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World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator Jul 17, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:33 unnamed speaker And I'm going to apply something called model predictive control or real-time model predictive control, which is like the way that space X lands
  • ▶ 14:24 unnamed speaker And like, in this case, I don't know what a valid state is, but like, let's just say I was doing, um, uh, like the SpaceX with, um, launching rockets and landing rockets in Florida.

From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator Dec 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:11 Garry Tan Like I'm really taken by to what degree both OpenAI and SpaceX, for instance, where, uh, you know, the Genesis came from like interest and a hunch and just

Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Garry Tan So, uh, from SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, XAI, and more, was there ever a moment in your life, uh, before all this where you felt, I have to build something great, and what flipped that switch for you?
  • ▶ 16:33 Elon Musk So that's where I decided to start SpaceX, SpaceX to, uh, advance rocket technology to the point where we could send people to Mars.
  • ▶ 17:24 Elon Musk So, um, again, with SpaceX, starting SpaceX was, uh, really from the standpoint of like, I think there's like a less than 10% chance of being successful. 3 times in the scene

How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator Apr 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:49 Aadit Palicha And I think that, like, SpaceX is a good example of a company that is just able to, like, get the maximum out of people because

Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator Nov 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:50 Tom Blomfield I mean, if you saw the recent, um, uh, SpaceX landings catching the booster in the, in the, um, chopsticks, absolutely incredible.

Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator Sep 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:31 Harj Taggar Like he started, I think it was a zip to something, then PayPal, but now, you know, now SpaceX and Tesla, but from our own orbit, like we have example, I speak a personal one, um, a friend and former roommate of mine, Eric Wu is the YC…

Elon Musk & The Midwit Meme – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Mar 2, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:57 Michael Seibel But, you know, to me, the first example that I always loved is that, you know, I read some book about the starting of SpaceX, and it started with Elon going to Russia trying to buy, like, rockets.

Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose · Y Combinator Nov 8, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:52 Sam Altman You know, maybe it means you have to go be an employee at SpaceX instead of being Elon Musk, but like, at least you're doing what you want.

The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:06 Paul Buchheit And it was, it was after he had started SpaceX, but before they had done the first rocket launch. 2 times in the scene

A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator Oct 12, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:26 Eric Migicovsky Um, slightly different path than, like, SpaceX, which is going for the reusability thing. 2 times in the scene

Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator Jan 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:56 unnamed speaker Afterwards, a couple of students came up, and they said they're, they're going to work in, um, one of them is working at SpaceX, and one of them is going to work in AI next year, both because of my post.

The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO · Y Combinator Sep 15, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:24 Rana Adhikari To have a space interferometer, it's got to be on a far, far out kind of orbit that you can get to with things like SpaceX, Falcon Heavy, and, um, so there's a project called LISA, which is aimed to launch in 16 years, 1617 years from now,…

IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Jul 1, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 50:58 Juan Benet Uh, and when you could see it with something like SpaceX and Tesla, um, SpaceX and Tesla both went through major, major funding issues, right? 3 times in the scene

Elon Musk : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Sep 15, 2016 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 5:49 Sam Altman And then when you're trying to estimate probability of success, so you say this thing will be really useful, good area under the curve, uh, I guess to use the example of SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:26 Elon Musk Um, I need to make sure that SpaceX doesn't die between now and then, and that I don't die, or if I do die, that someone takes over who will continue that.
  • ▶ 16:03 Elon Musk My time is mostly split, ah, well, it's split between SpaceX and Tesla, and of course, I, I try to spend, um, ah, part of every week at OpenAI. 5 times in the scene
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