Y Combinator
- Website
- http://www.ycombinator.com
- Description
- We talk with people who are shaping the future. A show about technology in business, research, and art.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-19 19:06
- last episode published
- 2024-12-18 14:45
- publication frequency
- 11.14 days
- Contributors
- Y Combinator
- Author
- Craig Cannon
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 250
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-18 |
How David Lieb Turned A Failed Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory YC General Partner David Lieb’s story is all about perseverance. In 2008 he co-founded Bump, one of the hottest startups of the early iPhone era. But even with 150 million users, he couldn’t find a way to create a sustainable business. For many founder... |
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| 2024-11-26 |
How To Start A Dev Tools Company with Nicolas Dessaigne | Startup School YC's Nicolas Dessaigne was the co-founder and CEO of @algolia, a Search API used by millions of developers to build great search experiences into their apps and websites. Today it powers over 1.75 trillion searches annually for 17,000+ customers worldw... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders | The Breakdown Since Twitter rebranded to X, the platform has added new features and implemented a few major updates to both its UX and algo. So what can founders interested in product design learn from all this? In the first episode of our new series, The Breakdow... |
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| 2024-11-18 | It’s fair to say that few people in tech are positioned to have a bigger impact on the future than Sam Altman. At OpenAI, Sam and his team have overseen monumental leaps forward in machine learning, generative AI, and most recently, LLMs that can reaso... | |
| 2024-11-17 | The biggest companies in the world all had to start somewhere. In this episode of Office Hours, the Group Partners explore the humble origins of several top YC companies to try and identify common traits of the most successful founders. They’ll explore... | |
| 2024-11-16 |
Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb | Design Review Stripe, Airbnb and Lyft are a few of the most successful companies of the past decade. And there are at least two things they all have in common - great design, and Katie Dill. Katie was Head of Experience Design at Airbnb, led the design team at Lyft ... |
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| 2024-11-16 | Building a startup and trying to break into an established market is very difficult, especially if you’re trying to do it alone! That’s why it’s critical to find the right co-founder for the journey. In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner ... | |
| 2024-11-16 |
How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails with Aaron Epstein | Startup School Whether it's for sales, recruiting or making new connections, cold outreach is a necessary tool for helping build your startup. But as you probably know, most cold emails either are ignored or end up in the trash. So what can you do to make sure your e... |
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| 2024-11-16 |
How To Improve Cohort Retention with David Lieb | Startup School At YC our motto is make something people want. But how do you actually know if you’ve accomplished that in the early days? One of the best ways to measure successful growth is a concept called cohort retention, which tracks the fraction of new users th... |
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| 2024-11-16 |
Co-Founder Equity Mistakes to Avoid with Michael Seibel | Startup School In order to get your startup off the ground it's critical to keep your co-founders motivated. One of the best ways to do that is to figure out a fair co-founder equity split. In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Michael Seibel explains t... |