In this episode, the team behind Y Combinator reflects on what has — and hasn’t — changed since the early days of YC, and how AI is reshaping what it means to be a founder. They discuss how they evaluate builders now, why execution still matters more than…

YC alum Max Hodak is the co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, a company building brain-computer interfaces that can restore sight.

Science has developed a tiny retinal implant that stimulates cells in the eye to help blind patients see again.…

One of the biggest problems founders (and builders in general) have right now is not "how do I build my MVP?" but instead "what idea should I be building?" It feels like all of the good ideas are taken, and the competition for those ideas is ruthless.

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Brian Armstrong built Coinbase from when Bitcoin was $6 in 2012 into a $100B public company.

He opens up about leading Coinbase through chaos, burnouts, lawsuits and political attacks while staying focused on the ultimate mission: creating more economic…

In this episode of The Lightcone, we talk with Mukund and Madhav Jha, the founders of Emergent - an AI platform that lets anyone build and ship production-ready software. In just eight months, users have created more than 7 million apps on Emergent, with…

Ploy for YC companies.