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@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator Y Combinator

Y Combinator has been sharing valuable insights and advice for startup founders through various videos and talks. Recently, there has been a focus on AI and its applications, with experts like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Alexandr Wang discussing its potential and impact on the future. The organization has also been providing guidance on startup best practices, including fundraising, product development, and hiring.

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Social topic influence y combinator #2, ai 27.27%, future #2715, ceo #1143, at a #461, the world 5.88%, to the 5.35%, if you 5.35%, products #2027, business XXXX%

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Top assets mentioned DoorDash, Inc. (DASH) Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Thomson Reuters Corporation (TRI) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience)"
YouTube Link 2025-08-26T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 71.2K engagements

"Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2012"
YouTube Link 2013-10-25T10:40Z 2.1M followers, 641.2K engagements

"Jared Friedman - Advice for Hard-tech and Biotech Founders"
YouTube Link 2019-09-20T10:46Z 2.1M followers, 89.5K engagements

"The Truth About Building AI Startups Today"
YouTube Link 2024-02-08T21:04Z 2.1M followers, 539.3K engagements

"The secret to better product demos"
YouTube Link 2023-05-07T22:18Z 2.1M followers, 52.1K engagements

"Building A $X Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder"
YouTube Link 2025-01-08T15:01Z 2.1M followers, 92.6K engagements

"Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI"
YouTube Link 2025-07-10T14:02Z 2.1M followers, 387.1K engagements

"DoorDash at YC Summer 2013 Demo Day"
YouTube Link 2020-12-09T17:20Z 2.1M followers, 235.8K engagements

"Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything"
YouTube Link 2025-07-22T14:02Z 2.1M followers, 82.9K engagements

"How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done"
YouTube Link 2022-03-31T23:57Z 2.1M followers, 729.4K engagements

"How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to All In on AI"
YouTube Link 2025-12-03T15:01Z 2.1M followers, 33.7K engagements

"Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems"
YouTube Link 2025-08-01T22:29Z 2.1M followers, 22.5K engagements

"Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2013"
YouTube Link 2013-10-26T03:36Z 2.1M followers, 887.1K engagements

"The Hard Conversations Founders Don't Want to Have"
YouTube Link 2023-02-23T21:53Z 2.1M followers, 104.8K engagements

"How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just X Years"
YouTube Link 2024-08-13T17:00Z 2.1M followers, 126.5K engagements

"How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny"
YouTube Link 2018-09-26T14:50Z 2.1M followers, 317.7K engagements

"The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek YC Decoded"
YouTube Link 2025-02-05T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 215.9K engagements

"Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman the Holographic Principle and Unanswered Questions in Physics"
YouTube Link 2018-12-06T15:06Z 2.1M followers, 451.9K engagements

"How To Keep Your Users Startup School"
YouTube Link 2024-08-29T17:00Z 2.1M followers, 51K engagements

"How AI Is Changing Enterprise"
YouTube Link 2025-02-19T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 126.7K engagements

"Most Important Lifestyle Habits Of Successful Founders"
YouTube Link 2022-07-22T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 464.5K engagements

"Enterprise Sales Startup School"
YouTube Link 2024-07-08T18:40Z 2.1M followers, 160K engagements

"Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup"
YouTube Link 2018-08-29T16:00Z 2.1M followers, 2.1M engagements

"Kevin Hale - How to Pitch Your Startup"
YouTube Link 2019-09-13T13:01Z 2.1M followers, 409K engagements

"Michael Seibel - How to Plan an MVP"
YouTube Link 2019-08-01T13:21Z 2.1M followers, 809.2K engagements

"Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search"
YouTube Link 2025-07-11T14:37Z 2.1M followers, 127.7K engagements

"DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market"
YouTube Link 2025-03-26T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 182.6K engagements

"Do Technical Founders Need Business Co-Founders"
YouTube Link 2024-01-11T19:47Z 2.1M followers, 159.9K engagements

"Great founders actually build"
YouTube Link 2024-05-22T16:18Z 2.1M followers, 133.9K engagements

"Franois Chollet: How We Get To AGI"
YouTube Link 2025-07-03T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 136K engagements

"Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI Transforming Work With Agents & Competing With China"
YouTube Link 2025-06-18T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 325.4K engagements

"How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails Startup School"
YouTube Link 2024-09-12T17:00Z 2.1M followers, 100.8K engagements

"Elon Musk's Video Game Recommendations"
YouTube Link 2017-01-10T00:32Z 2.1M followers, 7.3M engagements

"How to Apply and Succeed at Y Combinator by Dalton Caldwell"
YouTube Link 2018-09-28T01:19Z 2.1M followers, 224.2K engagements

"How Much Equity to Give Your Cofounder - Michael Seibel"
YouTube Link 2019-06-06T16:09Z 2.1M followers, 344.4K engagements

"Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS"
YouTube Link 2024-11-22T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 948K engagements

"Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets Hyperscaling Quantum Computing Breakthroughs"
YouTube Link 2025-06-25T21:00Z 2.1M followers, 139.6K engagements

"How To Deal With Setbacks"
YouTube Link 2022-05-25T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 98.6K engagements

"How to Apply And Succeed at Y Combinator Startup School"
YouTube Link 2023-05-12T17:45Z 2.1M followers, 322.7K engagements

"How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding Startup School"
YouTube Link 2025-04-25T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 327.1K engagements

"Should You Start A Startup Startup School"
YouTube Link 2022-11-01T17:13Z 2.1M followers, 521.8K engagements

"Top Ways Startups Waste Money"
YouTube Link 2022-07-07T19:11Z 2.1M followers, 367.9K engagements

"Michael Seibel - Building Product"
YouTube Link 2018-09-05T15:59Z 2.1M followers, 1.1M engagements

"Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe Lyft and Airbnb"
YouTube Link 2024-10-16T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 59.3K engagements

"Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes"
YouTube Link 2022-05-19T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 126.2K engagements

"The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make - Michael Seibel"
YouTube Link 2019-08-16T17:04Z 2.1M followers, 330.6K engagements

"Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital"
YouTube Link 2024-02-05T16:00Z 2.1M followers, 202.3K engagements

"AI Interfaces Of The Future Design Review"
YouTube Link 2025-02-27T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 168.1K engagements

"The Sales Playbook For Founders Startup School"
YouTube Link 2025-08-15T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 90.5K engagements

"State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents"
YouTube Link 2025-05-30T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 310.5K engagements

"Good News For Startups: Enterprise Is Bad At AI"
YouTube Link 2025-10-30T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 109.6K engagements

"Understanding SAFEs and Priced Equity Rounds by Kirsty Nathoo"
YouTube Link 2018-10-17T14:22Z 2.1M followers, 354.4K engagements

"Startup Experts Reveal Their Favorite Pivot Stories"
YouTube Link 2023-07-21T17:34Z 2.1M followers, 146.9K engagements

"Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem"
YouTube Link 2023-06-30T19:06Z 2.1M followers, 81.5K engagements

"When is the Right Time to Apply to Y Combinator - Jared Friedman"
YouTube Link 2019-05-16T17:09Z 2.1M followers, 31.3K engagements

"Inside The Most Powerful Startup Community In The World"
YouTube Link 2023-04-04T22:58Z 2.1M followers, 504.9K engagements

"How To Find A Co-Founder Startup School"
YouTube Link 2024-09-27T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 103.5K engagements

"How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start"
YouTube Link 2024-10-11T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 116.3K engagements

"Billion-Dollar Unpopular Startup Ideas"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 104.2K engagements

"The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup"
YouTube Link 2025-02-12T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 69.8K engagements

"Secrets You Can Learn From Your Customers"
YouTube Link 2023-04-28T22:02Z 2.1M followers, 84.6K engagements

"Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale"
YouTube Link 2024-05-30T17:43Z 2.1M followers, 208.9K engagements

"Founder Stories: Cathy Di"
YouTube Link 2025-11-11T01:25Z 2.1M followers, 26.7K engagements

"What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs"
YouTube Link 2025-10-14T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 304.5K engagements

"Finding Opportunity in Outdated Rules"
YouTube Link 2025-12-05T17:12Z 2.1M followers, 16.7K engagements

"Transformers Explained: The Discovery That Changed AI Forever"
YouTube Link 2025-10-23T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 77.7K engagements

"Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel"
YouTube Link 2022-01-19T18:22Z 2.1M followers, 210.2K engagements

"Anthropic Co-founder: Building Claude Code Lessons From GPT-3 & LLM System Design"
YouTube Link 2025-08-19T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 125K engagements

"Kirsty Nathoo - Managing Startup Finances"
YouTube Link 2019-08-22T14:54Z 2.1M followers, 292.1K engagements

"Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)"
YouTube Link 2025-06-19T01:05Z 2.1M followers, 2.3M engagements

"Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents Pivoting In XX Hours And The Future of Coding"
YouTube Link 2025-05-02T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 251.4K engagements

"Mark Zuckerberg : How to Build the Future"
YouTube Link 2016-08-16T17:46Z 2.1M followers, 2M engagements

"Eric Migicovsky - How to Talk to Users"
YouTube Link 2019-07-25T18:32Z 2.1M followers, 459.4K engagements

"Founder Stories: Priya Khandelwal"
YouTube Link 2025-11-07T00:19Z 2.1M followers, 26.7K engagements

"50 Founders Share How They Got Their First Customers"
YouTube Link 2023-08-09T17:00Z 2.1M followers, 144.5K engagements

"Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think"
YouTube Link 2024-07-12T17:00Z 2.1M followers, 94.7K engagements

"Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto"
YouTube Link 2025-09-23T14:45Z 2.1M followers, 29.9K engagements

"Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites"
YouTube Link 2025-11-20T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 80.4K engagements

"DoorDash's Application Video for YC S13"
YouTube Link 2020-12-09T17:20Z 2.1M followers, 859.6K engagements

"Why Founders Shouldn't Think Like Investors"
YouTube Link 2024-03-21T18:36Z 2.1M followers, 114.6K engagements

"How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era"
YouTube Link 2025-07-08T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 342.9K engagements

"Gustaf Alstromer - How to Get Users and Grow"
YouTube Link 2018-09-12T14:57Z 2.1M followers, 397.7K engagements

"How To Get AI Startup Ideas"
YouTube Link 2025-02-07T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 262.9K engagements

"Things That Don't Scale The Software Edition Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel"
YouTube Link 2022-02-16T15:30Z 2.1M followers, 191.8K engagements

"How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas Startup School"
YouTube Link 2022-11-17T16:17Z 2.1M followers, 1.3M engagements

"Michael Truell: Building Cursor At XX Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students"
YouTube Link 2025-09-03T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 52.9K engagements

"Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI ChatGPT's Origins and Building AI Hardware"
YouTube Link 2025-06-21T16:01Z 2.1M followers, 475.4K engagements

"How To Design Better AI Apps"
YouTube Link 2025-05-23T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 97.7K engagements

"The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now"
YouTube Link 2025-11-28T15:01Z 2.1M followers, 46.9K engagements

"How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills"
YouTube Link 2023-11-30T18:15Z 2.1M followers, 594.4K engagements

"Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco"
YouTube Link 2023-08-01T18:05Z 2.1M followers, 85.7K engagements

"The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 86.5K engagements

"Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI"
YouTube Link 2025-07-01T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 189K engagements

"B2B Startup Metrics Startup School"
YouTube Link 2023-12-15T18:15Z 2.1M followers, 116K engagements

"How Zepto Became Indias Fastest Growing Startup"
YouTube Link 2025-04-18T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 216.2K engagements

"Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas"
YouTube Link 2024-02-29T22:58Z 2.1M followers, 184K engagements

"Advantages Of A First-Time Founder"
YouTube Link 2022-09-15T22:34Z 2.1M followers, 115K engagements

"The X Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups"
YouTube Link 2025-10-03T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 130.7K engagements

"The best way to price any product"
YouTube Link 2023-02-02T22:37Z 2.1M followers, 189K engagements

"Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $X Billion SaaS Opportunities"
YouTube Link 2024-10-04T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 442.5K engagements

"Inside The Hard Tech Startups Turning Sci-Fi Into Reality"
YouTube Link 2024-04-11T17:15Z 2.1M followers, 83.7K engagements

"When to Launch Your Startup and When to Wait"
YouTube Link 2022-03-15T15:24Z 2.1M followers, 140.5K engagements

"Consumer Startup Metrics Startup School"
YouTube Link 2024-01-06T17:13Z 2.1M followers, 79.2K engagements

"Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston"
YouTube Link 2018-10-10T15:28Z 2.1M followers, 281.5K engagements

"Andrej Karpathy on why we still need humans in the loop"
YouTube Link 2025-06-24T21:46Z 2.1M followers, 45.1K engagements

"How to Get Your First Customers Startup School"
YouTube Link 2022-12-29T17:19Z 2.1M followers, 555.2K engagements

"The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley"
YouTube Link 2023-02-05T19:14Z 2.1M followers, 92.2K engagements

"Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals"
YouTube Link 2019-08-01T13:21Z 2.1M followers, 201.4K engagements

"The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad"
YouTube Link 2025-09-12T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 105.7K engagements

"The First 10-person $100B Company"
YouTube Link 2025-08-01T13:21Z 2.1M followers, 36.8K engagements

"Vertical AI Agents"
YouTube Link 2025-02-03T14:39Z 2.1M followers, 122K engagements

"Startup Experts Reveal Their Top Productivity Advice"
YouTube Link 2023-10-06T16:44Z 2.1M followers, 156.9K engagements

"Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code Superintelligent AI Agents And Why Taste Still Matters"
YouTube Link 2025-06-11T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 239.8K engagements

"Startup Business Models and Pricing Startup School"
YouTube Link 2022-12-15T20:05Z 2.1M followers, 571.5K engagements

"The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals"
YouTube Link 2023-01-11T19:13Z 2.1M followers, 163.7K engagements

"Tips For Technical Startup Founders Startup School"
YouTube Link 2023-04-21T17:07Z 2.1M followers, 190.3K engagements

"OpenAI vs. Deepseek vs. Qwen: Comparing Open Source LLM Architectures"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 28.1K engagements

"Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job"
YouTube Link 2022-04-20T23:03Z 2.1M followers, 271.4K engagements

"Sam Altman : How to Build the Future"
YouTube Link 2016-09-27T17:45Z 2.1M followers, 528K engagements

"The Best Way To Launch Your Startup Startup School"
YouTube Link 2023-02-09T22:44Z 2.1M followers, 336.6K engagements

"Sam Altman on Choosing Projects Creating Value and Finding Purpose"
YouTube Link 2018-11-08T15:27Z 2.1M followers, 482.2K engagements

"Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era"
YouTube Link 2025-09-16T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 83.6K engagements

"Starting A Company The Key Terms You Should Know Startup School"
YouTube Link 2024-10-23T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 84.6K engagements

"Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products"
YouTube Link 2025-06-27T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 101K engagements

"3 common YC interview mistakes"
YouTube Link 2023-05-23T19:31Z 2.1M followers, 128.3K engagements

"How To Talk To Users Startup School"
YouTube Link 2022-12-01T17:18Z 2.1M followers, 276.8K engagements

"RFS: New enterprise resource planning (ERP) software"
YouTube Link 2024-03-01T18:14Z 2.1M followers, 74.7K engagements

"Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design"
YouTube Link 2025-08-08T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 35.5K engagements

"David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit"
YouTube Link 2018-09-05T15:59Z 2.1M followers, 853.4K engagements

"From dorm rooms to million-dollar companies"
YouTube Link 2025-11-03T18:04Z 2.1M followers, 29.8K engagements

"A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston"
YouTube Link 2018-09-01T03:36Z 2.1M followers, 252.2K engagements

"From Pivot Hell To $XXX Billion Unicorn"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 12.6K engagements

"Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup"
YouTube Link 2025-10-07T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 43K engagements

"Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas"
YouTube Link 2019-07-25T18:32Z 2.1M followers, 742.3K engagements

"Simple Products That Became Big Companies Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel"
YouTube Link 2022-01-26T15:07Z 2.1M followers, 186.4K engagements

"Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI"
YouTube Link 2025-05-16T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 279.5K engagements

"Tom Blomfield: How I Created Two Billion-Dollar Fintech Startups"
YouTube Link 2024-01-30T22:02Z 2.1M followers, 234.8K engagements

"Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws Compute and the Future of AI"
YouTube Link 2025-09-30T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 27.3K engagements

"Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence Multiplanetary Life How to Be Useful"
YouTube Link 2025-06-19T20:22Z 2.1M followers, 636.4K engagements

"How Scaling Laws Will Determine AI's Future YC Decoded"
YouTube Link 2025-01-23T15:00Z 2.1M followers, 40.4K engagements

"How to Find a Technical Cofounder - Michael Seibel"
YouTube Link 2019-04-12T16:59Z 2.1M followers, 99.5K engagements

"Co-Founder Mistakes That Kill Companies & How To Avoid Them"
YouTube Link 2021-11-22T18:00Z 2.1M followers, 165.7K engagements

"You should probably still learn how to code"
YouTube Link 2024-06-28T17:37Z 2.1M followers, 223.5K engagements

"Inside The Startup Launching AI Data Centers Into Space"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T17:08Z 2.1M followers, 183.2K engagements

"Intellectual Fearlessness"
YouTube Link 2025-08-20T18:21Z 2.1M followers, 20.7K engagements

"From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups"
YouTube Link 2025-10-28T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 128.3K engagements

"Small Teams Will Build the Future"
YouTube Link 2025-07-16T20:10Z 2.1M followers, 44.6K engagements

"The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street"
YouTube Link 2025-07-31T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 55.7K engagements

"Startup Advice: AI GTM Pivoting & How To Hire"
YouTube Link 2025-10-21T14:01Z 2.1M followers, 36.9K engagements

"How to Find the Right Co-founder"
YouTube Link 2021-03-25T23:56Z 2.1M followers, 141.8K engagements

"Full-stack AI Companies"
YouTube Link 2025-05-07T16:25Z 2.1M followers, 125.6K engagements

"Elon Musk : How to Build the Future"
YouTube Link 2016-09-15T18:01Z 2.1M followers, 2.2M engagements

"How to Get and Test Startup Ideas - Michael Seibel"
YouTube Link 2019-04-04T22:45Z 2.1M followers, 350.1K engagements

"How To Build The Future: Sam Altman"
YouTube Link 2024-11-08T15:01Z 2.1M followers, 699.6K engagements

"How Startup Fundraising Works Startup School"
YouTube Link 2023-03-29T17:34Z 2.1M followers, 458.5K engagements