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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator Jul 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene

World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator Jul 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:28 unnamed speaker Um, that maybe Bill Gates, uh, Steve Jobs, and Jensen have 50 years of, of, you know, world modeling experience to know what people want.

Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator May 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:54 Garry Tan It's embedded in the revolution that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak gave us when they were in the garage in Mountain View, literally soldering together breadboards.

How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator May 22, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 11:00 Eric Ries Steve Jobs, like, loved that company, admired them so much. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:14 Eric Ries You think about the way that Steve Jobs would obsess about design. 3 times in the scene

Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator May 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:09 Garry Tan The Apple one created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak was a breadboard inside, like literally a wooden case hammered together with like nails and duct tape, you know?

Common Mistakes With Vibe Coded Websites · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:05 Raphael Schaad Um, Steve Jobs famously said, you know, he wanted to make things lickable with the Aqua interface back in the day.

Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire · Y Combinator Oct 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:59 Brad Flora The canonical Steve Jobs thing is like, here's a dopey idea, right? 2 times in the scene

Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator Aug 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:30 unnamed speaker Yeah, it's, it's like that Steve Jobs

Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator Jun 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:13 Satya Nadella What is the Steve Jobs thing or the Bob Dylan thing, which is you're either busy being born or busy dying.

How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator May 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game · Y Combinator Mar 28, 2025 · 1 mention

How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator Dec 18, 2024 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 22:00 David Lieb Yeah, when you're saying that, I'm thinking of Steve Jobs in building the iPhone and making decisions on what they were going to do in the iPhone and what things they were explicitly not going to do.

How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator Sep 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:34 Harj Taggar If you think of Apple, it's of course known as Steve Jobs' company, and very rightly so, but Steve Jobs literally couldn't have built the first Apple computer if he didn't have Steve Wozniak as his co-founder.

How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator Aug 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:03 Carl Pei On a product functionality level, we have this thought that, you know, um, when Steve Jobs pitched a personal computer, it was pitched as the bicycle for the mind.

Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator Jun 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 29, 2022 · 1 mention

Should You Start A Startup? | Startup School · Y Combinator Nov 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14 Harj Taggar These depictions can make it seem that if you're not a ruthless, brilliant programmer like Mark Zuckerberg in the Social Network movie, or a charismatic product genius like Steve Jobs in one of the many books or movies about him, you…

How To Change The World? Get The Small Things Right – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Feb 2, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14 Dalton Caldwell We look at Elon Musk, we look at Steve Jobs, and we have this model of people that forced the universe to their will.

Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Jan 19, 2022 · 1 mention

Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator Dec 4, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:38 Matt Cutts Yeah, you know, there's this, there's this myth that like, the lore about Steve Jobs was always like, well, if I ask people what they want, 2 times in the scene

HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator May 8, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:09 Brian Halligan Uh, and like the talent of Steve Jobs, like you can read about it, you can watch the movie, but those are, those are very rare talents that people have.

A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator Apr 3, 2019 · 1 mention

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 3 mentions

Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Oct 10, 2018 · 1 mention

David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 17:41 David Rusenko I like what that Michael touched on this earlier too, about the real Steve Jobs and fake Steve Jobs. 5 times in the scene

Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 20:26 Michael Seibel Like Steve Jobs is painted as this like magical artist, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:09 Michael Seibel Wrapping up a little bit here, um, I always tell the story about fake Steve Jobs versus real Steve Jobs. 10 times in the scene

A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Sep 1, 2018 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 37:48 Geoff Ralston Um, so maybe you're either sort of Steve Jobs and can intuit what customers need, or you just have to have the skill of actually talking to customers and understanding what they're saying, which isn't always obvious. 10 times in the scene

Anne Wojcicki : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Apr 13, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:05 Anne Wojcicki I think it's one of the things, um, hiring is always really hard, and I think especially in leadership roles, if you have the wrong person, like I just recently watched, um, one of the old documentaries about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and… 2 times in the scene

Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator Mar 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:31 Vivek Ravisankar Um, and really great developers have that, uh, or what, what, uh, I think Steve Jobs incorporated as a 10 X developer have that level of very strong business acumen.

The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator Mar 2, 2018 · 1 mention

Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator Jan 5, 2018 · 1 mention

Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator Nov 1, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:11 Casey Neistat To me, it's reminiscent of like the stories of Steve Jobs's first demo for the iPhone, where if he didn't follow this specific path through the product demo, the entire OS would collapse.

Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator Sep 27, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:30 Mr. Money Mustache but you got Steve Jobs, or Captain Kirk, or the leaders of the religions, or the gods, all this stuff is, uh, is handy for creating, uh, cult, people think of a cult as a bad thing, because they're thinking of Waco, Texas, and Kool-Aid,…

Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator May 1, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:38 Sam Altman That's the delegation that actually works, um, because, I think, because Steve Jobs was able to get away with the former, um, and make every decision himself, and people just put up with it, and every founder thinks they're the next Steve…
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