to learn something is imagining your role as a teacher teaching it. Dr. Susskind is a titan
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  35. Thank you so much for providing this content. You have top-notch production with clear and concise instruction; it is rare to see in this space. No fake guru, no fluff. Subbed šŸ‘
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  36. I love watching YC videos and the videos Garry Tan made on his channel. It taught me a lot and inspired me to go further with more determination in working on my startup.
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  37. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro: Computer Use 00:34 - Landscape for AI agents 01:21 - How does Claude computer use work? 03:35 - Demo: Claude diverse tasks 04:39 - Now models can fit the tools 05:20 - Computer is a work in progress 06:57 - Startups in the space and the future 07:43 - Outro
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  38. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro: Predictions for 2025 00:18 - Nobel prizes 01:15 - Cryptos mainstream adoption: Stablecoins 03:40 - Dogecoin will go up 05:42 - Zoom call with an AI 06:40 - Outro
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  39. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro: Early-stage founders need time for learning 00:14 - YC partners discuss do things that don't scale culture 01:07 - Silicon Valley's obsession with scalable business models 05:41 - Airbnb founders inspired by Paul Grahams urgency 07:52 - Unscalable examples Fleeks clothing marketplace 11:23 - Algolia's support for Product Hunt paid off 12:24 - Strong, exciting founders focus on learning, self-service 13:14 - YC works with best founders for learning, trenches with customers 13:29 - Founder FaceTime with customers advantages, sales tips from Ryan 14:12 - Tips for successful sales and marketing 16:12 - Instacart bought Trader Joes for Instacart deal 19:00 - DoorDash founders describe smart one-day tech build 23:05 - Scale up early, avoid consulting revenue addiction 25:13 - Outro: Experiment quickly and fail fast
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  40. its criminal how little "failures" are covered in tech land. sad to see an useful company shut down (rather than just another delivery app). thanks to avni for sharing her thoughts
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  41. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:41 - Intro 01:09 - Googles internal view of AI 03:13 - Early at Google: Envision of AI 04:55 - Power of AI: Spelling Corrector 08:34 - Why Google isn't the dominant AI company in the world? 11:57 - OpenAI spun out of YC 13:41 - Google DeepMind Acquisition and YC Research 14:31 - Open-Source Models 16:09 - OpenAI founding story 18:10 - Why OpenAI worked? 20:56 - Control vs Freedom: Zuck the hero of Open Source 22:21 - Meta is not making money on this 23:31 - How will we get large models if it costs a billion dollars to train 24:51 - Why Zuck is incentivized to keep funneling money into open source? 29:31 - How is AI and AGI going to break in the next few years? 31:33 - Why is AGI not the unanimous view amongst smart people? 34:40 - Bookface Future: We won't distinguish a knowledge Worker 38:25 - How AI relates to Geopolitics 42:10 - Tipping point for Doomers or Optimists 44:02 - Human ego will get in the way of AI progress 44:45 - YC and Startup community has a role to play 45:46 - United Health Care Group blocking AI calls for getting claims cleared 47:36 - AI enables successful startups without massive team 48:16 - Outro
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  42. I wish I can like this video more than once like on Medium
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  43. The host did a great job
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  44. Wow. This is extremely high quality, so many new and good ideas!
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  45. Tim is great, love his writing!
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  46. This video is actually great for new apllicants, thanks YC for having lots of resources of information!
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  47. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - What we'll cover 01:11 - Dev Tool Examples 02:08 - The Founding Stage 02:42 - Good and bad DevTool ideas 05:02 - LLM and AI Trend 07:15 - Where do you start? 07:36 - Prototype 09:54 - Talk with users 10:43 - Outreach 11:54 - Launching 14:00 - Do things that don't scale 16:06 - Go To Market (GTM) 17:12 - Open Source Benefits 18:18 - Example: Medplum 18:31 - Monetization approaches 20:57 - Sales 21:33 - Hiring a sales team 22:41 - Example: PostHog 24:58 - Developer Marketing 27:22 - Support for developers 28:26 - Example: Algolia 30:51 - Wrap Up 32:24 - Outro: Best marketing person for the product
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  48. Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:24 - Intro 01:04 - Artisan AI 02:52 - Bottomless 04:44 - Using animation to draw attention and become more memorable 06:07 - Cloudthread 09:21 - Integrated Reasoning 12:27 - Kapacity 14:21 - Rollstack 15:18 - Design Rule #1: Don't Make Me Think 17:30 - Ampstem 19:12 - Bert Labs 19:57 - Why Google deprioritizes websites with heavy load? 20:38 - Outro
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  49. Super advice ! Every thing is actionable. Thanks Gustaf and YC.
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  50. I went through YC in the S18 batch and it's amazing to see how YC keeps getting better and better! Go YC!
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