Podcast Episodes

Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware

A fireside with Sam Altman at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Sam Altman grew up obsessed with technology, broke into the Stanford mainframe as a kid, and dropped out to start his first company be…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful

A fireside with Elon Musk at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Before rockets and robots, Elon Musk was drilling holes through his office floor to borrow internet. In this candid talk, he walks thro…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Drawing on his work at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Andrej sees a shift underway. Software is changing, again. We’ve entered the era of…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Matters

Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, joins Garry to talk about building one of the fastest-growing startups of all time—and why he's betting on a future beyond …

Published on 3 months ago

Fusion Energy Is Tech's Next Big Unlock

Fusion may still sound like science fiction— but it might not be for much longer. With AI pushing demand for clean power to new highs, a breakthrough may finally be close.

For Decoded, YC General Part…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

AI Apps Are Broken — Here's How To Fix Them

In this episode of The Breakdown, Tom and Dave are joined by fellow YC General Partner Pete Koomen to lay out a new vision for how AI should actually work: not as a chatbot bolted onto legacy softwar…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job

Coding agents are no longer a distant idea—they're already starting to reshape how we work.

YC's Tom Blomfield and David Lieb discuss how AI coding tools are transforming software development, why sma…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School

AI can't yet one-shot an entire product—but with the rise of vibe coding, it's getting close. YC's Tom Blomfield has spent the last month building side projects with tools like Claude Code, Windsurf,…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup

Imagine ordering groceries and having them show up at your doorstep in just 10 minutes. That’s the promise of Zepto, the fastest-growing e-commerce company in India.

In this episode of How To Build T…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Why America Stopped Innovating - And How We Can Start Again

Not long ago, America led the world in building and innovation. But over the past 50 years, bureaucracy and red tape have made it nearly impossible to get big things done.

Still, there’s a growing mov…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago