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Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyHard Tech Startups Are Built One Milestone at a Time At Heart Aerospace, Anders Forslund built the company one material milestone at a time, using each one to earn the credibility and capital to build the next. “We really had no technology. I came to YC Demo Day with a lit

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyOpen Models Change The Economics of AI Ollama (YC W21) is used by 9 million developers and 85% of the Fortune 500, giving co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Morgan a unique view into which AI models people are actually using and how that’s changing. Right now, the bi

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyPaul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders YC Visiting Partner Vivian Shen sits down with Paul Graham at the original YC office in Mountain View to talk about startups, AI, ambition, and what makes great founders. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.co

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyThe World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew Heart Aerospace (YC W19) just flew the largest electric airplane ever flown — a 100-foot wingspan, a takeoff weight of 25,000 pounds, and $5 of electricity to get it off the ground. In this episode of Hard Tech, YC's Gus

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyMax Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else Today, more than 3% of the world’s lawyers use Legora, and the company has grown from $1 million to $100 million in ARR since launching in October 2024. At Startup School 2026, Legora co-founder and CEO Max Junestrand sh

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyGoing In Deep On Data | YC Paper Club This week's YC Paper Club is focused on data. Three domain experts give talks to break down the challenges and frontiers of training data, benchmarks, and multilingual pre-training. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.yco

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyMichael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Michael Kratsios has seen the AI boom from both sides: as COO of Scale AI and inside the White House. Today, as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he helps shape America’s national s

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleySusan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac Susan Kare joined Apple as an art history PhD who barely knew anything about computers. She went on to design many of the icons, typefaces, and symbols that helped make the original Macintosh feel understandable and huma

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyChelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics Robots can already fold laundry, make espresso, clean kitchens, and assemble things. The harder problem is getting them to do those tasks reliably, for long periods of time, without a human babysitting them. At Startup S

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyCircleback CEO Ali Haghani: Why Your Company Should Be Recording More Meetings In this episode of Full Stack, Circleback CEO Ali Haghani shows his work setup and explains why recording meetings with AI notetakers is quickly becoming a necessary practice for teams and companies. Apply to Y Combinato

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyPeter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" Last November, Peter Steinberger was annoyed that there was no good way to talk to his coding agents from his phone, so he built one himself. A few months later, OpenClaw had exploded into one of the biggest open source

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyWhy Robotics Still Isn't Solved - But Could Be Soon | YC Paper Club This week's Paper Club is all about robotics. Every year for the last decade, someone has promised that the era of robotics is just around the corner. But we're still waiting. So we gathered a bunch of the top researcher

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyMax Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enough Science is building a retinal implant that restores vision to people who have gone blind. One patient has already used it to read a 300-page novel. Building a company like that requires a lot more than getting the techno

Y Combinator (YouTube)ValleyHow To Design In The Agent Era AI isn't just changing the tools designers use. It's changing how they build, ship, and stand out. In this episode of Design Review, Stephen Haney, founder of AI-native design tool Paper, joins YC General Partner Aaron E
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