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15 episodes from Y Combinator · all channels

  1. How Warp Went From YC to a $60M Series B

    Warp (YC W23) recently announced a $60 million Series B and now serves more than 1,000 customers, processing over $600 million in payroll...

  2. Latin America's Global Bank

    Fernando Terrés is the co-founder and CEO of ARQ (S21), a fintech company building global banking for the growing number of people in...

  3. What It Actually Takes to Deploy a Voice Agent to a Fortune 500

    Brooke Hopkins is the founder and CEO of Coval (S24), a simulation and observability platform for voice agents that helps enterprises...

  4. AI Agents Are Killing the Engineering Pyramid — Here's What Replaces It

    When electric motors were invented, factories didn't become dramatically more productive overnight. The biggest gains came years later,...

  5. The ERP for the AI Revolution is here

    John Glasgow is the CEO and founder of Campfire (S23), an AI-native ERP platform built for high-growth tech companies that automates...

  6. How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI

    In this recent batch talk, YC General Partner Tom Blomfield breaks down how to build a self-improving company using AI. He'll cover how...

  7. How a Private Chef Startup Went All In on AI Agents

    Yhangry is a private chef marketplace doing $15 million in GMV that's going all in on AI agents across every function of the company —...

  8. How to Give AI Agents Enough Context to Be Useful

    Skyvern is an open source company helping healthcare businesses automate manual browser tasks, and co-founder Suchintan Singh scaled it...

  9. How to Build an Internal AI Agent That Evolves Itself

    AnswerThis builds AI agents for evidence-based scientific workflows and has scaled past $2 million in ARR with just two full-time...

  10. Circle CEO: 3 Things That Will Transform Stablecoins in 2027

    Jeremy Allaire is the Chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Circle, the issuer of USDC — a stablecoin with nearly $80 billion in circulation...

  11. Meet The DevTool Founders Building For AI Agents

    In this episode of Founder FAQ, we asked a dozen DevTool founders from companies like Greptile, Firecrawl, Recall.ai, about the state of...

  12. This $1.5 Trillion Industry Still Runs on Paper and Fax Machines

    Grocery stores do more volume than restaurants and hotels, and most of them still run on clipboards. In this episode of Founder...

  13. From Zapier for Devs to Powering 90% AI Agents

    Trigger.dev lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK — handling execution, long-running workflows, and...

  14. The Tool the Best Engineers Are Using Right Now

    Conductor is a Mac app that lets you run multiple coding agents at the same time. Create an isolated copy of your codebase in one click,...

  15. The Data Layer for the Robot Economy

    Encord is building the AI-native data infrastructure for physical AI and robotics, helping the world's top AI teams create, manage,...

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