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Building AI Models Faster And Cheaper Than You Think | Lightcone Podcast
If you read articles about companies like OpenAI and Anthropic training foundation models, it would be natural to assume that if you don’t have a billion dollars or the resources of a large company, you can’t train your own foundational models. But the opposite is true.
In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, we discuss the strategies to build a foundational model from scratch in less than 3 months with examples of YC companies doing just that. We also get an exclusive look at Open AI's Sora! -
Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas | Dalton & Michael Podcast
One trait that many great founders share is conviction. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we’ll talk about finding confidence in what you're building, the dangers of inaccurate assumptions, and a question founders need to ask themselves before they start trying to sell to anyone else.
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Where Is The REAL Cerebral Valley? | Lightcone Podcast
In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, YC Group Partners chart the evolution of San Francisco as the center of the startup world and how AI has brought everyone back to the city.
They also talk about why YC chose to open our new HQ in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco and share their advice for new founders moving to the city for the first time. -
Stop Innovating (On The Wrong Things) | Dalton & Michael Podcast
Startups need to innovate to succeed. But not all innovation is made equal and reinventing some common best practices could actually hinder your company. In this episode, Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the common innovation pitfalls founders should avoid so they can better focus on their product and their customers.
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Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future? | Lightcone Podcast
In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, YC Group Partners discuss the launch of the Apple Vision Pro and the potential of this new platform for new startups. This is a deep dive into the technical innovations Apple has made for this product, how this compares to the launch of the iPhone, and advice for founders interested in building in this space.
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Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital? | Dalton & Michael Podcast
Within the world of startups, you'll find lots of discourse online about the experiences of founders bootstrapping their startups versus the founders who have raised venture capital to fund their companies.
Is one better than the other? Truth is, it may not be so black and white. Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the virtues and struggles of both paths.
Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply
Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs
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The best podcast!
Very valuable podcast with lots of free research and information.
the laughing
laughing that sounds this annoying can only be emitted from snarky venture capitalists
Want to know the techbros and problems with it?
Start here. Don’t need to go to Silicon Valley to experience it.
Some good advice.
But it’s easier to laugh at people and talk like this than to humbly be constructive or to build successful global/publicly listed companies. That’s why they are here in the business of mansplaining.
Tech is to serve people and other industries. It’s just a tool and business model, even SaaS at the end is just a tool for either analytics, marketing outreach, or project management, document processing etc. The fact that it is wrongly glorified and has been slapped by the reality of bad performance for the past 2 year says that these people don’t truly understand (global) market dynamics, in human relations, systems or policies. Have they even gone out of their bubble?