Y Combinator
also referred to as: yc
5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 26, 2025 by Carl Pei · said 25 times in 9 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Carl Pei (9), Debargo "DD" Das (3), Aadit Palicha (3), Brian Armstrong (2), Akshata Murty (2), Tarun Mehta (1), Sam Altman (1), Nikhil Kamath (1)
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2026 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- 17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
- Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
Everything said about Y Combinator, oldest first
Apr 26, 2025 positive
Aug 14, 2025 positive
Jan 28, 2026 negative
Tarun Mehta: Good founders ignore Y Combinator advice and follow internal conviction
“Most good founders will be largely driven by their own thoughts. Most good founders are never doing the, what is the current advice or what is the current YC yarn to people. That's for mass consumption. That's content strategy. That's not a good advice on aver…”
Jul 16, 2026 neutral
Kamath: Foundry gives 20-25 founders $500,000 each every six months
“I tried to copy Y Combinator and start our own version in India. It's called Foundry. We give about 20, 25 kids half a million dollars each every, ah, every like six months, and they live in a house and try to build consumer companies together.”