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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:42 unnamed speaker IBM computers that filled up entire rooms, um, to, uh, PCs, uh, from Apple and HP, um, in the seventies and eighties, uh, we will see something quite similar happening for the hardware of today, where we're seeing this shift, um, away… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:59 unnamed speaker Over the past two to three years, and so this is from Apple, from Nvidia, from AMD, from Zambanova, to basically understand what was the kind of upper bounds for intelligence per watt and intelligence per joule, um, and we wanted to do… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:46 unnamed speaker and so the Apple M four max compared to the Nvidia B 200 is still lagging behind, particularly when it comes to intelligence, intelligence per watt, and intelligence per joule.
- ▶ 29:12 unnamed speaker Um, just want to thank, um, our collaborators on this project, um, from NVIDIA, from Google, from Apple, AMD, Open Router, SambaNova.
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:15 Garry Tan Uh, 1984 Macintosh commercial by Apple, where it's like, is 20 34 going to be like 1984? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:10 Garry Tan You couldn't go to an Apple store and just buy
- ▶ 43:03 Garry Tan And they, like, sold 500 of these Apple Ones, and I think we're at the Apple One moment right now. 2 times in the scene
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:00 Garry Tan They are some of the most cracked people out of Apple I've ever met.
- ▶ 34:37 Garry Tan You know, it took the Altair, and then Apple One, and Apple Two, and then IBM PCXT to, like, create personal computing.
- ▶ 34:37 Garry Tan You know, it took the Altair, and then Apple One, and Apple Two, and then IBM PCXT to, like, create personal computing.
This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:56 Jared Friedman You worked on related systems at Apple, like pre-LLMs, and now you're building this, like, deeply agentic system.
- ▶ 20:18 Karine Malata So Michael and I both met, we were co-workers at Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 Karine Malata If this was the end, he would tell me and repeat to me the story of Steve Wozniak, who like, went through the plane crash, and then left Apple, and then, um, went to go work at, or went back to Berkeley.
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:27 Mike Mignano But in your pocket, and easy enough to just tap a button to end up on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, start monetizing, you know, right away.
- ▶ 3:50 Mike Mignano Increasingly, like, over, over many iterations, people were good to create content on Anchor, but when it came to listening, it was like, why would I listen to this, like, not great quality audio in this other random app when I have all…
- ▶ 14:31 Mike Mignano Help us get our content on Spotify and Apple podcasts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 Garry Tan I mean, there's a company called Nori in the current batch that, it's literally Apple Health.
- ▶ 34:17 Garry Tan I mean, there's just a lot of data, and it's in your phone, and it's, I mean, frankly, in your medical records, it's just, it's in Apple Health.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:52 Amjad Masad I mean, people like made fun of Apple at the time.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:43 unnamed speaker We've had, um, Apple's new liquid glass UI, which
Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:40 Karri Saarinen It's like, I don't know if that statement is exactly true.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:17 Aravind Srinivas That you can actually build and implement without being restricted by whatever OS rules that Apple or Google sets in terms of not being able to call third-party apps.
- ▶ 39:59 Aravind Srinivas Like you're trusting some data provider who's tracking the live game, the TV that's showing you the number, or Apple or Google's, like, AccuWeather, all these things.
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:18 Michael Truell It was very focused on, um, kind of like what we understand Apple to be, like very focused on dogfooding and usable demos, like things we could just immediately start using in the editor internally.
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:59 David Lieb A decade, um, and Apple just copied it, um, so 14 years later, now you can hold your two iPhones together, and people literally call it bumping.
- ▶ 22:08 David Lieb Some of those decisions in hindsight, I think they changed, and they were probably the wrong decisions, but he was the owner of that, and so there was really no debate, I think, inside of Apple about what things they would do or what…
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling · Y Combinator
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:34 Harj Taggar If you think of Apple, it's of course known as Steve Jobs' company, and very rightly so, but Steve Jobs literally couldn't have built the first Apple computer if he didn't have Steve Wozniak as his co-founder.
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:19 Carl Pei And, you know, those early Apple products were super inspiring for me, and unfortunately, the iPod that I got broke, uh, just a week after the warranty ended, and I, I was very young at that time, so I couldn't really afford another iPod,…
- ▶ 8:17 Carl Pei We're just going to do our Apple thing and whatever, and just make a little bit of money. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:36 Garry Tan What's your favorite Apple product? 3 times in the scene
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:08 Tom Blomfield And they compare their launch to like an Apple launch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:17 Diana Hu If you think of the Apple one, that's like a full, full production show with multi-year in the process that you get this one shot and all the reporters are there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 Diana Hu Of course, this is how my product needs to be done, because when I was an engineer at Apple, I had to work for, let's say, the Vision Pro project.
- ▶ 6:20 Garry Tan Companies like Apple and Google have infinite budgets.
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today · Y Combinator
Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:16 Dalton Caldwell Google and Facebook and Apple, the Apple HQ is in Cupertino.
Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:14 Dalton Caldwell Does not make you Apple.
- ▶ 10:08 Dalton Caldwell That does not make you Apple.
How to Apply And Succeed at Y Combinator | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:00 Dalton Caldwell They say programmers at Apple use it.
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:37 Dalton Caldwell You know what I think about sometimes with Apple is pictured like Wozniak hand soldering the original Apple computer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:37 Dalton Caldwell You know what I think about sometimes with Apple is pictured like Wozniak hand soldering the original Apple computer.
Simple Products That Became Big Companies – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:35 Michael Seibel And then you have, then you're Apple.
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:52 Dalton Caldwell It was like the Apple. 2 times in the scene
Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:13 Dalton Caldwell Um, what was the genesis of the company's Microsoft and Apple? 2 times in the scene
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:47 Diego Saez-Gil You know, big companies like Google and, you know, Microsoft and Apple all have, uh, an area of focus on climate change.
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 48:56 Iba Masood So now our founding team consists of early software engineers from Nest, um, Google, Apple, um, Atlassian, and we've really brought people together that have this common mission, common vision where everyone says, okay, we know, um,…
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:48 Laks Srini Why can't we do zero down mortgages to people in Facebook, Google, Apple, Airbnb?
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:01 Cory Doctorow Uh, Apple then internally produced another set of adversarial interoperable tools that were really important in the, in the mid 2000 when Microsoft's dominance of the office market of the office suite market was really threatening, uh,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:40 Cory Doctorow And, you know, Facebook is positioning itself to become a state monopoly like the Bell system was, as is Google, as is Apple, right?
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:57 Gustaf Alströmer Like the iPhone, Apple, all of them have bad net promoter scores.
EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:30 Craig Cannon You saw what happened with Apple. 2 times in the scene
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:45 Craig Cannon Like Google and Apple do away with college requirement or something to that effect. 2 times in the scene
Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:14 Tracy Young I'm sure people at Apple, his teammates actually appreciated that he took the time out to thank them, because they probably did work really hard, and so I don't, I don't think we get to see that side of this conversation either.
Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:59 Jonathan Gill And while it appears centralized through the view of a listener, how do you maintain the control of your means of monetization, that connection while, uh, the phone or device, people think about it as it's coming from Apple, it's coming…
- ▶ 24:38 Craig Cannon Like what it's weird to think about, but like Apple released their product without any kind of search. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:13 Craig Cannon That's my Apple's real business model is me breaking my phone.
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:53 Craig Cannon And it's also the selling point of a lot of great companies, you know, Apple being foremost.
What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:16 Avni Patel Thompson And I mean, I think it's also, it's also narrative on, you know, how we think about, I mean, because, but a lot of other folks did try their first thing, the Airbnb and Amazon and Apple, right?
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:55 Brian Donohue And then the third one is there's actually tons of reading applications now, and the iPhone is a main reading device for a lot of people, whether you use Kindle or Apple News or
- ▶ 13:31 Brian Donohue And so, what I did is, um, I had been in touch with a representative of Apple,
- ▶ 59:20 Brian Donohue And, um, today Apple actually goes out and recommends to app developers that they have subscription in their apps and they don't do app downloads.
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:32 Paul Buchheit In the early days, Apple were kind of sitting on top of this, like, the rise of microcomputers, right?
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:10 Shola Akinlade Maybe something like Apple.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:48 Diana Hu And the thing that really took off, and this is actually, I guess, a good story too, is the first day of YC, Apple announced ARKit, which is basically what we had built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:30 Ralph Goody It's controlled by Apple.
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:27 Patrick Collison Um, and that's not the, sort of, standard, obviously, uh, kind of, Silicon Valley pattern where, sort of, Apple and Amazon and Facebook and Google and all these companies, uh, tend to be, sort of, highly concentrated in these, um, uh, sort…
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:34 Kat Manalac Um, or if you're pitching a reporter who covers Apple, don't hit them up during WWDC.
David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:24 David Rusenko He didn't say that he never iterates because those are all things that Apple does, um, a whole lot.
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:29 Paul Graham You worked at Apple at one point after you got bought. 2 times in the scene
Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:47 Jessica Brillhart So, and then it would recite it on, uh, using this voice, Myra, which is an Irish, uh, speaking, Irish, uh, dialect speaking, uh, Apple voice, Apple, you know, Mac OS voice, um, uh, which made it really just unbearable because it was like,…
- ▶ 16:23 Jessica Brillhart Uh, Florence, uh, which I think just won the Apple Design Award for, like, best designed game.
- ▶ 30:03 Craig Cannon Uh, related, Michael Hodap asks, does VR, or whatever you want to call it, still have long-term mass adoption potential, or will the market shift to AR, uh, you know, so Magic Leap, Apple Glasses, stuff like that?
- ▶ 41:39 Jessica Brillhart Uh, I had a short, uh, I worked at Apple for a little bit.
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:01:19 Sean Mitchell and I'll just open up notes on my, on my iPhone
Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:03 Patrick Moberg Apple's, like, doing a great job now sort of, like, showcasing those indie developers and, like, both their games but also their individuals behind them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:17 Holly Liu Yeah, Apple, Apple's done a great job supporting indie developers. 2 times in the scene
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:03 unnamed speaker Um, but yeah, you know, like companies like Apple are infamous for not letting people do side projects. 2 times in the scene
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:47 Andy Bromberg The, the craze and apples and Genentex, it got really interesting again, and we saw literally hundreds of firms be started through the decade of the eighties.
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:30 Sam Altman So, when the iPhone came out, um, most of the mobile industry would make fun of it because Apple only sold a million or two million, whatever it was in the first year. 2 times in the scene
Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:39 Alex Blumberg So like Spotify tune in and of course Apple, Apple was the dominant just sort of like by, by accident, they created the category, you know, thank you very much Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:13 Alex Blumberg Like just because, you know, the Spotify's and the tune-ins and the Apple's are definitely like for a while, like they weren't really paying attention.
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:27 Tom Sparks Um, Apple's been pretty good about it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:21 Tom Sparks They can't, they can't make Apple decrypt what, what you've got. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:26 Leah Culver Like, I actually use it to find out what other apps are doing for certain, like, Apple-specific settings, because they have, like, these weird configurations that you can do for, like, um, interoperability with other apps, and it never…
- ▶ 12:53 Tom Sparks I mean, there, there's a few things that Apple did to, to try to make sure that there's some liveness and some other stuff, but, you know, it's hardware at the end of the day, so it's not, you know, it's a little fallible, but it's, it's…
- ▶ 36:54 Craig Cannon Why do you think the iOS podcast app is so popular?
- ▶ 36:58 Craig Cannon I know, but Apple Maps is garbage, and it, like, Apple Maps got usurped by Google Maps, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:17 Leah Culver Um, not based on like, so Apple uses editors. 2 times in the scene
Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:29 Des Traynor And if I said here, name somebody who's good at marketing, and you're not allowed to say Apple, uh, like, everyone's opinion is kind of different, right?
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:48 Robin Sloan The newest version of iOS, um, something has changed, and now that, like, the binary that I uploaded to Apple all those years ago will not run anymore. 2 times in the scene
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:20 Matt Hackett You need to work on a different way, but like, I don't think that's quite as interesting, probably, to the, the early stage founder as that, like, I'm the technical half of the team, and holy shit, we have to, we have to, you know, have… 2 times in the scene
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