In this special episode of Lightcone Podcast, YC partner and creator of Gmail Paul Buchheit joins us to discuss some of the latest trends in AI and startups. We cover the future of work, the power of agency and taste, and why this is the absolute best time to be building a startup.

There has never been a better time to start an AI startup, but many founders find themselves stuck when it comes to thinking of a good idea. In this episode, the Lightcone Podcast hosts look at the different approaches founders can take to find meaningful problems to solve.

We're in the middle of the AI revolution, and it's transforming business at every level. Aaron Levie (Aaron Levie), the co-founder & CEO of Box, joins the Lightcone Podcast to talk about how AI can drive abundance, unlock new possibilities, and change the way companies compete & operate.

Andrej Karpathy recently coined the term “vibe coding” to describe how LLMs are getting so good that devs can “give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, the hosts discuss this new way of programming

Co-founder disputes can be startup killers— but it doesn't have to be that way. On the Lightcone Podcast, Garry, Harj, Jared, and Diana share their experiences navigating co-founder conflict and their advice for how you can manage these challenges at your own startup.

Varun Mohan (Varun Mohan) didn't set out to build one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools. He just knew his company had to change, or die. After initially betting on GPU virtualization, he saw the writing on the wall: if there was a future for his company, it would be at

Windsurf Founder: AI Will 10x Every Part of Coding - Faster Than You Think "It's gonna get crazy." "Every part of the software development life cycle, whether it be writing code, reviewing code, testing code, debugging code, designing code, AI is gonna be adding 10X the amount

There's never been a better time to start an AI company. Not just because there are new ideas, but because the tech finally makes old ones actually work. On the Lightcone Podcast, Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, Diana, and Jared Friedman talk through the kinds of startups that are

At first, prompting seemed to be a temporary workaround for getting the most out of large language models. But over time, it's become critical to the way we interact with AI. On the Lightcone Podcast, Garry, Harj, Diana, and Jared break down what they've learned from working with

Prompting AI agents to consistently do what you want is becoming the most important skill for founders to learn and build their companies around. We share some of the more advanced techniques we've learned from founders, and building AI agents ourselves at YC, in the latest

Alexandr Wang (Alexandr Wang) started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster. It started as a simple API for human labor, but behind the scenes, he was tackling a much bigger problem: how to turn messy, real-world data into something AI could learn from.

AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path. New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, small, focused teams are scaling from zero to eight-figure revenue in months. In