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Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator May 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:35 Garry Tan Twitter ended up buying it for about twenty million dollars, so that was sort of like my first bag, really. 2 times in the scene

How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:29 Garry Tan I co-founded Posterous, a microblogging platform that sold to Twitter, and I also built the first version of Bookface, YC's internal social platform

Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator Feb 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:15 Boris Cherny It was just that, I mean, like, we were looking at Twitter and there was like that one guy that was using quad code to like monitor his tomato plants.

OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator Feb 7, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator Sep 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:08 Ankit Gupta There's all sorts of other domains where you probably could extract more pre-training data, but at least there's this narrative I see, you know, on Twitter or whatever, where it's like,

Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator Jul 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:19 David Lieb Um, okay, so you launched this first version of perplexity, which is largely to, like, do Twitter search, effectively.

Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator Mar 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:10 Dylan Field Um, and then, um, one of our early users that tried out Figma, um, I remember he tweeted at the time, like, kind of making fun of us, but in a nice way, and said, oh, we're gonna do a design party, and, like, invited everybody to a Figma…

Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator Mar 5, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 26:26 Harj Taggar I mean, I, I keep thinking about the Twitter analogy that you brought up, so I think it's a really interesting one. 5 times in the scene

How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator Feb 21, 2025 · 4 mentions

Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator Nov 21, 2024 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 3:39 David Lieb It might be really easy just to say, well, if they're watching more content on Twitter, that must be good.
  • ▶ 15:12 David Lieb I would say, Elon, like, if I drive a Tesla, I think it's the best car that I've ever sat in, but the taste and the decisions they made on that do not match what I see on Twitter and X these days. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:57 Tom Blomfield How do you think all of these changes have impacted the revenue commercials at Twitter? 4 times in the scene

Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator Aug 1, 2023 · 1 mention

The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals · Y Combinator Jan 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:37 Dalton Caldwell And I think especially in COVID land, I don't know, like one of my explanations is if you spend all day on Twitter and discord and everything's a game and everything to joke, everything's silly, you can kind of, I just have noticed some…

Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 15, 2022 · 1 mention

How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done · Y Combinator Mar 31, 2022 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 11:13 Dalton Caldwell Is how to have a healthy relationship with social media so that you aren't spending 24 seven paying attention to who the main character on Twitter is that said something dumb and everyone's like making fun of them. 8 times in the scene

Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:57 Dalton Caldwell And so like, whatever the hot new trend is, whatever people are tweeting about, whatever, like,

YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator Jan 24, 2020 · 2 mentions

Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator Jul 25, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:36 Kevin Hale If you go to Investor, and you've done a bunch of Facebook, or Twitter, or Google Ads, and you show your CAC and LTV, that you were able to prove that you have a sustainable sort of acquisition model.

Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator Jul 3, 2019 · 1 mention

Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator Jun 12, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:25 Craig Cannon Cause there were a bunch of questions that we saw on Twitter about, about that exactly.

Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator Jun 5, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:59 Simone Giertz Where I'm like, hey, I think I'm gonna, like, take some time off, and like, if you see me online, like, tell me to get the fuck out, and they're like, Simone, it's what you said last month too, and then we saw you on Twitter, like, just…

Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator May 15, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:35 Jonathan Gill So that's newsletters, that's tweeting, that is that whole cycle of how you interrelate, and then how you share your actual content. 3 times in the scene

Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator May 1, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:24 Jarvis Johnson Oh, I didn't, I know he followed me on Twitter.
  • ▶ 32:43 Jarvis Johnson I'll, like, I'll, like, do a poll on, like, the YouTube community tab, or I'll ask, I'll tweet something, or I'll, I'll post something on the Instagram question and answer thing, which it, it should, I wish it was easier to export the…

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

  • ▶ 1:40 Craig Cannon A few of the questions that came on from Twitter were basically like, isn't this just an opportunity for rich people?

Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:51 Craig Cannon Nina Mehta, uh, who I know, hey Nina, uh, asked a question on Twitter, uh, related to this, and that is, what's the best way to share work and knowledge across designers working on different parts of the product without distracting from…

Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 34:35 Ryan Hoover It was when Twitter was taking off and like, how do you build something that's even more, um, accessible and builds more, um, retention loops through, through following and that type of thing.
  • ▶ 41:52 Ryan Hoover He, he now has since built and launched tons and tons of different products, and, and I was happy to see, like, he won maker of the year, and he even recorded the video, put it on Twitter, and was like, thanks, everybody. 3 times in the scene

What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator Jan 30, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator Jan 23, 2019 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 1:27 Samantha Bradshaw So they might plug into Twitter or into Facebook, and then they might, um, like, share, retweet a whole bunch of different stories very quickly to give something a sense of popularity, like, ooh, lots of people are really engaging with…
  • ▶ 7:25 Samantha Bradshaw So in the US, we tend to see a lot of these campaigns on Twitter and Facebook, because that's the platforms that the majority of people use. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:37 Samantha Bradshaw So, um, I think when we're talking about the platforms and how bots integrate, um, there's quite a big difference, um, between like even Facebook and Twitter. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:29 Samantha Bradshaw Um, but that also means that because it's so hard to create fake accounts on Facebook, the accounts that are fake might actually be a little bit more powerful because people don't expect there to be as many fake people on Facebook as they…

Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Jan 9, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:43 Vinod Khosla So one of my favorite tweets I like tweeting out is, a company becomes the people it hires, not the plan it makes.

Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics · Y Combinator Dec 6, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:55 unnamed speaker So someone from, from Twitter asked a question related to this, um, their name's Claudio, and they think, uh, they asked, do you think the graviton can be experimentally found?

Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator Nov 20, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:42 Andrew Kortina Um, and then if you want to find me online, Cortina with a K on Twitter or cortina.myc is where I post all my writing.

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

  • ▶ 0:57 Geoff Ralston He's worked at, at, ah, Google and Twitter, and he is increasingly known as an author, claims it's not his career, but he is an author of High Growth Handbook, which is a very cool book. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:04 Elad Gil When Twitter was constantly going down in the farewell days, and yet nobody moved off of Twitter, that was a sign of just raw market, uh, adoption.

Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:07 Patrick Collison Um, uh, and we'd never heard of him, and we hadn't heard of most people in Silicon Valley, um, but he'd Facebook messaged us, like, very early on asking to invest in Stripe, um, and I think John didn't know who's this random guy, um, and…

David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:43 David Rusenko That if you charged money, then you would have revenues, and once you had revenues, they, they wouldn't be that big, and then you'd just be valued on a multiple of your revenues, so way better to sell the dream and not show any revenues…

Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator Aug 16, 2018 · 1 mention

Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator Jul 27, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:01 unnamed speaker Yeah, there was a related question that came in from Twitter.
  • ▶ 18:28 Elad Gil Like when I worked at Twitter, um, I, I used to do a lot of yoga, and so I, I literally sit in Lotus on the floor in the middle of executive team meetings, and I was, I was the only person on the floor in board meetings, and then people…

Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator May 31, 2018 · 1 mention

John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator May 16, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:34 unnamed speaker Well, this, it's kind of one of the underlying questions among many of the questions from Twitter.

Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator May 4, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:22 unnamed speaker Um, so we had a, a great question from Twitter that I, I should ask more often.

Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator May 2, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:31 Avichal Garg And we just couldn't have predicted social media that actually like Facebook and Twitter would be the actual media winners or YouTube would be the actual media winner.

Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator Apr 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:53 Patrick Moberg And so like people with tons of Twitter followers, like, um, talked about it day one.

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

  • ▶ 21:03 Vivek Ravisankar It was great to meet all of the, uh, all of the people that you admire far off from reading their blog posts or Twitter or watching their videos.

Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator Mar 8, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 20:06 Elad Gil Ah, there's an example of a company that I actually didn't invest in, because I worked with the founders at Twitter, and the person was always in the hallway, they were kind of schmoozing, they were never really getting anything done. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:19 Elad Gil Um, when my first company Mixer Labs exited to Twitter, so Twitter bought it back in 2009, we actually had an investor who tried to block the exit as a way to negotiate more of the outcome for themselves.

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

Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:48 Sam Altman You know, Twitter is the example everyone uses, and they say, well, if the company had scaled better, it would have been a two hundred billion dollar company, not a twenty billion dollar company, or what, a 10, or whatever it's worth now. 2 times in the scene

Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator Nov 29, 2017 · 3 mentions

Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator Nov 1, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:26 Casey Neistat I saw the tweet was floating around, but I think that, that pretty much sums it up.
  • ▶ 9:50 Craig Cannon And, um, one of the common questions throughout all of the, uh, the Twitter responses to us was about, like, creative process and creative energy, and do you guys have any, like, rituals or practices to just consistently put out creative…

Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator Oct 13, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:04 Craig Cannon And we have a ton of questions about content, content marketing, editorial from Twitter.
  • ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene

Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:36 Kor Adana I'm watching Twitter, I'm watching our sub, and I'm like, alright, what are they gonna catch?

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

  • ▶ 37:22 Craig Cannon So, um, Gabe.ai, it's just a Twitter handle, uh, asked you what you thought about angel investing.

Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator Sep 25, 2017 · 1 mention

The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO · Y Combinator Sep 15, 2017 · 3 mentions

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 1 mention

The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator Aug 18, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Craig Cannon I haven't started with questions from Twitter before, but I feel like they kind of covered some of the initial ones I wanted to go off with, so maybe we should just go with those.
  • ▶ 12:53 Craig Cannon Um, he, uh, and like many of these questions were common across Twitter.

Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator Aug 2, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:09 Morgan DeBaun So it was very difficult to find information, so you had to go to Twitter, and Periscope, and Vine, and there was a lot of things happening where there was no, um, central, there was no central way to find out what was happening in a city,…
  • ▶ 11:17 Morgan DeBaun Is it information in the morning that they would never get if they were just scrolling through their Twitter feeds, unless they followed us, of course.

Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator Jul 21, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:52 Doug Eck Another researcher in, in London, um, someone posted on his Facebook something like, he posted to us a tweet that was like, what you're doing is bad for humanity.

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

  • ▶ 0:37 Craig Cannon And part three is Juan answering questions from Twitter, and that starts around one hour and 40 minutes in.

Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator Jun 28, 2017 · 1 mention

At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator Jun 16, 2017 · 1 mention

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