# startup school (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover startup school. Page: Feed: --- ## [Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Chelsea-Finn-This-is-the-State-of-the-Art-in-Robotics-e3nc492) _2026-08-13 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ Robots can already fold laundry, make espresso, clean kitchens, and assemble things. The harder problem is getting them to do those tasks reliably, for long periods of time, without a human babysitting them. At Startup School 2026, Physical Intelligence cofounder Chelsea Finn explains what it takes to build general-purpose robots that work in the real world. She shares how reinforcement learning… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/124178146/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-13%2F429782123-44100-2-cab930f0a7ef2.mp3) ## [Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Peter-Steinberger-Fun-Is-Velocity-e3n9eat) _2026-08-11 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ Last November, Peter Steinberger was annoyed that there was no good way to talk to his coding agents from his phone, so he built one himself. A few months later, OpenClaw had exploded into one of the biggest open source AI projects in the world, with nearly 3,000 contributors and a peak of 4.7 million weekly downloads.At Startup School 2026, Peter tells the story of what happened when OpenClaw… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/124090141/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-11%2F429659619-44100-2-294fb99113552.mp3) ## [Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Max-Hodak-How-Startups-Build-Speed-e3n8178) _2026-08-10 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ Science is building a retinal implant that restores vision to people who have gone blind. One patient has already used it to read a 300-page novel.Building a company like that requires a lot more than getting the technology right. At Startup School 2026, Science CEO Max Hodak explains how the company buys things and hires people, and why those systems determine how fast it can move.He also gets… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/124043944/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-10%2F429595889-44100-2-a070af848a476.mp3) ## [How To Design In The Agent Era](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/How-To-Design-In-The-Agent-Era-e3n42jd) _2026-08-07 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ AI isn't just changing the tools designers use. It's changing how they build, ship, and stand out. In this episode of Design Review, Stephen Haney, founder of AI-native design tool Paper, joins YC General Partner Aaron Epstein to demo the agent-first workflow that's making Paper one of the fastest-growing design tools since Figma. Using live redesigns of user-submitted websites as examples, they… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/123914285/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-7%2F429419166-44100-2-5b7b650740ab6.mp3) ## [Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Garry-Tan-Own-Your-Intelligence-e3n2rc1) _2026-08-06 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ The next generation of startups will be built by smaller teams than ever before. At Startup School 2026, YC President & CEO Garry Tan explains why we're entering the era of personal AGI: AI agents that run on your own infrastructure, compound your knowledge over time, and dramatically increase your ability to build. He shares the tools and workflows he uses every day, why every founder should own… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/123874113/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-6%2F429363789-44100-2-e2c4dd8914daf.mp3) ## [Building the First Data Centers in Space](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Building-the-First-Data-Centers-in-Space-e3n13ek) _2026-08-05 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ Philip Johnston is the co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, the company building data centers in space. In November 2025, Starcloud launched an Nvidia H100 GPU into orbit and trained the first large language model in space. They've since raised $200 million, hit a billion-dollar valuation just 17 months after YC demo day, and filed with the FCC to deploy 88,000 more satellites. In this episode, Philip… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/123816852/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-5%2F429283987-44100-2-43ac4a2874969.mp3) ## [Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Waymo-Co-CEO-Dmitri-Dolgov-Move-Fast-And-Ship-Safely-e3mvft2) _2026-08-04 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ Waymo’s first autonomous demo took eighteen months. The product took fifteen years. Today, the Waymo Driver runs 500,000 trips a week — four million fully autonomous miles across fifteen cities, with 17 times fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers. At Startup School 2026, Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov shares the seven lessons behind that journey, from bridging the gap between a demo and a… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/123764066/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-4%2F429211619-44100-2-80c61c5d2a7a4.mp3) ## [Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Patrick-Collison-What-If-You-Succeed-e3mtper) _2026-08-03 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ In 2009, Patrick and John Collison went to Startup School in Berkeley, got sushi in Potrero Hill afterward, and decided on the walk home to start Stripe. The reasoning, as Patrick remembers it, was that “we might as well because it probably won't be that hard.” It took two years to launch. Seventeen years later, at Startup School 2026, he talks with YC's Harj Taggar about dropping out of MIT… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/123708315/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-3%2F429138468-44100-2-8806da84c4f95.mp3) ## [Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Jeff-Dean-The-1-Rule-for-Building-in-AI-e3mq28a) _2026-08-01 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ In 2001, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat did the math and realized Google’s entire search index would fit in RAM — then shipped it in a few days, and search got fast. In 2013, another napkin calculation showed that three minutes of daily speech recognition per user would require doubling Google’s server fleet. That one became the TPU. At Startup School 2026, Google’s Chief Scientist talks with YC’s… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/123586250/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-31%2F428976415-44100-2-4750afd8ab692.mp3) ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XD46vLnJCZP8) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes/Alexandr-Wang-This-is-a-Once-in-a-Civilization-Opportunity-e3mq1mh) _2026-07-31 · Y Combinator · Y Combinator Startup Podcast_ Alexandr Wang's advice to his 18-year-old self: develop your own internal compass for how the future will unfold, and hold conviction in it against the noise. At Startup School 2026, the Scale AI (YC S16) founder — now leading Meta's Superintelligence Labs — talks with Garry Tan about rebuilding a frontier lab from scratch, why talent density compounds, and how to spot the exponential worth… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/123585681/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-31%2F428975476-44100-2-60b67de499775.mp3)