10x a year for 3 years? I've seen a lot of growth, and that is truly exceptional. It's not unusual for startups to grow 10x in a year, but t...
Last year's April Fool's joke is this year's reality (except for the name of the problem obviously). https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/190...
The Tesla Model 3 with FSD is mind-blowing. Jessica and I drove to the gym without touching the controls once. It backed out of our driveway...
One question founders always ask when we speak at YC is: How much of the standard startup advice still applies in the age of AI? At this poi...
If customers won't buy your stuff, try asking what they would buy. This sounds obvious, but surprisingly few founders do it, and it often yi...
Did office hours yesterday with a very smart but nerdy founder. When I suggested he might want a more outgoing cofounder to do sales, he sai...
Did office hours yesterday with a very smart but nerdy founder. When I suggested he might want a more outgoing cofounder to do sales, he sai...
Talked to someone recently who knows a lot about defense tech, and he made an interesting point: the test of most military hardware right no...
Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will ...
When you talk to successful founders, they always wish they'd hired fewer top managers from outside. I don't think I've ever met a founder w...
Talking to Amjad yesterday, I realized Replit is more important than I'd previously thought. It's the way AI pervades organizations. Organiz...
It's great to have competitors who are motivated by money. If they're any good, they eventually get it, and then they stop working. And if t...
"You said it would consume all my time and attention, but it really does consume all your time and attention." — friend who started a st...
"You said it would consume all my time and attention, but it really does consume all your time an attention." — friend who started a start...
I've been talking to a YC founder who's 15 years in and still doing big new things. One of the biggest popular misconceptions about startups...
A company name that appeals to corporate buyers may not appeal so much to their customers.
Don't own the .com? The good news is, there's no such thing. "The .com" is just the only .com you've been able to think of so far.
"Do not bet against the airplane. The skeptics who say AI can't conjecture, can't theorize, and can't explain are describing last spring's m...
There were a lot of things that only worked because there's a limit to the rate at which humans can operate. We're about to find out what al...
AI startups grow really fast. That's why valuations have gotten so high. Not just because AI is the cool new thing, but because so many AI s...