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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:16:05 Francois Chaubard If you have folks that you think would be a good fit, please, um, uh, either DM me in the Slack or, or otherwise.
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:07 Boris Cherny It's just quad running in Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:17 Boris Cherny And the way we do this is we have a Slack channel where we just had Cloud start a bunch of different routines to maintain its own code base.
How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:26 Olivier Pomel Well, what I do is I, I just pick up those random emails, um, or, you know, Slack or whatever, and I just, I just reply with a question, you know.
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:28 Pedro Franceschi Basically what I did in the, the V one was I'm going to give it read access to everything and just create like OAuth tokens to my email, to Slack, and to everything to just literally not right.
- ▶ 12:42 Pedro Franceschi Because I think what people really want is, uh, in my opinion, is really a way of saying, okay, this is actually a virtual employee almost that has, you know, it's on Slack.
- ▶ 13:05 Garry Tan Jared and I just did this this week for the first time where we installed aqua voice and then you open telegram with the claw or actually we have it in slack now.
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:16 Pete Koomen One, every agent conversation, as you mentioned, was broadcast internally to a Slack channel and anybody could join that Slack channel and look, 2 times in the scene
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:19 Boris Cherny I was, I was just like looking at GitHub issues and kind of seeing what people were talking about and looking at our internal Slack feedback channel.
- ▶ 28:02 Boris Cherny They talk to our users on swag, at least, uh, internally pretty often. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 Boris Cherny Um, it's in the iOS and Android apps, just like in the code tab, it's in Slack, it's in GitHub, there's VS code extensions, there's JetBrains extensions.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:05 Calvin French-Owen I always think of Slack like this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 Calvin French-Owen Like I think Slack, uh, locked down their API a little bit because they didn't want people just exfiltrating everything from Slack and then building agentic experiences on top of it. 2 times in the scene
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:04 James Hawkins Our marketing channel in Slack is like that too, where people are like, your joke is just not funny.
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:49 Spencer Skates Slack's a great example.
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:42 David Paffenholz Um, think Slack groups, even through open source projects or Discord forums.
Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:51 Jordan Fisher Are you really, really willing to like stick your neck out and say, yeah, not only do I say that this is what I believe to be valuable, I'm willing to commit to an ongoing audit from some neutral arbiter, from some neutral AI powered…
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:12 Nick Joseph I think my first day I read through our entire, uh, all of Slack and the entire, like, internal database and learned a bunch from that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:57 Ankit Gupta And so you guys are like literally like you're on a shared Slack with them or something and you're sending them things back and forth or are they basically living in your office and you're living in their offices and kind of closely tied… 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:23 Aaron Levie So over the years, you know, companies like Slack, Figma, certainly others have sort of said, you know, we're going to prioritize great design, even if, I mean, Figma had to because of its demographic, but we're going to prioritize great…
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:51 Chas Englander It felt like in that Slack group, didn't it?
Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:46 Karri Saarinen Large company website, like you go to Slack, or you go some other productivity app website, it often says something like, this is the work platform, or this is the, where the work happens or something.
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:20 Tom Blomfield Especially across things like Slack and your calendar and your notion or your JIRA or your linear or whatever. 2 times in the scene
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:18 Bob McGrew It should be able to, you know, see your slacks and your, your Gmail and all the, all the different
Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:45 Katie Dill Similarly, like, we worked with Slack and Notion on, you know, how to make that product
- ▶ 31:05 Katie Dill Notion and Slack and iterating in real time and hearing from them how to make that better.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:24 Kat Mignalek Uh, and if you think back to the first time you heard about something like, say, TikTok or Slack, there's a good chance you heard about it through a friend or a coworker.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:03 Gustaf Alströmer When asking YC founders how they found their early users, some of the most common answers were LinkedIn, Reddit forums, Slack or Discord communities, and sometimes in-person events.
- ▶ 15:58 Gustaf Alströmer One common idea that a lot of YC companies are using is to create a Slack instance or a WhatsApp group for, with their customers.
The Truth About Y Combinator · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:14 Michael Seibel I got founders messaging me on Slack, Michael, what's going on?
Most Important Lifestyle Habits Of Successful Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:00 Michael Seibel You, you can wait till the weekend's over to reply to that Slack message.
Investors Said No, Now What? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:22 Michael Seibel And it's funny because oftentimes that 30 minutes is, like, over Zoom while, like, on Slack doing email, right?
How To Compete With Amazon and Google · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:21 Harj Taggar Yeah, I think a good recent example of this too is probably Microsoft Teams and Slack. 4 times in the scene
How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:58 Michael Seibel So when I think about manager mode, for me, I always like to think about this like, okay, if I'm going to be managing my time between my to-do list, which is just another way of saying shit that's actually important to get done, meetings,…
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:06 Matt Cutts Four years to get access to, to Slack, for example, um, get permission to be able to use Slack, at least within our particular group. 2 times in the scene
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:38 Kevin Hale Facebook's a good classic example, but people also really love Slack, right, because it's like, oh, I'm gonna be engaged and using it multiple times a day during the wake, work day.
Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:42 Sarah Nahm We built a Slack bot that assigned a rotational dish duty, and it would just tell you in the morning, today's your dish duty day, and then we just, like, made it completely equitable.
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:04 Kevin Hale Slack.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:58 Gustaf Alströmer I certainly wasn't the buyers of communication software at AMB. 2 times in the scene
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:44 Brian Halligan Gmail, Slack.
Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:21 Mike Knoop Send some notifications into Slack or into Jira.
- ▶ 21:52 Mike Knoop You'll see their faces and names all day in Slack.
- ▶ 26:21 Mike Knoop Like if you're, they're using a slack channel and that's like your main office, which is how we operate today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Mike Knoop I might be able to, you know, DM you in Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:33 Mike Knoop Um, we use Slack as kind of our company office, for better or for worse. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:34 Kevin Hale Just Slack and async. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:16 Mike Knoop And they'd hold it up, and they'd talk about it, and I had them take a picture and post it in the Slack channel, so there was, like, a higher fidelity version that they could see, and they're holding it up and pointing to it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:18 Mike Knoop Sharing a status update with, like, an empty Slack channel, or a Slack channel where you're not expecting a reply, like, that takes, that's a habit to build, where it's like, you have to realize how useful that is to the person on the… 2 times in the scene
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:30 Dalton Caldwell Yeah, the tooling, I mean, we got slack, but tooling wise, there's not a lot of
What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:45 Avni Patel Thompson There was nothing I could be doing on email or a slack or like nobody asked me for anything.
- ▶ 44:42 Avni Patel Thompson Like, if you look at the folks like Slack or Twitter, and, like, they are, like, um, this notion of serial entrepreneurship.
- ▶ 50:12 Avni Patel Thompson And now at nine 30, I still, I have to shut off the slack notification, but like, it's like, you know, join the thing.
After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin · Y Combinator
- ▶ 51:44 Mathilde Collin So I was, uh, doing an email product, and I was writing all these, um, blog posts about, uh, is email dead, as Slack is saying, or like all kinds of things that I think people were curious to hear about, or what will email look like 20…
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:53 Ralph Goody 15 minutes, and you can do it remotely as well over Slack or something, has always been really helpful in just kind of unblocking people.
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:48 Mathilde Collin Like medium or, and then sharing on hacker news or guest posts or on our blog and writing about email, which I think was a topic that people like treating about or like communication, collaboration, slack, like things.
- ▶ 21:38 Mathilde Collin Slack front every weekend, and anytime I'm on PTO, I don't have any notifications, so I'm never distracted by, ah, by work.
- ▶ 37:28 Mathilde Collin So, I mean, so I think it's a good question because you hear so much for, from companies like Slack, for example, email is dead. 3 times in the scene
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:05 Suhail Doshi I think I like swap notes with Stuart at Slack cause we kind of had similar landing pages. 3 times in the scene
Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:07 Andy Bromberg You know, at CoinList, when we think about evaluating, ah, these ICOs, we look at things like technology, we look at the backgrounds of the team, we try and interact with them as much as we can, and, and there's a different mode of…
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:42 Geoff Ralston Uh, okay, we're going to take questions from out in cyberspace if you send it to hashtag YCSIS or in the Slack channel, and, um, I will call on folks back here.
Dalton Caldwell - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:30 Geoff Ralston There's also now a Slack channel for those of you who are here in person. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:55 Geoff Ralston Now, um, let, let's do some Q&A, and I will also, for streamers, be taking questions from YCSIS and from the Slack channel.
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:58 Craig Cannon This has happened a bunch on, um, just private slacks around ICOs. 2 times in the scene
Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:22 Des Traynor They're like the places where like the slack stripes and intercoms, whatever can play.
Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:24 Greg Brockman And, uh, you know, this was actually a very exciting thing for everyone at OpenAI where, uh, so at the time what I was, I was kind of live, uh, uh, live slacking, uh, the updates of the game is like this person, you know, just said this…
- ▶ 43:00 Szymon Sidor We kind of chatted, you know, like, uh, you know, slacked with some people at home.
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:14 Camille Ricketts And we even have some mechanisms set up on Slack where if anyone that has over 10,000 followers tweets about a piece of our content, we get an alert. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:04 Camille Ricketts Slack is one of the biggest problems in my life. 2 times in the scene
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:07 Ryan Hoover And, uh, the fun part is yesterday we launched, we set up of course a slack bot to notify whenever someone gives us money.
- ▶ 19:22 Ryan Hoover And, and I think more people will be willing to build teams like that because it's easier to, to work remotely with Slack and like various video chat apps like Zoom, which we use and love.
The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:05 Wade Foster Um, we like folks who have, um, a lot of empathy and are like really good, just helpful people because you're working in, uh, Slack and in text all day.
- ▶ 35:18 Wade Foster In Slack. 3 times in the scene
VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:41 Diane Greene I mean, you know, it's, it's, um, you know, it's layers and layers of clicking through these screens, you know, where really, like, maybe you just talk to Slack.
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:05:08 Juan Benet When I look at things like Slack or GitHub or Google Docs that are consumer applications that people use daily to do their work and talk to their coworkers or loved ones or, you know, things like messengers and so on, um, and all of that… 3 times in the scene