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Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator Jul 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:34 Jensen Huang And, and, um, uh, in a lot of ways, open claw to me was very Linux moment to me.
  • ▶ 40:03 Jensen Huang If not for open, if not for Linux, if not for Kubernetes, if not for all of these, you know, platform, if not for, uh, TensorFlow or more important, uh, PyTorch, right?

The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator Jun 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:45 unnamed speaker There's still not a lot of people that use Linux, by the way.

How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:21 Garry Tan So option A is sort of like, if you're a Linux hacker, I bet you would really like this, but option B, I think it's more friendly for just normal people, so I kind of like, I, I might put that as a five.

The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator Sep 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:18 Amjad Masad Um, the way, ah, software engineering agents are trained today is they're trained on standard Linux environment. 2 times in the scene

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:30 Andrej Karpathy And it's kind of interesting to me that the ecosystem is shaping in a very similar kind of way where you have a few closed source providers like Windows or Mac OS, and then you have an open source alternative like Linux, and I think for,… 2 times in the scene

How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator Aug 13, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:59 Garry Tan They were sort of like a Linux skin back in the day, right? 2 times in the scene

Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Feb 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:22 Dalton Caldwell And like, what I like about this, is I think the reason, I think the reason he did it, man, is because he liked to run Linux on the desktop.
  • ▶ 12:44 Dalton Caldwell And so, so Friendster was like trying to like hire engineers and scale MySQL and they're running into like too many threads on Linux issues and like,

Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator Nov 27, 2019 · 2 mentions

Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator May 1, 2019 · 1 mention

A Conversation with Werner Vogels · Y Combinator Nov 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:08 Dr. Werner Vogels You need 10 more Linux servers of this particular size, and an hour or two later, you would have them.

The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 4:31 Paul Buchheit Um, but I was really into Linux, so that was kind of my obsession. 6 times in the scene

Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator Oct 10, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:07 Diana Hu We went from, we used to have a little CI, but now is, um, very much of a CI that actually builds to all the architectural flavors to Linux, Mac OS, Android, XSX, Android Arm, iOS, et cetera, and actually runs all the tests in all of them,…

Joan Lasenby on Applications of Geometric Algebra in Engineering · Y Combinator Sep 17, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:38 Joan Lasenby And if you're on Linux, this tends to be not, if you're on Windows, it's like impossible.

Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:20 Paul Buchheit Um, and the second thing, the second reason is Linux. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:22 Paul Buchheit So, crypto is another one of these things, like I gave Linux as an example, where the thing that brought me to Google was my enthusiasm for Linux, and I think if you were paying attention to what, like, nerdy 21 year olds were excited… 2 times in the scene

Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator Nov 8, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:28 Greg Brockman Um, the thing about League of Legends is it doesn't run on Linux and, uh, uh, it doesn't have a game API and little things like that actually are the biggest barrier to making AI progress in a lot of ways. 2 times in the scene

Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:59 Kor Adana Um, and I remember, like, taking classes, uh, just learning how to work with router configurations and switches, and there's this one Linux security class where we did, like, real red team, blue team simulations, where, like, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:27 Kor Adana And it was just the sequence where we flashed like a frame of a piece, like a bunch of different screens, like crash screens of like a Linux system crashing.

IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Jul 1, 2017 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:40 Dalton Caldwell And like the Linux kernel. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:15:14 Juan Benet And when you think about open source, um, we don't have today an easy way of correctly figuring out and computing what is the credit assignment on something like the Linux kernel, right? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:34:27 Juan Benet Like, yeah, like, I would hate it if whatever, uh, kind of experiment in this direction kills the fact that the Linux kernel is built by a bunch of people that really care deeply about the problems and are fixing them, um, and so, like, it…
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