Y Combinator, every mention
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Home Affordability Crisis, Palantir's Advantage, Big Short on AI, H-1B Abuse, Solar Storm Hits Earth
- ▶ 52:34 Jason Calacanis He's running essentially like an in-person Y Combinator network state.
Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- ▶ 1:24:15 Jason Calacanis Techstars or Y Combinator or other folks even know they exist, because half of them aren't incorporated yet, right?
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 8:47 David Friedberg This is like YC? 2 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
- ▶ 1:00:34 Jason Calacanis Next up, uh, we have Paul from Y Combinator.
- ▶ 1:01:11 Jason Calacanis Um, you're at Y Combinator now.
- ▶ 1:01:40 Jason Calacanis I think Paul Graham's great innovation at Y Combinator was saying, I'm just going to accept two or three people who actually build the product. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:41 David Friedberg Are you seeing in the applications you get to YC, or that you've heard of more physical AI, robotics, automation, those sorts of tooling?
- ▶ 1:07:37 Jason Calacanis It was kind of like the false start, but you did see a bunch of new entrants applying for Y Combinator or other things.
- ▶ 1:09:44 Paul Buchheit And so actually a lot of people don't know, we started OpenAI at Y Combinator, uh, 10 years ago in 2015.
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 1:21:21 Mark Pincus Those kinds of jobs have dried up, and the kinds of jobs that I think should be interesting to MBAs are more like, go find a Y Combinator company and join a founding team as the business person or whatever, and these people are smart and…
LA's Wildfire Disaster, Zuck Flips on Free Speech, Why Trump Wants Greenland
- ▶ 1:33:30 Jason Calacanis When you run an accelerator, like I do, Techstars, or Y Combinator, you aren't bound by that because 50% of the companies pivot almost by design.