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#2306 Polsia: AI Agent + Zero Employees = $10M Run Rate
- ▶ 53:05 Andrew Warner I told you that the only reason I'm doing these interviews is I feel like there's an exciting future coming about the way that it was exciting when I started doing interviews with the Y Combinator founders in the beginning.
#2299 Zapier is using AI to sell to AI
- ▶ 29:56 Andrew Warner It's a wide combinator company.
#2292 AI Automation that makes cold calls
- ▶ 20:53 Evgeny Matze I wound the Y Combinator co-founder matching platform.
- ▶ 31:37 Andrew Warner I remember talking to Gary Tan, uh, president of Y Combinator, and he basically said, look, smaller teams are able to create so much more than they've ever done before.
#2289 Building companies using Zapier’s AI automations
- ▶ 24:16 Andrew Warner Actually, I was just talking to Gary Tan, Y Combinator.
#2287 AI made a “no code” founder into a coder
- ▶ 28:26 Andrew Warner That's so interesting because when I asked Gary Tan, uh, the head of Y Combinator, how he created his prompt for ChatGPT to create the perfect Gary Tan YouTube script, because he's big on YouTube, he essentially said the same thing.
#2281 Garry Tan: Y Combinator Startups Growing 5X Faster – Here’s What Changed
- ▶ 0:13 Garry Tan We're seeing routinely YC companies with 10 or 20 people get to 10 or twenty million dollars a year in revenue in 10 or 20 months. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14 Garry Tan When he first went through Y Combinator and that was also my first stint at YC as a partner. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:11 Garry Tan The cool thing about YC was that Jake basically had access to early versions of ChatGPT, GPT-III. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:05 Garry Tan One is obviously the one that, um, we're, you know, at Y Combinator, we, ah, you know, we believe in that we see it happen. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:07 Andrew Warner I want to know which direction you think, but I'm looking at the list of companies that you at YC have helped launch just in the fall of 20, 25.
- ▶ 22:55 Andrew Warner I also wonder if that's great for you, because what you're looking for at YC is not to have a bunch of small companies where the founder can live a good life, maybe buy a second home, but where they're building the, uh, the Mark Benioff… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:15 Andrew Warner I told you earlier that I would give you a great example of Y Combinator is like Inner Access. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:55 Andrew Warner One of the things that I've noticed that you've done different with Y Combinator is you added this sense of, first of all, video first. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:07 Garry Tan Continuity as a separate fund. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:37 Garry Tan And, uh, you know, I, I think that I'm pretty psyched about things like my buddy, my YC batch mate, Chris Bader, he has a company called Rosebud AI, which is a diary.
- ▶ 45:39 Andrew Warner Do you think one of these tools can, that's built on using, let's say, 11 Labs agent feature, do you think they could become a business that eventually ends up on Y Combinator? 3 times in the scene
#2280 Read.ai is adding 50k users per day
- ▶ 42:29 David Shim I think launching very quickly is kind of a, a, a thing that people said all the way back to the early days of Ycomber, fail quickly, push it out there.
#1001 The 1,000 interview celebration
- ▶ 16:54 Andrew Warner Jessica Livingston from Y Combinator will be here.
- ▶ 27:53 Andrew Warner She is the co-founder of the Seed Accelerator Y Combinator and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with entrepreneurs about how they built their companies. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:25 Noah Kagan And the second thing is, like with, with Hacker News, it's Y Combinator company, so instead of me trying to, like, force my way in there, I just went and got a lot of Y Combinator products on AppSumo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:53 Andrew Warner One of Y Combinator's big success stories. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:46 Andrew Warner Um, I've had the founder of Y Combinator come on here talk about how she helped tons of, not tons, hundreds of companies grow.
#400 Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now” – with Steve Huffman
- ▶ 1:49 Andrew Warner So, with seed funding from Y Combinator, in 2005, today's guest, Steve Huffman, co-founded Reddit, the social news site with over eight million monthly visitors. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:46 Andrew Warner You've stuck around Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:04 Steve Huffman So, so I, I think they have a similar story to that where they were, they had that company like nine months or a year before coming into Y Combinator and were having that problem. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:01 Andrew Warner I know now that Y Combinator screens heavily for that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:17 Steve Huffman Uh, well, one, so we did Y Combinator largely on a twist of fate. 2 times in the scene
#216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Home A Bed And Breakfast – with Brian and Joe
- ▶ 3:46 Andrew Warner Number two, everybody knows my frickin' fascination with Y Combinator and everything to do with the whole ecosystem there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Brian Chesky So, you know, we're not even, we're, we're only like halfway through the, the story, the launches, um, and it was funny because we spoke at Y Combinator and, you know, the kind of thing we tell people, um, whenever we're giving advice is…
- ▶ 42:09 Brian Chesky I was gonna, I was gonna lead into Y Combinator now. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:29 Brian Chesky Um, I remember Paul Graham, um, we're sitting in Mountain View, California, and, uh, this is the very beginning Y Combinator at this point, um, and he basically asked us, outside of events, where is the majority of your business? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:27 Andrew Warner You guys get the okay from Y Combinator. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:26 Andrew Warner Did you need any funding after Y Combinator? 3 times in the scene
#214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
- ▶ 32:36 Andrew Warner I, I actually read a post by Paul Graham, the, the guy behind Y Combinator, who said that he has a separate computer that he goes to when he needs to get work done, and I tried that, but it's impossible, because then I need to go check…