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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:33 unnamed speaker At the same time, this is demand that we haven't seen in a very long time, maybe since the US, like, built its railroads over the entire, over the entire continent.
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:58 Alexandr Wang You know, US, the United States of America in some sense was an example. 3 times in the scene
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:27 Blake Scholl Prior to boom, the closest the America ever got to a supersonic airliner was a mock-up.
- ▶ 2:44 Blake Scholl It was the ability to get from the US to Honolulu in seven, 8:09 hours that turned, uh, Hawaii into a mainstream tourist destination. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:26 Blake Scholl But one of the fallouts of the Concorde era was that we actually banned supersonic flight in the US. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:29 Blake Scholl And so it was about 24 hours from breaking the sound barrier to be invited to the West Wing, and a 115 days from breaking the sound barrier to an executive order making supersonic flight legal again in the U.S.
- ▶ 11:48 Blake Scholl It was also the first supersonic jet made in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:44 Blake Scholl Uh, is it possible for America to actually compete with China on manufacturing at scale? 6 times in the scene
How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:35 Olivier Pomel Uh, to go after the US market as soon as you can. 6 times in the scene
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:38 Pedro Franceschi So, so, you know, one of the things that we spend a lot of time thinking is like how to make LLMs work for people that look very different from us, uh, how to make LLMs work for like the average finance person in the U S that if you're…
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:39 Paul Graham Um, and that's surprising because people in England are much more polite than people in America.
- ▶ 16:29 Paul Graham And if it sounds at all controversial to think that you could help Sweden by going to America, think about how it was with the previous centers.
- ▶ 20:42 Paul Graham Where's the Silicon Valley of America?
How Stripe Built Their New Website · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:15 Aaron Epstein Of the percentage of the global GDP, not even just US GDP, that is running on Stripe.
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:45 Quan Vuong Well, the way that I look at it is, let's take the US GDP, 24 trillion US dollars. 2 times in the scene
BillionToOne Is Solving One of Biotech’s Hardest Problems · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:01 Jared Friedman One in 11 babies born in America this year will be screened by a genetic test that didn't exist a decade ago.
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:23 Mukund Jha Both of us came to us to do our PhDs.
- ▶ 5:16 Mukund Jha Yeah, so they're all, global audience, 80%, um, 70, 80% are in US, Europe, over one 90 countries right now.
- ▶ 27:16 unnamed speaker I'm curious to hear what it's actually like sort of on the ground running this sort of like split country company where the team is mostly in India, but the product is overwhelmingly used in the US and Western Europe.
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:17 James Hawkins We also had a lot of stress over, like, we're in the U.S. still. 2 times in the scene
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:48 Aaron Epstein For US-based C-Corps LLCs and PBCs.
Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:32 Jesse Pollak And that is such a lowering of the barrier to entry for the entrepreneur in the United States or outside of the United States that I think it's gonna lead to a ton more innovation and going back to, to kind of the scaling things that we…
- ▶ 14:21 Jesse Pollak And this is a big unlock because previously prior to stable coins, if you were an entrepreneur outside of the U S or if you were just an everyday person outside of the U S you actually didn't really have a way to access dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Harj Taggar It maybe isn't clear in each of those markets, which the winning stablecoin, like in the US, it's USDC, but in those markets, it might not be clear.
- ▶ 20:21 Harj Taggar How about for like US-centric builders, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:06 Harj Taggar oh, now I can, like, send money back from India to the US, like, instantly it's way cheaper, the user experience is great.
- ▶ 34:33 Jesse Pollak Whether you're in the United States, or you're in Nigeria, or you're in Argentina, or you're in Indonesia,
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:16 unnamed speaker And, uh, planning to come to the US, uh, and start something new here.
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:36 Max Junestrand With that rationale, we wanted also to get American capital, uh, on the, in the company, because we wanted to be able to make the move from Stockholm to the US when the time was right. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Max Junestrand The reason why we stayed in Stockholm was, um, we needed a market to grow in, and if you go to the US, it's not only more competitive, but I think it kind of pushes you into becoming a more narrow company. 4 times in the scene
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:36 Arne Englander I think it was about 18 months after we started, um, and Gopaf at the time, a market leader, um, they were very, very big in the US, and they wanted a, um, you know, opportunity to come into Europe, and we were best placed for that, um, so…
- ▶ 45:09 unnamed speaker And I suspect a lot of your customers in the U.S. 2 times in the scene
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI · Y Combinator
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:45 Kirsten Green Probably everybody in America has an Amazon account and shops on Amazon.
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:44 Satya Nadella Let's take in the United States, maybe two percent today, three percent tops, let's say doubles.
- ▶ 9:46 Satya Nadella I mean, if you take any country, you know, it's GDP or take healthcare, like in the United States, what is it?
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:00 Elon Musk So, ah, we, we, um, rented generators and had generators on one side of the building, and then we have to have cooling, so we rented about a quarter of the mobile cooling capacity of the U.S. and put the, the chillers on the other side of…
- ▶ 41:09 Elon Musk Um, I'm not sure that there's going to be hundreds, but it's probably close, like maybe there'll be like 10 or something like that, um, of which maybe four will be in the US.
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:06 Aadit Palicha He's like, hey, there's a company in, in the US called Instacart that does something similar to what you guys are doing.
- ▶ 5:08 Aadit Palicha Uh, and we, it was a pickup and drop service, similar to what Instacart is in the U S that, you know, prototype probably would have taken like 72 hours to build. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:19 Aadit Palicha So I think when, you know, when you speak to most people, uh, in the US, they think of 10 minutes as like a convenience, uh, value proposition, but actually in India, it's very different, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:10 Aadit Palicha Like look at the kinds of quality of companies that have been built in the U S and in other parts of the world.
- ▶ 29:04 Aadit Palicha And so, I think in the U.S., that mindset is sort of taken for granted. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:10 Aadit Palicha Like if you've been to seven 11 in Japan, for example, or even in the US, you have all that, uh, Amazing in Japan.
How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:55 Derek Thompson And most important infrastructure bill in modern American history. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:42 Derek Thompson I like to tell this piece of history, and I, and I think it's true, that we've really had two very different regimes of building in this country, um, in the last 100 years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:47 Derek Thompson So I'm really interested in American science policy. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 Derek Thompson The NIH had to figure out, how do we disperse billions of dollars to fund scientists all over America?
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
- ▶ 0:32 Josh Reeves 40% of companies in the U.S. were making mistakes and getting penalized every year.
- ▶ 7:11 Josh Reeves 40% of companies in the U.S. were making mistakes and getting penalized every year.
- ▶ 10:45 Josh Reeves We knew that there's, you know, for backdrop, there's about six million employers in the U.S., and so, you know, if you're going to get to real, real volume in the space, you have to go into many, many industries.
- ▶ 24:07 Josh Reeves Um, there's about 550,000, uh, new employers each year in the U.S., and the historical stat is that about 52% make it to year five.
- ▶ 25:43 Harj Taggar The grants are available to any undergraduate computer science or engineering students, including freshmen and students outside the US.
Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:58 Dylan Field So even from the start, over 80% of our weekly active users were outside the United States.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:57 Aravind Srinivas Uh, that's actually what got me into the US. 2 times in the scene
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:05 Bob McGrew You know, person who was flying into the US, uh, had, you know, a record, or if there was any suspicion, you know, you look through 20 different databases.
- ▶ 27:07 Bob McGrew And I think, I mean, if you, if you go back to the last time we automated away, you know, most human jobs, you know, in the 18 eighties, most people were farmers and now, you know, three percent of Americans maybe are farmers and we all do…
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:27 Harj Taggar The full, full backstory is we funded them for a completely different, um, idea, something like, they're an Indian founding team, and the original idea was something about helping Indian high school students apply to U.S. colleges, a very,…
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today · Y Combinator
Techno Optimism, Explained · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:25 Michael Seibel So the nineties were supposed to be boom time America.
- ▶ 8:58 Michael Seibel It's only tens of thousands of people who die a year in America.
- ▶ 9:22 Michael Seibel oh yeah, based on like where you live in America, you can choose to just buy your energy from like a renewable source, like hydroelectric or solar.
The REAL potential of generative AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:26 Raza Habib But if the language model is going to be able to finish the sentence today, the president of the United States X, it has to have learned who the president of the United States is. 2 times in the scene
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:25 Kat Mignalek These days, if you are an early stage company that hasn't raised, you know, say a million or more, it's going to be incredibly hard to land press stories, at least in the US.
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:22 Jared Friedman They help U.S. companies to import stuff from Mexico.
Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:13 Harj Taggar Like, they actually go out and just buy, like, tens of thousands of homes across America.
What Basic Game Theory Teaches Us About Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:10 Michael Seibel Cause the, you're talking about legal versus illegal, but you know, back in the day in the U S I was reading this biography of Morgan Stanley and like,
Investors Said No, Now What? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:46 Harj Taggar Like, anytime someone says, well, I don't know, don't, like, 60% of US consumers not want to purchase blah blah blah, you should be able to say, well, actually, like, I've been spending the last month with, like, um, Uber drivers, and…
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:32 Dalton Caldwell Uh, US based exchanges were incredibly hard to start. 2 times in the scene
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:07 Diego Saez-Gil I didn't know anybody in the U S and I had no idea how to start a startup.
- ▶ 9:15 Diego Saez-Gil In the US there are less than 50 projects that got certification for carbon credits, and in South America there's less.
- ▶ 29:45 Diego Saez-Gil Uh, in the US and Brazil into our platform that we analyzed, validated, and, you know, listed on our platform.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:10 Eric Migicovsky Uh, we're building self-driving cars for ride-sharing and retirement communities and for schools in the U.S.
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:03 Iba Masood Um, we got in with a careers platform for grads in the US.
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:46 Laks Srini Um, we were also heavily influenced by the, the, the PG article about, like, 95% of talent is outside the US. 2 times in the scene
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:22 Cory Doctorow If you look at the AT&T antitrust case that finally broke them up in 1982, it was a thirty-year effort to break up AT&T, and it arrived at the moment in which Ronald Reagan was dismantling antitrust enforcement, which is why immediately…
Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:12 Craig Cannon And so this is funny, you mentioned it already, but like, uh, it, it's all tied back to also you being an immigrant to the U.S. and that whole experience. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:36 Craig Cannon And so as someone who then worked at a big company and then started a company, what advice would you share for other immigrants to the U.S. around starting a company? 5 times in the scene
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:14 Gustaf Alströmer How many people are searching for ASMR in, in, in the United States per month?
Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:06 Russ Roberts I think it's a phenomenal thing that in America it's relatively easy to do, and I think that's, that's really important to part of what makes America what it is.
- ▶ 11:57 Russ Roberts Because the Chinese are going to have them all, and I'm going to show up at Staples and say, ah, could I have a dozen pencils?
- ▶ 28:43 Russ Roberts The only thing that matters right now in America is inequality or how much income you have, and if it's too low, we, we worry about that.
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 45:11 Craig Cannon It's like, well, if we get everyone in America, we're going to be a total hit.
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:49 Jeremy Rossmann But if you look at the proportion of the workforce that's actually being sourced in that way, it's not addressing the fundamental equity problem, which is there is no structural pathway for low income Americans to access high earning… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:02 Jeremy Rossmann And as a college dropout, I went to a high school that was, that is in the richest zip code in the United States.
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