What Founders Have To Unlearn To Become Great CEOs
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spenser Skates has spent more than a decade building Amplitude from a YC startup into a public compa...
AI Is Eating Logistics
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Logistics is a multi-trillion-dollar industry that quietly powers the entire global economy — and ...
Inside The MIT AI Study Everyone Misunderstood (And What It Means For Startups)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MIT's new State of AI in Business report went viral for claiming that 95% of enterprise AI proje...
Unpopular Ideas That Became Billion-Dollar Businesses
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nine out of ten people might tell you you're crazy. The tenth might see what you see.Garry, Harj, Ja...
The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days, the only moat that startups have is speed. Once you make something people want, t...
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bob McGrew helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades. Bob was a...
Anthropic Co-founder: Building Claude Code, Lessons From GPT-3 & LLM System Design
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Brown co-founded Anthropic after helping build GPT-3 at OpenAI. A self-taught engineer, he went ...
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path.New grads are facing unemployment rates twic...
Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work with Agents & Competing With China
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandr Wang started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster.It started as a simp...
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At first, prompting seemed to be a temporary workaround for getting the most out of large language m...
Startups Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's never been a better time to start an AI company. Not just because there are new ideas, but b...
Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Varun Mohan didn't set out to build one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools. He just knew ...
How To Navigate Co-Founder Disputes
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Technical skills build startups—but oftentimes, people skills can save them. So how do you navigat...
Vibe Coding Is The Future
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrej Karpathy recently coined the term “vibe coding” to describe how LLMs are getting so good ...
How AI Is Changing Enterprise
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Lightcone hosts sit down with Aaron Levie, the co-founder & CEO of Box, to hear reports from...
How To Get AI Startup Ideas
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apply to AI Startup School in SF: https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-susThere’s never been a better...
AI Revolution: Why This Is The Best Time To Start A Startup
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of Lightcone, we’re joined by YC partner and creator of Gmail, Paul Buchhe...
The Lightcone 2025 Forecast
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! In this mini-episode, the Lightcone hosts ring in 2025 with their predictions for st...
2024’s Biggest Startup Trends
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
2024 has been quite a year for AI and startups. As we head into the holidays and the new year, the ...
Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As AI models continue to rapidly improve and compete with one another, a new business model is comin...
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's an ongoing debate about whether AI scaling laws will hold or hit a wall in the near future. ...
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, OpenAI raised the largest venture round ever at $6.6 billion. The company’s CF...
Now Anyone Can Code: How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With rapid advancements in LLMs, AI can now follow prompts to generate code and build functional cus...
Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As LLMs continue to improve, it's clear that vertical AI agents are key to the next generation of bi...
The Hunt for State of the Art (with Suhail Doshi)
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suhail Doshi, a YC alumni who previously founded Mixpanel and Mighty, has created a state-of-the-art...
How YC Was Created With Jessica Livingston
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Familiar with the lore of Y Combinator? Then you'll know Jessica Livingston — one of the origi...
Are We In An AI Hype Cycle?
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is the latest excitement around AI just another round of dot-com or crypto-style hype? The Lightcone...
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit On AGI, Open Source Models, Freedom
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the first guest episode of Lightcone! The hosts sit down with Paul Buchheit, one of Google’...
10 People + AI = Billion Dollar Company?
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As AI continues to evolve and advance, a line of thinking has emerged that humans will no longer nee...
Better AI Models, Better Startups
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's been a lot of news lately about the updates to some of the largest foundational AI model...
Why This Is The Perfect Time To Start A Startup
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, YC hosted Startup School East, a one-day event in Boston for university students. As par...
Consumer is back, What’s getting funded now, Immaculate vibes
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's happening in startups right now and how can you get ahead of the curve? In this episode o...
Inside The Hard Tech Startups Turning Sci-Fi Into Reality
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
YC has become a surprising force in the hard tech world, funding startups building physical products...
How To Build Generative AI Models Like OpenAI's Sora
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you read articles about companies like OpenAI and Anthropic training foundation models, it would ...
Where Is The REAL Cerebral Valley?
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, YC Group Partners chart the evolution of San Francisco as ...
Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future?
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, YC Group Partners discuss the launch of the Apple Vision P...
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of the Lightcone Podcast, YC Group Partners dig into everything they have learn...