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EPISODES 38LATEST SEP 13, 2026HOST CHRISTINA GILBERT
Topics covered
SEP 13, 2026
8 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales
CHRISTINA GILBERT
SEP 12, 2026
Open Models Change The Economics of AI
JEFFREY MORGAN, SPEAKER 02, SPEAKER 03, SPEAKER 04
SEP 5, 2026
Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders
PAUL GRAHAM, VIVIAN SHEN
AUG 29, 2026
Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else
GUSTAV ÅMSTRÖMER, MAX JUNESTRAND
AUG 28, 2026
Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
SUSAN KARE
AUG 13, 2026
Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
CHELSEA FINN
AUG 11, 2026
Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
PETER STEINBERGER
AUG 10, 2026
Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed
MAX HODAK
AUG 7, 2026
How To Design In The Agent Era
AARON EPSTEIN, SPEAKER 03, SPEAKER 04, STEPHEN HANEY, YC PROMO
AUG 6, 2026
Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence
GARRY TAN
AUG 5, 2026
Building the First Data Centers in Space
PHILIP JOHNSTON
AUG 4, 2026
Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"
DMITRI DOLGOV
AUG 3, 2026
Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"
HARJ TAGGAR, PATRICK COLLISON
AUG 1, 2026
Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
DIANA HU, JEFF DEAN
JUL 31, 2026
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”
ALEXANDR WANG, GARRY TAN
JUL 29, 2026
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban
BLAKE SCHOLL, INTERVIEWER
JUL 28, 2026
Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code
BORIS CHERNYI, JELENA
JUL 28, 2026
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"
GARRY TAN, SAM ALTMAN
JUL 27, 2026
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA
GARRY TAN, JENSEN HUANG
JUL 17, 2026
World Models, Explained
ANKIT GUPTA, FRANCOIS CHAUBARD
JUL 9, 2026
How To Better Understand Your Users
DAVID LIEB
JUN 19, 2026
Why Domain Experts Are Winning In The Age Of AI
BRYANT CHO, HOST 00, HOST 01, HOST 02, HOST 03, HOST 04, HOST 05
JUN 17, 2026
How To Pick A Startup Idea
JOHN
JUN 10, 2026
"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"
PEDRO FRANCESCHI, SPEAKER_00, SPEAKER_01, SPEAKER_04, SPEAKER FOUR, SPEAKER ONE, SPEAKER TWO
JUN 3, 2026
How to Build an AI-Native Services Company
CHARLIE WARREN
MAY 27, 2026
How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company
GARRY TAN, PETE KOOMEN
MAY 25, 2026
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
ERIC RIES, GARRY, SPEAKER 00, SPEAKER 03
MAY 13, 2026
Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?
PAUL GRAHAM
MAY 1, 2026
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
ANKIT GUPTA, FRANCOIS CHAUBARD
APR 25, 2026
The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers
AMJAD MASAD, ANDREW MIKLAS
APR 24, 2026
The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company
DIANA HU
APR 16, 2026
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
DIANA HU, GARRY TAN, HARJ TAGGAR, JARED FRIEDMAN, QUAN VUONG, UNIDENTIFIED PARTICIPANT
APR 6, 2026
This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads
DAVID TSAO, JARED FRIEDMAN, OGUZHAN ATAY
MAR 31, 2026
This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s
JARED FRIEDMAN, KARINE MELLATA
MAR 27, 2026
How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI
FRANÇOIS CHOLLET, HOST 1 (Y COMBINATOR), HOST 2 (Y COMBINATOR), HOST 3 (Y COMBINATOR), HOST 4 (Y COMBINATOR)
DEC 3, 2025
Founder Habits You Need To Drop To Be A Great CEO
NOV 14, 2025
AI Is Eating Logistics
HOST (UNNAMED), RYAN PETERSON
OCT 31, 2025
Good News For Startups: Enterprise Is Bad At AI
ANDY, JARED