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The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:01 Spencer Skates Um, I, I mean, it's going to sound extraordinarily reductive, but I, I think, I think Sam Altman is the best salesperson of, of this generation by no bar none. 3 times in the scene
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:16 Mike Mignano One of the roles is just to consume and let the model train on your interests, but maybe the more interesting thing, and we've sort of seen hints of this with Sora, I think Sam published a blog post that kind of hinted at this, is kind of…
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:15 Jake Heller When you replace or substantially assist certain jobs, like people used to, Sam Altman wrote about this in a recent essay, people used to have a job called lamp lighters, where we didn't have like, you know, electricity and lights.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:57 David Lieb You, me, and this guy named Sam Altman. 4 times in the scene
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:59 Michael Truell And, uh, Sam's essays too, also, and a bunch of the folks in YC, and that was definitely a big inspiration, even from the very early stages of, of high school.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:21 Dylan Field Uh, but Sam is one of those people that, you know, he's, he's right about a lot of stuff, so I, I would encourage you if you just dismissed it outright,
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:58 David Lieb Um, I think if Sam Altman were still on the stage today, he would say, 2 times in the scene
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:04 Jared Friedman I think that's why Sam said at the beginning of the, of the event yesterday, this is the best fucking time in history to start a company.
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:23 Bob McGrew Um, I think, you know, for, for a lot of the early people who were startup people, you know, Sam, Greg, myself, um, it felt sort of painful and, and, and a little academic, but at the same time, it was sort of what we could do at the time.
- ▶ 29:07 Garry Tan I remember working with Sam Altman at YC and, you know, he was bringing in some pretty wild hard tech companies like Helion focused on fusion or Oclo.