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1:20:35What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club
ShortRobotic factories that build robots
29:49Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics
ShortRocket cargo delivery anywhere on Earth in minutes
ShortAutonomous construction on Earth and beyond
ShortDrone swarm defense
36:29The State of Startups in 2026
12:42Why You're Getting Zero Replies To Your Cold Emails
ShortMass Magnetics: USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense
ShortHappy Alumni Demo Day!
ShortIntroducing Early Access: An Invite only program for the Enterprise
1:00:11Why The Harness Matters More Than The Model | YC Paper Club
ShortPaul Graham on what motivates founders
ShortHard Tech Startups Are Built One Milestone at a Time
57:16Open Models Change The Economics of AI
21:25Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders
14:49The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew
59:40Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else
52:35Going In Deep On Data | YC Paper Club
39:44Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy
51:45Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
58:18Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
15:17Circleback CEO Ali Haghani: Why Your Company Should Be Recording More Meetings
41:53Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
1:24:13Why Robotics Still Isn't Solved - But Could Be Soon | YC Paper Club
57:03Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enough
56:02How To Design In The Agent Era
42:08Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence
36:14The Case For Data Centers In Space
49:24Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work
31:00Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?
57:07Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
1:16:25Lessons From Training Composer At Cursor And Building Meta/Nvidia Compute Clusters | YC Paper Club
32:10Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”
50:02Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jet
39:01Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"
35:52Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt
49:00Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA
ShortSelf-Maintaining APIs
47:36What Actually Makes A Startup Durable
ShortAI-Native Compliance Infrastructure
ShortProving You’re Human
29:10What Big Tech Missed And How Startups Can Still Win
20:11Why Physical AI Is the Next Platform Shift
ShortData for the Real World
ShortNew Operating Systems for the Physical World
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