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AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:08 John Coogan We have a Y Combinator Demi Day going on today. 2 times in the scene
Tesla’s Roadster, Car Week Takes, Unwell Beverages Shuts Down | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:44 John Coogan I want the production team to tell me if this video, which is not AI Slap, Slaps, because it is an adaptation of Obsession, uh, from Jerry Zhang over at Lema, YCF-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-
RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:48 unnamed speaker The capital that comes from a typical YC batch, and you don't have the one-on-one sort of mentorship through your batch. 12 times in the scene
Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:12 unnamed speaker David Holtz, we gotta work with this company, we gotta buy from that, that YC company.
SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:49 unnamed speaker I hope that there's a YC company that builds on top of this exclusively, and, ah, and has some sort of breakthrough user interface experience, some, some killer use case that comes from the community.
WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:39 unnamed speaker Uh, he's coming after YC.
Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:38 unnamed speaker Uh, yeah, Y Combinator, DeepMind, Microsoft, Interconnects, AI, Harvard, uh, tons of stuff, and then over in, uh, in the nucleic acid synthesis industry, you have, uh, Twist Bioscience, uh, ANSA, Emerald Cloud Lab, and Kathleen McMahon…
Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products
- ▶ 12:29 Brian Chesky I think it was a 175 companies in a YC batch, and I think 16 were consumer.
- ▶ 16:36 unnamed speaker I think it was founded by some YC founders, right? 4 times in the scene
Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:59 unnamed speaker It was a YC founder.
Open AI Acquires TBPN, Artemis II, The AI-Built $1.8B Company | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:10 John Coogan And then, uh, when I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time.
OpenAI Acquires TBPN
- ▶ 8:00 John Coogan And then, ah, when I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time,
Nvidia Restarts China Sales, Vibe Coding Backlash, Peptide Craze | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:58 unnamed speaker We, we, we talked to them at YC Demo Day, uh, last year.
Thinking Machines X Nvidia, Meta Acquires Moltbook, BYD Mulls F1 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:15 unnamed speaker Also, AI recruiting platform Juicebox, which was a part of YC summer's twenty-twenty-two batch. 2 times in the scene
How We Built a $159B Company as Brothers
- ▶ 0:11 unnamed speaker Uh, I went through YC.
Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:12 Jordi Hays Yeah, not just Anthropic, but the labs, every YC company that is building an AI native, uh, you know, any company that is,
- ▶ 11:09 John Coogan Certainly a bull market for YC companies who can vibe-code something that's
Become Unsloppable: How to Survive the Great Software Collapse
- ▶ 1:21 Jordi Hays Yeah, not just Anthropic, but the labs, uh, every YC company that is building an AI native, uh, you know, any company that is,
- ▶ 15:27 unnamed speaker It's certainly a bull market for YC companies who can vibe code something that's as good as a public company SaaS product, and then go to those customers and say, maybe not as good, but as feature complete.
Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
- ▶ 1:13 Matt Schlicht Uh, went to Ytominator, went really viral, uh, helping celebrities, uh, also go viral.
- ▶ 15:50 Matt Schlicht So, like, Y Combinator, I know you guys are all talking about, ah, Maltbook, because you keep messaging me saying you're all talking about Maltbook. 2 times in the scene
AI's Napster era, Alex Honnold, ChatGPT Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:08 unnamed speaker It feels like we're going like we could totally show up at YC demo day and everyone is Claude bot for this Claude bot for that.
The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:08 John Coogan All of that is, uh, just very, very complicated, but there's really good news because now you can book a hotel on the moon, a new startup backed by Nvidia and Y Combinator is planning to develop the first hotel on the moon by 2032.