Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Y Combinator 360 - Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics

We help founders make something people want. The Y Combinator Podcast is where builders talk about building. From the earliest days of an idea to scaling a company that changes the world, YC partners and founders share real stories, lessons, and tactics from the frontlines.

00:00

Episoade

26 sep. 2026

18 sep. 2026

13 sep. 2026

12 sep. 2026

05 sep. 2026

04 sep. 2026

29 aug. 2026

28 aug. 2026

13 aug. 2026

11 aug. 2026

10 aug. 2026

07 aug. 2026

06 aug. 2026

05 aug. 2026

04 aug. 2026

03 aug. 2026

01 aug. 2026

31 iul. 2026

29 iul. 2026

28 iul. 2026

27 iul. 2026

17 iul. 2026

09 iul. 2026

19 iun. 2026

17 iun. 2026

10 iun. 2026

03 iun. 2026

27 mai 2026

25 mai 2026

13 mai 2026

08 mai 2026

01 mai 2026

29 apr. 2026

25 apr. 2026

24 apr. 2026

22 apr. 2026

16 apr. 2026

06 apr. 2026

31 mar. 2026

27 mar. 2026

20 mar. 2026

16 mar. 2026

09 mar. 2026

06 mar. 2026

27 feb. 2026

21 feb. 2026

17 feb. 2026

14 feb. 2026

07 feb. 2026

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Episoade

Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics

The State of Startups in 2026

8 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales

Open Models Change The Economics of AI

Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders

The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew

Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else

Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac

Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics

Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"

Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed

How To Design In The Agent Era

Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence

Building the First Data Centers in Space

Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"

Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"

Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI

Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”

Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban

Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"

Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code

Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA

World Models, Explained

How To Better Understand Your Users

Why Domain Experts Are Winning In The Age Of AI

How To Pick A Startup Idea

"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"

How to Build an AI-Native Services Company

How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company

How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot

Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?

Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers

Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis

The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers

The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company

Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website

The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here

This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads

This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s

How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI

Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry

Building A Global AI Startup From India

The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak

How To Avoid AI Design Slop

The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence

The AI Agent Economy Is Here

Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny

The New Way To Build A Startup

OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents