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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
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 15:05 Peter Steinberger I built this, and I was so excited, but on Twitter, people wouldn't get it.
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 8:04 David Lieb Twitter. 4 times in the scene
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:09 Dalton Caldwell They see all the photos on Twitter.
The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 8:44 Aaron Epstein There's Google, there's Facebook, there's Twitter, just to name a few.
How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 28:21 Michael Seibel Yeah, like, I mean, Twitter did, too.
- ▶ 53:49 Eric Migicovsky But interesting enough, like, do you remember Vine, like, Twitter shut down the Vine replay, or not Vine, um, Periscope.
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 41:33 Kevin Hale And then also he actually did like a tweet, um, storm about
Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 27:20 Craig Cannon Uh, alright, let's go into all the Twitter questions.
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 21:01 Craig Cannon I've looked at every single one of your tweets in your whole life.
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 35:41 Craig Cannon So let's do, uh, one more question from Twitter.
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 32:47 Kat Manalac I was going to ask if Twitter killed it. 3 times in the scene
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 30:14 Courtland Allen I saw a really good tweet the other day that was, here's the secret to success.
The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:05:25 Craig Cannon We have a couple questions from Twitter, so we can transition into those. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:24 Rana Adhikari I will answer on Twitter.
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:28 Tikhon Bernstam It was, it was, it was on Twitter.
The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 22:22 Craig Cannon So that was actually, that was a question from Twitter.