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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator Jul 29, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 27, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator Apr 16, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 31, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:25 Max Hodak Like BCI couldn't have done this on its own, but Apple and Samsung and others have poured epic amounts of money onto making these types of electronics exist in the world so that people like us can use them.

The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator Nov 28, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Sep 12, 2025 · 1 mention

Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator Aug 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jul 25, 2025 · 1 mention

Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator Jul 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 8, 2025 · 1 mention

Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator Jun 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:53 Garry Tan I mean, in that respect, you know, when you look at, um, you know, both your company and you could argue Apple, they sort of have to be on the front lines of protecting privacy for all computer users in the world, actually.

Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator Jun 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Nov 21, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Nov 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:20 Diana Hu This is why companies like NVIDIA, Intel, Apple have a gazillion electrical engineers because this is an NP-complete problem.

How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator Nov 8, 2024 · 1 mention

How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator Sep 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Aug 13, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 12, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:21 Garry Tan Like, you know, we started Apple Computer with no idea that it would ever be a company.

Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator Aug 1, 2023 · 1 mention

Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator Jun 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

How to Apply And Succeed at Y Combinator | Startup School · Y Combinator May 12, 2023 · 1 mention

Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Feb 16, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 26, 2022 · 1 mention

Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Jan 19, 2022 · 2 mentions

Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Jan 5, 2022 · 2 mentions

Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator Jan 28, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 18, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Dec 11, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Nov 27, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Aug 15, 2019 · 1 mention

EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator Aug 7, 2019 · 2 mentions

Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jun 12, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 15, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 21, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 30, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Nov 14, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 24, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 18, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:21 Elad Gil So examples of that would be PagerDuty, which had, I think, um, Apple as an early customer.

Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator Oct 16, 2018 · 1 mention

Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator Oct 10, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Sep 19, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Sep 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Sep 1, 2018 · 2 mentions

Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator Aug 16, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 4, 2018 · 1 mention

Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator Apr 27, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 30, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 9, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 8, 2018 · 1 mention

Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 17, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jan 5, 2018 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Dec 13, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Nov 29, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Nov 1, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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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