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Y Combinator Startup Podcast

by Y Combinator

Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry

20.03.2026 • 00:13:07

Solugen is reinventing the trillion-dollar chemical manufacturing industry by combining biology and chemistry in a new way. In this episode of Hard Te...

Building A Global AI Startup From India

16.03.2026 • 00:39:32

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 produc...

The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak

09.03.2026 • 00:53:20

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 h...

How To Avoid AI Design Slop

06.03.2026 • 00:37:26

As no-code design tools become more common, so do the pitfalls. You know what they look like - the purple gradients, annoying hover effects, sections ...

The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence

27.02.2026 • 00:19:45

Poetiq is a new startup founded by former DeepMind researchers that recently achieved a major jump on the ARC-AGI and Humanity's Last Exam benchmark b...

The AI Agent Economy Is Here

21.02.2026 • 00:23:21

With the takeoff of OpenClaw and MoltBook, a new agent-driven economy is taking shape. In this episode of the Lightcone, we took a look at the explos...

Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny

17.02.2026 • 00:50:10

A very special guest on this episode of the Lightcone! Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, sits down to share the incredible journey of developi...

The New Way To Build A Startup

14.02.2026 • 00:07:50

In the AI era, startups aren't winning by hiring faster — they're winning by automating as many internal functions as possible. In this episode of Mai...

OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents

07.02.2026 • 00:22:35

You’ve probably already heard all about OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot). The viral sensation is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own...

We're All Addicted To Claude Code

06.02.2026 • 00:45:59

Wondering why your maker-turned-manager suddenly seems distracted in meetings? Maybe they're addicted to coding agents! In this episode of Lightcone, ...