GitHub
includes GitHub Copilot
5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 17, 2017 by Ed McManus · said 116 times in 58 episodes since 2013 · across every show →
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2026 22 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
- OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 40 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
- Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
- How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
- Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
- Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 15 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- Scott Aaronson on Computational Complexity Theory and Quantum Computers · Y Combinator
- Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
- The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO · Y Combinator
- Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
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Everything said about GitHub, oldest first
May 17, 2017 positive
McManus: GitHub account made for Silicon Valley character Winnie accidentally went viral
“I actually, I created a GitHub profile for playback purposes, right? So just, like, we wanted an authentic looking GitHub profile. The best way to do that is just to make a GitHub profile for that person. Yeah. So I made one for Winnie and we had to populate i…”
Oct 11, 2017
Aug 15, 2019 positive
Jul 25, 2024 negative
Blomfield: Founders without enterprise experience drastically underprice B2B software
“Often when you haven't worked at a big company, you don't have good calibration about what kind of prices these companies tend to pay for software. And so you might think of the last time you bought software, you know, a subscription to GitHub or ChatGPT, and …”
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Hugging Face is the GitHub of the Software 2.0 era
“And now actually what we have is kind of like an equivalent of GitHub in the realm of software two point oh, and I think the hugging face is basically equivalent of GitHub in software two point oh, and there's also model Atlas, and you can visualize all the co…”