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Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath Jul 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:02:23 Brian Armstrong So, um, in Silicon Valley, you know, there was, I went to Y Combinator and they had a startup incubator there. 2 times in the scene

Martin Escobari: Trauma, Chaos & Three Industries Worth $100B | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath May 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:37 unnamed speaker I like all the stuff you've done at YC.

Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath Mar 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath Mar 2, 2026 · 1 mention

17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath Jan 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:27 Tarun Mehta Most good founders are never doing the, what is the current advice or what is the current YC yarn to people.

Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath Aug 29, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:41 Debargo "DD" Das I mean, you just have to, if you go on, like, say the YC, um, list, I mean, you're going to find every year has some patterns. 3 times in the scene

Sam Altman x Nikhil Kamath: How to Win When AI Changes Everything | People by WTF | Episode 13 · Nikhil Kamath Aug 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:56 Sam Altman My predecessor, Paul Graham, had this answer that has always stuck with me for people and to give to founders, and it, it became the motto for Y Combinator, which is make something people want, and that sounds like such an easy instruction.
  • ▶ 18:42 Nikhil Kamath And you probably know more about this than most because of your role at Y Combinator.

Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath Apr 26, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 5:31 Carl Pei And then, um, he then became the youngest founder to get into Y Combinator. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:29 Carl Pei So I was planning to go to YC and then, uh, I was playing a lot of games, a lot of League of Legends at that time. 3 times in the scene

Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath Sep 20, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:54 Aadit Palicha And that's when, I guess when we were 1415, we started getting exposed to, you know, Y Combinator startup school. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:31 Kaivalya Vohra The CDC was December, 21, and it was led by Y Combinator's growth fund.
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