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Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
- ▶ 12:19 Stanley Tang Cause, cause it's, it's like, cause in, in, in, in, in software world, like when we went through YC, like we're always taught to, oh, you ought to serve the customer or build something people want.
The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?
The Largest Untapped Market Inside U.S. Defense | Emil Michael
No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
- ▶ 25:54 Gabe Pereyra Uh, Jason, who was the GC of OpenAI at the time, and was the GC at Y Combinator when they did the Atrium investment.
No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
- ▶ 39:41 Sajith Wickramasekara Uh, and like, maybe that's like the YC part that's been like programmed into me that I've never
No Priors Ep. 130 | With OpenEvidence Founder Daniel Nadler
- ▶ 38:18 Daniel Nadler But that's not a, you know, that's not a, that's not a fairy tale that you can, you know, tell to Y Combinator kids, or to, or to MBAs, right? 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan
- ▶ 17:00 Sriram Krishnan And one of the ways, one of the reasons Silicon Valley is the envy of the world is because anybody, any day can go to a Y Combinator seed round or raise or just go off to the races and they could just build something amazing and it catches…
No Priors Ep. 124 | With SurgeAI Founder and CEO Edwin Chen
- ▶ 3:04 Edwin Chen Like, if you talk to a bunch of YC founders or whoever it is, like, what, what is their goal?
- ▶ 5:31 Elad Gil Maybe the way to think about it is in Sarah's context, like if you haven't, say you're a YC founder, you haven't been at Google, you haven't been at Meta, you haven't been at Twitter, you don't have this network of engineers, you're a…
No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
- ▶ 30:02 Eric Simons I, you know, I came out here with, uh, literally like zero dollars, was part of, um, this, this incubator called the Magic K-Twelt that ended up getting picked and picked up into Y Combinator itself.
No Priors Ep. 88 | With Founder & CEO of Kalshi Tarek Mansour
- ▶ 6:05 Tarek Mansour Like when we, when Juan and I brought it up to Alfred and, and, and, uh, from Sequoia and then YC, we're like, Hey, we're going to sue the government, our regulator.
- ▶ 16:13 Tarek Mansour YC kind of does the same thing if you think about it.
No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
No Priors Ep. 75 | With Co-Founder and CEO of Brex Pedro Franceschi
- ▶ 0:51 Pedro Franceschi Uh, we serve companies from all sizes, uh, from, you know, two YC, two founders out of YC, all the way to, you know, large public companies like DoorDash is of the world, Coinbase is of the world, uh, and, and everything in between.
No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan
- ▶ 0:13 Elad Gil The president and CEO of Y Combinator.
- ▶ 0:56 Garry Tan And, uh, YC itself, I like to think of as, you know, today, people sort of look at it as this sort of institution. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:51 Garry Tan Which actually, I think that's even, you know, going back to the YC, the cult of YC, I'm starting to realize that is actually one of the core things that we've always believed that extremely technical people 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:12 Garry Tan If you talk to Jake Heller at Case Text, he was one of the first people to actually get access to GPT-IV, and then when he comes and speaks at the batch, you guys should have him on the show. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:06 Elad Gil So if you look at, um, the YC batches, so you have, you know, 70% of companies now doing AI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 Sarah Guo So one thing about the scrappiness is, you know, YC is like, I think, um, uh, respected for like the scrappiness culture, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:15 Elad Gil What, what has been the most surprising version of that where you thought this company, uh, this YC company is definitely going to get stomped by a incumbent and they just ended up winning or doing really well.
- ▶ 24:01 Elad Gil How have things shifted in YC over time? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:52 Elad Gil You're widely credited externally as somebody who's really bringing a lot of, um, almost like founder energy back into YC again and helping to really drive, um, future directions. 4 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
- ▶ 2:08 Alexandr Wang And so, in 2016, uh, dropped out of MIT, did YC, and really started scale to solve the data pillar of the AI ecosystem, and be the organization that was going to solve all the hard problems associated with how do you actually, um, produce…
- ▶ 4:08 Alexandr Wang Ah, it was, I think, right when we were doing YC was when Cruise got acquired.
No Priors Ep. 51 | With Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
No Priors Ep. 39 | With OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
No Priors Ep. 35 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly
- ▶ 27:13 Jason Kelly So we were the first biotech to do YC, because Sam had just taken over from Paul, and he wanted to do nuclear, biotech, all these things, right? 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 27 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
- ▶ 2:39 Alex Graveley We had, um, you know, before we did YC, we had most, many of the large Burning Man camps using it to organize their 4 times in the scene