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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:41 Francois Chaubard And so, first, we'll have, um, Stuart Saul out of, uh, my lab at Stanford, one of my lab mates. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:18 Stuart (Stu) Uh, I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford.
- ▶ 39:07 unnamed speaker So one of my favorite examples was, like, this was by Natalia, who was a student at Stanford at the time, who showed me this, like, the craziest reward hack I've ever seen.
- ▶ 1:04:36 unnamed speaker Ah, so I'm gonna be presenting some work that I did at Stanford a couple years ago during my PhD. 4 times in the scene
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:02 Blake Scholl I think about, uh, I think about what Steve Jobs talked about in his Stanford Commencements address, which I assume many of you have seen, uh, but if not, you should watch it.
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:56 Jensen Huang And, and the last part is, is, uh, discovering the, the future of, of, um, uh, solutions technology for the future, and maybe, you know, when we, when we saw, when we saw the early versions of, of chain of thought come out of Stanford,…
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:16 unnamed speaker Stanford named Shaw Druckmann, who basically is of the view that the entire point of the growing neocortex for the, during the great cortical expansion, ten million years ago, was to get better and better and better and better world…
- ▶ 6:42 unnamed speaker So typically in, um, we teach a course called decision-making under uncertainty, uh, which is like the main reinforcement learning course, uh, at Stanford.
- ▶ 48:25 unnamed speaker I played hockey with at Stanford who now runs Tesla FSD.
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:17 Mark Pincus I try to coach founders, and the class I created at Stanford, I just said, you don't need to go get an MBA, you don't need to learn management.
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
BillionToOne Is Solving One of Biotech’s Hardest Problems · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:40 David Tsao Ozan was studying at Stanford.
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:54 unnamed speaker Pitfalls it could run into along the way, and then we also, um, just surveyed the world to see what was the state of the art for the best out there in, um, in electrical stimulation, and there was this technology that had been invented at…
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:01 unnamed speaker My name is Chinat from Stanford.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:08 Aravind Srinivas You can, like, for example, let's say you're hosting a Y Combinator event, and you say, I only want to accept Stanford dropouts, and it can go through the entire list of people who applied, and just filter based on who's, you know, to… 2 times in the scene
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:31 unnamed speaker Uh, I'm an undergrad researcher from Stanford, and I think your, uh, metaphor in your speech is very interesting.
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:12 Dr. Fei-Fei Li And then I started a startup within Stanford because around 2018, AI was not only taking over the industry, AI became a human, a human problem. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:59 Aadit Palicha So the freshman year that we were supposed to have at Stanford basically got postponed by a year.
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:01 Josh Reeves You know, I went to Stanford.
- ▶ 7:26 Josh Reeves I love being in tech, you know, I went to Stanford, I studied electrical engineering, I've lived and breathed software since I was young, um, but there was something that all three of us really were drawn to, which is, like, tackling a…
How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:03 David Lieb After Princeton, um, you know, I didn't really feel the urge to get a job, so I went to Stanford and joined the PhD program in artificial intelligence.
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:36 Garry Tan He likes to tell the story of how, you know, how you got into YC was actually, you were a Stanford freshman. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:43 Garry Tan Or what would you tell yourself from like now to in a time cap, in like time travel capsule that would show up on your desk at Stanford when you were 19?
Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:52 unnamed speaker The Stanford kid.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:09 Michael Seibel So like, just to give you some perspective at that time, what was your experience like at Stanford during these times?
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:54 Jared Friedman The short story of DoorDash is that the founders of DoorDash were undergrads at Stanford, and the thing they really wanted was to be able to just order food from local restaurants and have it delivered to their dorm.
The Truth About Y Combinator · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:34 Michael Seibel I'm sure Stanford's changed some ways since you went, but it's not changed that much, and I think that when we think about a university, we're preconditioned to think it's probably 99% the same year over year.
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:56 Dalton Caldwell And so at the time, one of them, one of the servers was named Stanford. 2 times in the scene
EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:41 Russ Roberts I hang out here in the, at Stanford in the summers, and I, I interact with people with startups and VCs and others, and, and they tell me that they find EconTalk helpful, and I, so I ask why.
- ▶ 46:16 Russ Roberts Um, I think I, it's a little bit of inside baseball, but I had a guest on, Paul Fladerer, who, uh, is in the business school at Stanford, and he said, uh, he wrote a little paper that actually, it's gonna come out, I don't think he wrote…
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:26 Kevin Hale So BJ Fogg, he's a researcher at Stanford, um, and he tosses his formula up all the time, and he says basically if you're trying to change someone's behavior,
Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:56 Sarah Nahm And, uh, when I came out to Stanford for school, for college, uh, I was the first person from my high school to go like west of the Mississippi river for college in like years and, uh, had no idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:41 Holly Liu Was that your first job at, of Stanford? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:39 Sarah Nahm I mean, first of all, I just have to say like huge privilege check, like having been at Stanford and having been at Google, like, I think that it's not lost on me that there's like a lot of opportunity open to you.
- ▶ 36:45 Craig Cannon Yeah, that's a, I mean, it's related, YC has the same thing, like, a lot of people from, uh, non-traditional tech backgrounds, uh, who might be into tech, uh, look for reasons to disqualify themselves, and they're like, oh, I didn't go to…
- ▶ 49:01 Sarah Nahm So it's sort of like what, you know, like it just was like confusing.
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:09 Jeremy Rossmann So when, when people, you know, we just had a prospective student weekend last weekend, um, a hundred students coming in from all over the country, parents coming in from all over the country, and the questions are, you know, it's make…
- ▶ 5:10 Jeremy Rossmann Everyone tries to get their funnel out of the MIT's and Stanford's of the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:08 Jeremy Rossmann We offer a real accredited bachelor's degree accredited by the same accreditor that accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley and so on and so forth.
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:22 Adora Cheung Sort of becoming like a Stanford
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:06 Austen Allred just so happens that our students who are great engineers are generally speaking more diverse than Stanford would be.
Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:59 Vinod Khosla When I met Andy at, he was in Margaret Jack's hall at Stanford.
Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:55 unnamed speaker And now here we are at Stanford, and you're, you know, kind of like of the industry, right?
- ▶ 1:02:52 Leonard Susskind And I did find that teaching the, um, for the public, the public, uh, Stanford's continuing studies was especially valuable this way.
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:31 Paul Buchheit Because I don't, like if you go to Stanford, like your roommate probably has a startup or something, like it's just in the water.
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:53 Eli Schwartz Say, Stanford is talking about metaphysics, and you're talking about plumbing. 3 times in the scene
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:42 Adora Cheung You were a, a student at Stanford, and I believe you started your first company then, ah, which was, correct me if I got this wrong, is you helped, ah, students get jobs at banks and other companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:10 Ooshma Garg Um, he was a Stanford student, and he would email us, like, pages of feedback, um, you know, every time he tried the food, and so, it was kind of a, ah, the canonical early adopter, that's someone who really wants to work with you, and who…
- ▶ 23:56 Adora Cheung So in the beginning, um, at Stanford, you were a bio engineering major.
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:09 Peter Reinhardt So we had beta tested in a few summer computer science classes at both Stanford and Berkeley.
Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:20 Geoff Ralston And last year we evolved it into a course we taught with Stanford called Startup School.
Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:11 João Batalha There's, there's this researcher at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:35 João Batalha Students at Stanford and Cornell, like a hundred students, if they thought that, okay, if they just made, uh, the first free throw, is the, for the second one, are they higher? 2 times in the scene
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:12 Liz Wessel So I went to Stanford for a three-day boot camp called BASES Entrepreneurial Boot Camp or something like that. 3 times in the scene
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:27:03 John Preskill Admiration for is Leonard Susskind, who's at Stanford. 4 times in the scene
Anne Wojcicki : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:03 Anne Wojcicki We should, like, instead of relying on Stanford or Harvard or Pfizer to go and solve a disease or, like, how to be healthy, we, the people, we can do it.
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:01 Vivek Ravisankar Why aren't you doing your PhD here in one of, in Carnegie Mellon or Stanford or Purdue?
- ▶ 51:30 Vivek Ravisankar and I didn't go to the IITs, which is the equivalent of Stanford, and, you know, the first five to 10 developers that we hired were people who were very smart, who were very skilled, and it's almost this quote-unquote untapped pool, and…
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:49 Pejman Nozad I don't have a computer science degree from Stanford, nor am I a graduate from Harvard Business School.
- ▶ 45:11 Pejman Nozad She has PhD from, um, Stanford in electrical engineering.
- ▶ 1:02:53 Pejman Nozad I remember in, when I started in late nineties and I didn't know how to find founders, um, I was going on Stanford computer science, um, actually school looking at every name that looked Iranian or Persian and sending an email and inviting…
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:26 Paul Buchheit When Google has a research project at Stanford called Backrub, it's Larry Page's hand in a, um, flatbed scanner. 2 times in the scene
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:11 Sam Altman Uh, I worked my, summer after my freshman year in, uh, the Stanford CS department as a researcher, and I loved that, and out of that, uh, grew a project which eventually developed into Looped, but it started as just a project that we…
- ▶ 35:54 Reid Hoffman One thing I think you said during a Stanford seminar is, ah, what a founder needs is, ah, something like idea times product times execution times team times luck.
Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:52 Geoff Ralston Stanford who invested in Google and became a billionaire doing that.
It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:10 Sam Chaudhary And so, um, a few years ago, we went down the road to, to Stanford, and there's a professor there, Carol Dweck, and she's got this, you know, right?
VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:38 Diane Greene Well, the way, it was interesting the way I got started, I was, um, I co-founded VMware with my husband as a professor at Stanford, and he was doing research, and he had, he had sent me an e-mail, I was actually the one startup I didn't…
- ▶ 6:01 Diane Greene You know, pretty deep engineers, and you know, we were kind of knew the, knew the engineers, and Andy's a bit, really, a phenomenal engineer, and, and David, his partner, David Sheridan, was a professor at Stanford that I windsurfed with.
- ▶ 12:37 Diane Greene Well then, the co-founder I found, a professor at Stanford, he was like, yeah, let's just do it, and I'm like, well, ok, if you'll do it, I guess I'll
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:46 Juan Benet Um, I studied that at, uh, at Stanford.
- ▶ 20:33 Dalton Caldwell I was, I would run it in my dorm at Stanford.
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:26 Jeff Bussgang Yeah, look, I think it's hard if it's, if it's on a platter for you at Stanford and at MIT and Harvard, and it's not on a platter for you in other environments where you can't just walk out the door and take a lift and, or a subway and…
- ▶ 24:15 Jeff Bussgang Because if I spend the two years stepping off the treadmill at a Harvard or a Stanford or an MIT, I'm gonna come back with a network
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:39 Craig Cannon Like you can go through Stanford CS and never build a web app.
From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:31 Reid Hoffman First, Sam had this brilliant idea of teaching a startup class at Stanford and getting a bunch of different, uh, founders to come and talk about kind of the key elements and, you know, he got this 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:18 Sam Altman So right now we're teaching a MOOC, which is kind of the third version of that Stanford class back at Stanford, um, where we are advising 3000 startups at once.
An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:46 Wojciech Zaremba Fei Fei Li is a professor at Stanford.
- ▶ 50:36 Wojciech Zaremba Uh, also, uh, Andrej Karpati's, uh, class at Stanford.
Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:19 Sam Altman If you work at Facebook or Google or something like that, um, it's probably almost as co-founder rich as Stanford.
- ▶ 35:32 Sam Altman That, oh, you know, like these Stanford students start this new startup, it's gonna be the next big thing.
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:56 Drew Houston She's provost at Stanford.
Elon Musk : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:22 Jessica Livingston Came out from Stanford.
Mark Zuckerberg : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:02 Mark Zuckerberg There were a number of people who joined who were, you know, people I did problem sets with at Harvard or they dropped out of Stanford or, you know, different programs who have grown with the company over this long period of time.