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Business operating systems
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Should you go to Silicon Valley, and how can Stockholm thrive as a startup hub?
Y Combinator
May 13, 2026
Business operating systems
8
Bootstrapping
5
Identity & self-belief
5
Serendipitous meetings in startup hubs drive outsized life outcomes
Going to Silicon Valley then returning is the best thing for Stockholm
Critical mass for a European Silicon Valley is still up for grabs
AI tools & automation
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How one founder built 400x more code using AI agents and token maxing
Y Combinator
May 8, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Case studies
8
Automation & tools
7
Rebuilt a full blog platform in 5 days for $200 instead of $4M
Token maxing: spending aggressively on compute beats economising every time
Thin harnesses, fat skills — put intelligence in markdown, not brittle code
Founder interviews
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How Razorpay built India's largest payments platform from scratch
Y Combinator
May 6, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
8
Bootstrapping
7
Regulation forced a year of zero revenue — and became their deepest moat.
Early UPI bet landed Zomato, Swiggy overnight while rivals scrambled.
AI compresses the build; only knowing what to build now matters.
AI strategy & adoption
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Demis Hassabis on AGI, agents, and AI-driven scientific discovery
Y Combinator
April 29, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Long-term planning
7
AI tools & automation
6
AGI needs continual learning — context windows are brute-force, not intelligence.
AlphaFold's pattern: combinatorial search space, clear objective, enough data.
Plan your deep-tech startup around AGI arriving mid-journey, circa 2030.
No-code & low-code
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Replit's CEO on building software without code and the future of work
Y Combinator
April 25, 2026
No-code & low-code
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Founder interviews
6
Domain experts now build better software than outsourced dev teams.
Only two roles survive AI: builders and salespeople-as-educators.
True product-market fit is unmistakable — mild traction is not it.
AI strategy & adoption
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How to build an AI-native company from the ground up
Y Combinator
April 24, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business operating systems
8
Automation & tools
6
AI is a new capability layer, not just a productivity boost
Every company process should run as a self-improving closed loop
Three archetypes replace middle management in AI-native orgs
Automation & tools
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How GStack turns Claude Code into an AI engineering team
Y Combinator
April 23, 2026
Automation & tools
9
AI tools & automation
7
Delegation
5
AI models wander without team structure — GStack encodes the missing process.
Office hours reframes your idea before a line of code is written.
A Playwright-based browser tool replaces a broken MCP and enables real QA automation.
How Stripe redesigned its homepage after six years
Y Combinator
April 22, 2026
Design thinking
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AI tools & automation
6
Why Stripe waited six years — then spent over a year redesigning
Bento layouts beat scrolly sections for lean-back product discovery
AI accelerates exploration but cannot replace craft or taste
AI strategy & adoption
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Physical Intelligence: building a foundation model for any robot
Y Combinator
April 16, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Product-market fit
6
A single cross-embodiment model now outperforms hardware-specific specialists by 50%.
Tasks needing hundreds of data-collection hours last year now run zero-shot.
The startup playbook: cheap hardware, mixed autonomy, break even before scaling.
BillionToOne: from half a lab bench to cancer's holy grail
Y Combinator
April 6, 2026
Case studies
10
Scaling infrastructure
6
B2C sales
5
Synthetic DNA added before amplification strips noise no other test can remove.
Patient-to-doctor sales strategy rescued a launch with only one physician user.
Annual cancer screening for healthy populations is the company's ultimate target.
Founder interviews
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How Variance built AI agents to catch fraud at scale
Y Combinator
March 31, 2026
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
8
Automation & tools
6
AI agents replace rules engines, classifiers, and human analysts entirely
Detected state-sponsored fraud rings no isolated classifier could have found
12-person team processing petabytes, operating like a 25-person engineering org
AI strategy & adoption
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Why scaling alone won't get us to AGI: François Chollet on ARC and intelligence
Y Combinator
March 27, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
10
Long-term planning
5
Scaling LLMs 50,000x left ARC scores near zero — size isn't intelligence.
AGI means human-level learning efficiency, not automating known domains.
Endia is rebuilding ML from scratch using symbolic models, not neural nets.
How Solugen built a billion-dollar clean chemical company from a $10,000 reactor
Y Combinator
March 20, 2026
Case studies
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Business models
6
A pancreatic cancer enzyme became the key to 96% yield industrial chemistry
Starting with $10K and hot tub owners forced precision competitors couldn't copy
Billboards targeting one decision-maker landed their first oil and gas contract
How Emergent built a production-ready AI coding platform for non-technical users
Y Combinator
March 16, 2026
Case studies
9
Pivoting
7
AI tools & automation
6
80% of users have zero coding knowledge yet ship real production apps.
Solving verification first unlocks full software engineering automation.
SaaS faces two existential headwinds: agents and personalised software.
Conversion rate optimisation
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Avoiding AI design slop on startup landing pages
Y Combinator
March 6, 2026
Conversion rate optimisation
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Design thinking
6
Purple gradients and hover effects now mark every AI-built site as generic
Scroll-jacking and fade-ins destroy conversion by hiding content from users
Founders must brief the AI with brand intent — not just accept all changes