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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
My top secrets to running an AI Agent Workforce
- ▶ 39:47 Ali K. Miller I worry, um, if you look at the YC splits right now, um, when I was working with YC when I was at AWS compared to now, the ratio of B to B versus B to C has skyrocketed. 4 times in the scene
Marketing Agents Are Too Good Now
- ▶ 4:14 Cody Schneider I've talked about this before online, but like, I, I have actually pitched like three startup founders this that are like, we got into YC.
Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?
- ▶ 33:17 unnamed speaker So G-Stack is basically the way I understand it, um, is it was built for a cloud code and it was made by Gary Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
23 AI Trends keeping me up at night
- ▶ 8:03 Greg Isenberg YC predicts that there's going to be 300 plus unicorns in vertical AI in, in, in, you know, this decade. 2 times in the scene
Firecrawl AI clearly explained (and how to make $$)
- ▶ 13:51 Greg Isenberg So you can say, find all of Y Combinator's, you know, winter-twenty-four dev tool companies and their founders and emails.
The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use
- ▶ 17:04 Matt Van Horn Look, the 3000 likes, three to 20 retweets, the YC landing page.
I Tested EVERY Hyped AI Tool - I ONLY Kept Using These
- ▶ 46:54 unnamed speaker Um, and I think a lot of people, like even the YC companies pivot so much nowadays in the,
Perplexity's new AI agents are INSANE
- ▶ 9:55 Greg Isenberg Founders of the last Y Combinator batch.
- ▶ 19:53 Greg Isenberg So it's still working on figuring out, uh, the YC sales.
- ▶ 24:23 Greg Isenberg So it says to identify the contacts of CEOs and founders, I'm compiling a list of the most recent YC cohort gathering public, public available information on their leadership and focusing on their contact details, company descriptions and… 3 times in the scene
The Golden Age of AI is happening right now (Here's Why)
- ▶ 15:30 Jonathan Courtney It just takes way longer, which is like that you tweeted today that, uh, you know, YC are looking for companies that can turn a 40 hour work week or a 40 hour task into a 40 minute task, and I think that's the thing, right?
- ▶ 21:08 Greg Isenberg So for example, like, uh, the tweet I did today around the YC startups that, uh, YC wants to invest in, in 20, 25.
I built an AI Agent in 43 min to automate my workflows (Zero Coding)
- ▶ 5:52 unnamed speaker I think this workflow, this one here, uh, is kind of interesting because this is actually how we generated all of our revenue in the early days of YC. 2 times in the scene
He Built a Startup using AI That Prints Money (Full Tutorial)
- ▶ 26:53 Greg Isenberg Y Combinator. 6 times in the scene
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 22-Year-Old who built Multiple Viral Products
- ▶ 3:51 Avi Schiffman I also think that, uh, Y Combinator is, is evil and has ruined startups. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 Avi Schiffman Personal confidence is what most founders should be working towards rather than like YC advice, because if you are confident enough in yourself, and again, you need to act like, I think the thing is that you still need to actually have… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:11 Avi Schiffman I see that YC does this pretty often is, um, I'm obviously trying to build a chat bot that you form a relationship with.
The framework for building AI startups from a product design genius
- ▶ 13:15 Mike Hudack It's a YC company that is doing, um, debt, AI debt collection, which I would have thought was like a terrible idea.
How to use AI to build your SaaS startup (Lovable, Supabase)
3 $1M+ AI startup ideas to build in 2025 (and how to grow them)
- ▶ 16:26 Greg Isenberg For example, YC founder going through, YC SaaS founder. 2 times in the scene
John Coogan (TBPN) gives you $1B BIG startup ideas
- ▶ 37:52 John Coogan And so there's been a lot of companies that have started with, uh, you know, drones, uh, famously, uh, Y Combinator just had their first defense tech company. 2 times in the scene
Bolt tutorial for beginners with the Bolt CEO Eric Simons
- ▶ 49:06 Eric Simons And, um, and, and they look, they look professional and, you know, it's kind of to this point, you know, uh, we've had, uh, YC startups already. 2 times in the scene
4 Startup Ideas Around Dating, Status, and AI
- ▶ 4:30 unnamed speaker I think that's kind of opened up a bit, so you could do, like, interesting things with, like, honestly, you could make probably, like, a dating app just for people who are YC founders. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:46 Greg Isenberg YC, you mentioned. 2 times in the scene
The rulebook MrBeast followed to build his $1B creator empire
- ▶ 8:15 Greg Isenberg Beast building the Y Combinator of creators? 2 times in the scene
Learn how to win on the internet in 28 min [tiktok shop, trends, building cult brands]
- ▶ 16:35 Greg Isenberg You know, if you were going to create the YC of today in a world where software is commoditized, it's all about distribution. 4 times in the scene
Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
- ▶ 12:48 Greg Isenberg Y Combinator?
The step by step guide to starting a business from $0
- ▶ 33:19 Adam Robinson And then I think the perfect combination is, is like rework fundamentals, but Y Combinator orientation towards growth. 3 times in the scene
4 startup ideas using viral loops and memes to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
- ▶ 50:06 Greg Isenberg I feel like someone should just create like the YC, but at the end, there's no venture investment.
The Ultimate Guide to Building Million Dollar Agencies
- ▶ 10:27 Theo Tabah Maybe that's a Y combinatorism.
Master the Art of AI-first Products with Dave Rogenmoser's Winning Formula
- ▶ 11:43 Greg Isenberg Um, like, I think that's why YC has succeeded in so many ways. 3 times in the scene
From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
- ▶ 22:35 Greg Isenberg It gets you thinking, gets you thinking about like, you know, Y Combinator, you know, I remember hearing about Y Combinator
Building Big Businesses with Creators with Emily Herrera
- ▶ 52:53 Greg Isenberg Uh, it's a Y Combinator company.
Money, Wealth, and Personal Holding Companies with Michael Karnjanaprakorn
- ▶ 32:20 Michael Karnjanaprakorn So it wasn't like, it wasn't a Y Combinator.
Bootstrapping Through A Bear Market with Noah Kagan
- ▶ 28:49 Noah Kagan I would be like, all right, I want to reach Y Combinator audience.
How to Build a Brand of the Future
- ▶ 43:50 Sahil Bloom I think his brother is Sam Altman, one of the YC guys.
Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 24:11 Andrew Wilkinson Therefore, I need to go raise from Sequoia and move to San Francisco and be NYC.
Elon's Twitter Takeover and The Future of Social Media with Sriram Krishnan
- ▶ 52:51 Sriram Krishnan If you remember Dalton Caldwell, who's in our Y Combinator, built a company called App.net, which was purely, like, API Twitter.
How to Leverage Nostalgia and Win at Marketing with Danny Trinh
- ▶ 15:12 Sahil Bloom Companies, you know, you've probably seen it recently because, um, our friend Ryan Breslow at Bolt waged the, uh, you know, the war against YC and the Stripe mob that he alleged existed. 2 times in the scene
How to Build Hype with Matteo Franceschetti | Where It Happens
- ▶ 24:15 Matteo Franceschetti Uh, we sold 8000 units in pre-orders, go to YC.
- ▶ 34:44 Matteo Franceschetti Um, another great investor for us was YC, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:18 Greg Isenberg Could you talk more about your YC experience and how important that was? 4 times in the scene
Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens
- ▶ 1:09:48 Scott Belsky It was a YC company back, you know, many years ago, not many, but like five years ago, maybe.
The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
- ▶ 0:16 Sahil Bloom His storytelling around the Reddit experience, building that, the early days of Y Combinator and the early days of, of, uh, you know, completely changing the game of the incubator ecosystem was really, really cool to hear.
- ▶ 17:01 Alexis Ohanian Like, even just being in the first batch of Y Combinator in 2005, that was a fluke. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:57 Sahil Bloom Why Combinator? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:42 Sahil Bloom Well, that's like, to go back to Y Combinator and draw a parallel to this, Y Combinator now happens on Twitter and in group texts.
- ▶ 30:52 Greg Isenberg I just remembered, I tweeted about Y Combinator about a year ago. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:07 Alexis Ohanian Blind spot that exists right now among the incumbents, whether it's YC or others, that discipline does not exist.
- ▶ 1:30:30 Greg Isenberg I mean, there was a lot, I will say, but I think I was happy I got to go through that tweet that I did a year ago about the, you know, what would YC look like if it was invented today, and despite, you know, his allegiance to YC and how… 4 times in the scene