Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. As we venture together into the unknown, Pioneers is your tool to understanding and anticipating what comes next.
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Welcome to Unicorn Bakery: The podcast for the most ambitious founders & teams. Learn the tactics and lessons learned from the world's best founders and their teams to find out what it takes to start your startup, successfully scale, or support a founder turning their vision into reality. Unicorn Bakery is the founder's podcast about the essential questions and topics when starting a startup. We interview founders to cover every phase of the startup process, from idea generation and strategy ...
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Being Awesome, the show about loving Transformers and having fun! The equivalent of the stickers on your old Trapper Keeper, is an audio fanzine that Talks Transformers and occasional other similar interests without all the negativity that for some reason always finds a way to pop up.
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Guided Meditations & Sleep Stories for Kids and Adults of all ages. Download our App for Free: https://www.newhorizonholisticcentre.co.uk/newhorizonapp.html
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Wild Hearts is the podcast that reveals the real-time lessons from the founders and operators changing the world.
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"Care Tech & Tips" is like tech support meets family therapy, with two guys who’ve been there. The podcast that helps you bring order to caregiving chaos. Get smarter with tech, money, and care strategies—without the overwhelm. We keep it real, light, and actually helpful.
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Explore Wikipedia in a daily podcast with Rachel Teichman, LMSW, and Victor Varnado, KSN as they read articles aloud and provide light commentary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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We help founders make something people want. The Y Combinator Podcast is where builders talk about building. From the earliest days of an idea to scaling a company that changes the world, YC partners and founders share real stories, lessons, and tactics from the frontlines.
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Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) is accelerating education, adoption and innovation in partnership with global universities. We can better understand this emerging tech by hearing from scholars who are developing real use-case that solve for today's challenges. Host Lauren Weymouth interviews leading blockchain experts covering various applications across a wide range of sectors.
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The Second Day Film Podcast is a conversation about the magic of the movies. We discuss films old and new through unique segments and featured reviews. Because tickets are cheap on Tuesday.
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Your weekly dose of startups and venture capital. Brandon Osian and Sam Gordon prescribe all you'll need to get into the wonderful world of venture. From fundraising news to startup deep dives, you can expect to stay up to date with the most innovative, exciting companies out there.
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The Slowbrow Show explore the artist world focusing mainly on female artists, artist parents, and people who experience various life changes clashing with the fresh coolness of artlife. Fear not! I will also hand out useful techniques for various styles and helpful advice from inspiring artists and curators. Do you have a question for me or my guests? Email me at [email protected] or record a voice message using the free Anchor app. Thank you for listening!
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The Indian Dream tells the stories of the profitable, long term thinker, risk-taker Entrepreneur because the country needs to be told that there's also a way to build long term value generating businesses in the era of VC funded hyper-growth engines. We wish to use these voices to showcase the strength of the Indian entrepreneurial spirit that forms the backbone of the nation.
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ARC-AGI is redefining how to measure progress on the path to AGI - focusing on reasoning, generalization, and adaptability instead of memorization or scale. During this month's NeurIPS 2025 conference, YC's Diana Hu sat down with ARC Prize Foundation President Greg Kamradt to find out why most AI benchmarks fail, how ARC-AGI reveals the limits of t…
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‘Like Disneyland when it just opened’: Arm CEO Rene Haas on the AI revolution
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21:27Chances are, you’ve used computer chips from the company Arm. The UK firm’s CPUs are in almost every smartphone, plus a ton of laptops, cars, even refrigerators – not to mention their integral role around AI infrastructure in data centers. Pioneers of AI host Rana el Kaliouby sat down with Arm CEO Rene Haas recently, live on stage at Fortune Brains…
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Hardy Michel & Shak Lala: Go slow to go fast
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1:00:51How did two first time founders get so wise? Paying customers in four countries within weeks of launch. Firms signing pilot agreements before a product existed. Advisers calling Marloo life-changing. Not useful, not efficient, life-changing. The secret? Going slow to go fast. Hardy and Shak met at Sharesies where they helped build one of New Zealan…
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AI Rollups: How Legacy Industries Are Turning AI Into Million-Dollar Businesses
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37:19In this episode, Cyrus Hessabi from Shore Capital Partners discusses the intersection of AI, traditional services, and roll-up strategies. He shares insights on how AI is transforming service businesses, why the democratization of AI creates new opportunities, and how the next generation of service companies will be built. Key Learnings: AI-Enabled…
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Sleep Story for Kids | SANTA'S NEW REINDEER: North Pole's got Talent! | Guided Meditation for Children
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24:00Enjoy this festive story where Santa decides to run a talent show to replace Rudolf after his retirement to a tropical island!By New Horizon
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Head of Design Ryo Lu helped transform Cursor from a feature-layer on top of VS Code into one of the world's leading AI code editors.He joins YC's Aaron Epstein on Design Review to talk about the path that brought him to Cursor, how rapid prototyping reshaped the core product and how he's breaking down the barriers that once separated designers and…
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In just a few years, James Hawkins took PostHog from an idea hacked together right before YC's W20 deadline to a unicorn powering product analytics for thousands of teams. He joins YC's Brad Flora to talk about surviving six months of "pivot hell," why open-source analytics was the breakthrough, and how PostHog grew from fighting for its first user…
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Visualizing the AI boom (or bubble), with Carta’s Peter Walker
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42:14We’ve all heard the hype, but what does the data say about the AI gold rush? According to Peter Walker, Head of Insights for Carta, around 40 percent of the money they see being raised goes to AI companies. A master of data visualization, Walker takes investment information from the over 55,000 start-ups on Carta and turns it into digestible figure…
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DIY or DYOR? The NCA's Guide to Crypto Confidence | Ali Tager
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27:32The narrative around cryptocurrency is often bogged down by complexity, hype, and fear of scams. In this episode, host Lauren Weymouth cuts through the noise with Ali Tager, Head of Communications for the National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA), to reveal who is really using crypto in America and why. The NCA is on a mission to bridge the knowled…
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Jeka Viktorova: Six weeks from dying, then the world came knocking
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55:25This is the most technical episode we've ever done. Listen anyway. Yes, there are acronyms. Yes, you'll learn what a chiplet is. Worth it. But here's what you'll actually get: one of the best founder conversations we've recorded. Not because of the tech—but because of the humanity inside the tech. Last year, Syenta had six weeks of cash left. No te…
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Sleep Story for Kids | THE SNOW VILLAGE | Guided Meditation for Children
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24:44Embark on a magical winter adventure to the snow village which is run by Snow-men, Snow-women & Snow-childrenBy New Horizon
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Walmart, AI, and the future of shopping, with Walmart CTO Suresh Kumar
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33:14Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is starting an AI-driven transformation that it says will impact every aspect of shopping and operations. Suresh Kumar, Walmart's Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer, leads that effort. Kumar joins Pioneers of AI to take us inside Walmart’s adoption of robotics and AI in its warehouses, stor…
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Adam Gilmour: We took the risk first. Then the government came.
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40:31Most founders wait for perfect conditions. Not Adam Gilmour. He started Gilmour Space before Australia even had a space agency. On July 30, that bet paid off. Australia's first launch permit. Fourteen seconds of flight. Right in the middle of the pack globally - SpaceX took four attempts to reach orbit. Those 14 seconds proved everything that matte…
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Our version of the old festive poem originally written by Clement Clarke MooreBy New Horizon
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The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now
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39:35Every major shift in consumer tech has a moment when it suddenly becomes accessible to millions. Michael Mignano helped spark one of those moments with Anchor, making podcast creation something anyone could do with a tap. Now at Lightspeed, he sees AI bringing a similar leap to music, media, and everyday apps.In this conversation, he and Garry trac…
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Andrew Ng on winning the AI race, with DJ Patil
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23:41Andrew Ng has been a leading voice in AI for over a decade. As Managing General Partner at AI Fund, and co-founder of Coursera and DeepLearning, among other roles, Ng has shaped the modern AI landscape and spread AI education to the masses. Onstage at this year’s Masters of Scale Summit, he sat down with former US Chief Data Scientist and now Gener…
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Episode 108: Frankenstein, Materialists, Eddington, Death by Lightning, Thanksgiving films
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1:13:08Mike and Champ sneak in a show before Thanksgiving because they are thankful for the movies and this humble podcasts. The guys briefly discuss their favorite Thanksgiving films before diving into four titles released in 2025. They discuss the Guillermo del Toro's visually stunning reflection on humanity, loneliness and suffering in his passion proj…
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Alex Wyatt: When seven years of platform work becomes seven-week product cycles
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1:04:05Most robotics companies die trying to build their first product. Alex Wyatt spent seven years building the platform so the second product took seven weeks. When August Robotics launched their exhibition robot in November 2019, it blew up - standing ovation, early revenue, real momentum. Then COVID hit. Exhibitions banned globally for 23 months. Zer…
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Sleep Story for Kids | YOUR FESTIVE TREEHOUSE | Guided Meditation for Children
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19:27Spend some time decorating your treehouse, just the way you want it! You may even invite some very special visitors...By New Horizon
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We are taking a holiday hiatus! See you soon.By Barry Johnson and Bobby Clark
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Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites
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35:34Cursor Head of Design Ryo Lu has spent his career at the intersection of design and engineering—from building fan sites as a kid to designing products at Stripe, Asana, and Notion. Now he's rethinking how software itself gets made. On this episode of Design Review, Ryo joins YC's Aaron Epstein to break down how great product websites communicate wh…
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Mark Cuban’s investment strategy in the world of AI
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40:09Mark Cuban has spent decades as a serial entrepreneur and investor, with one of the best track records on the planet (including celebrity status on ABC’s Shark Tank). His success stems in part from an ability to spot opportunity early — and now he’s bringing that approach to AI. Cuban is backing AI companies that he sees taking bold swings and reim…
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Nikki Brown: When you stop being a cog, you become the machine
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1:00:35Nikki Brown is a Cambridge graduate who quit a dream job at Google after mere months. "I wasn't happy being a cog in a machine," she says. So she built her own. Today, Nikki is co-founder and CEO of Cartesian, an AI-native platform backed by Blackbird that turns SaaS ecosystems into retention and growth engines. Cartesian's AI agents analyse user n…
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Sleep Story for Kids | THE CHRISTMAS COTTAGE: Storytime with Santa | Guided Meditation for Children
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26:25Storytime with Santa: Enjoy this magical Christmas adventure with Santa & friends.By New Horizon
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Possible: Lisa Su on semiconductors, compute, and big bets
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42:40What’s the role of semiconductors—and the companies that make them—in powering human progress? What does it look like to innovate thoughtfully in a landscape where the demand for power may be higher than the supply? With AI evolving faster and faster, how can we keep up? Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su joins the show to talk about hardware…
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Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space
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12:55Starcloud recently made history by launching a satellite with an NVIDIA H100 into orbit — the first time a GPU that powerful has ever operated in space. It's the first step toward building AI data centers in orbit, powered by continuous sunlight and cooled by radiating heat into deep space.Their approach could one day rival the world's biggest data…
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How AI can unlock life-saving cures, with Siddhartha Mukherjee
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28:58Discovering new medicines has long been a slow, inefficient, and expensive process. Siddhartha Mukherjee, esteemed cancer biologist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Emperor of All Maladies, is looking to change that. That’s why he partnered with Reid Hoffman to found Manas AI, a company that uses AI to accelerate drug discovery and…
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The Robotics Inflection: Why This Time Is Different (ft. Joe Harris, Alloy)
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54:12There’s a graveyard of robotics companies—billions torched on beautiful demos we’ve all seen before, but never felt. This episode explains why the economics, the software, and the demand curve have finally flipped—and how Alloy plans to fuel the winners. Joe Harris returns to Wild Hearts—but this time as a founder. An engineer by training (ML for t…
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Sleep Story for Kids | WINTER WONDERLAND | Guided Meditation for Children
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27:34Take the journey of a lifetime to the Magical Winter Wonderland where you will get to meet the Emperor Penguin.By New Horizon
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How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps
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43:20Most founders think hiring is about interviewing. But it's actually about selling.For Startup School, Juicebox co-founder & CEO David Paffenholz joins YC's Harj Taggar to share how early-stage founders can find, pitch, and close top engineering and sales talent— from crafting better outreach to winning great hires from Big Tech— even when you're an…
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Designing AI for people and the planet, with Aza Raskin
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44:34AI is rapidly changing what it means to be human, but is AI development truly human-centered? According to Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, the answer is largely “no.” The man who invented the “infinite scroll” is now working to understand why the most powerful technology so often fails to prioritize the human experience …
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Andrea Quinn: The operator behind a unicorn's growth engine
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52:01You don't have to be the founder to build the future. When Andrea Quinn made the leap from fashion merchandising to tech, she didn't start a company. She joined one. Today, she's VP of Go-To-Market Operations at Halter, New Zealand's newest unicorn, which just raised $155 million at a $1.55 billion valuation. Not every path into building the future…
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Sleep Story for Kids | YOUR TROPICAL ISLAND | Guided Meditation for Children
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23:43Take a trip into the magical forest where you discover a gigantic talking tree which houses your very own Tropical Treehouse of Sleep & Relaxation.By New Horizon
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Episode 107: How to Train Your Dragon, 28 Years Later, The Lost Bus, Throwback Theater (1997)
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1:32:30Mike and Champ return just before Halloween to discuss one of the biggest horror films of the year in Danny Boyle's long-awaited 28 Years Later. The guys talk about the fresh approach to the genre, as well as its divisive third act. Also, did the live action How to Train Your Dragon justify its existence? Also the fiery spectacle of every day peopl…
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Baratunde Thurston wants us to reimagine our relationship with AI
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36:47How we decide to live with AI, at home or at work, will greatly impact our personal and professional futures. Baratunde Thurston, a comedian, writer, and commentator, has had a long career exploring what a harmonious relationship between human beings and our machines could look like. Now, as host and co-creator of the podcast Life with Machines, he…
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Xavier Collins: The AI studio unlocking the future of storytelling
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1:01:46When storytelling meets startup energy, magic happens. In this week’s episode, Xavier Collins, co-founder of Wonder, joins Mason to explore how technology is tearing down the old gates of Hollywood, and what happens when anyone, anywhere, can tell stories that move the world. Backed by Blackbird and LocalGlobe, Wonder is building an AI-native creat…
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From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups
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39:24Jake Heller is the co-founder & CEO of Casetext, the AI legal startup behind CoCounsel, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650 million.In his talk at AI Startup School on June 17th, 2025, he shared how his team did it—from picking the right idea to building AI products that actually work—and how founders can turn a cool demo into a reliable…
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Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution
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9:18Nearly every modern AI model, from ChatGPT and Claude to Gemini and Grok, is built on the same foundation: the Transformer.In this video, YC's Ankit Gupta traces how AI learned to understand language — from early RNNs and LSTMs to attention mechanisms and the breakthrough 2017 paper Attention Is All You Need — the discovery that unlocked the modern…
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Could this be the future of K-12 education?, with Alpha School’s Joe Liemandt
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24:39Educators around the world are wrangling with AI in learning. At Alpha School, a private K-12 school based in Texas, students use AI-driven software to complete core subjects in about two hours’ time. They spend the rest of the school day with guides for social-emotional learning, project-based work, and life skills. Joe Liemandt, longtime software…
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Lessons from the climb: Michelle Battersby on building Sunroom
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1:06:47When Michelle Battersby launched Sunroom, she set out to change the game for women creators, building a platform where they could earn freely, safely, and on their own terms. Five years, three funding rounds and one pandemic later, she did just that. Thousands of creators made life-changing income, and Sunroom was acquired by Fanfix. From the emoti…
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YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours
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38:32Every founder faces moments where they’re not sure what to do next — such as how to go to market with AI products, when to pivot, and who/when to hire. In this episode of Office Hours, YC partners Pete Koomen, Brad Flora, Nicolas Dessaigne, and Gustaf Alströmer answer real questions from founders and share stories about how great teams build convic…
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