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- 2 days ago11 min
How to Build an AI-Native Services Company
Some of the biggest companies of the next decade won't be software businesses, they'll be services companies like insurance carriers, law firms, and tax practices rebuilt from scratch with AI doing most of the work. In this episode of Startup School, YC Visiting Partner Charlie Warren walks through the playbook for building AI native services companies, covering how to pick a market with the right traits, why variance kills these businesses faster than anything else, and the P&L math that’ll transform your business model.Chapters:00:00 — Intro to AI Services Companies01:01 — Picking the Right Market02:55 — Markets YC Likes Right Now03:43 — The Sam Altman Test04:35 — The Right Founding Team05:28 — Building the Product06:19 — Variance Is the Existential Problem07:08 — The Early Demand Trap07:53 — How to Price AI Services08:41 — The P&L Walkthrough09:33 — AI Operating Leverage10:27 — Don't Buy Your Way InApply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/applyWork at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs
- 1 weeks agointerview46 min6-min read
How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company
The key to building superintelligence in a company isn't using AI as a co-pilot, but as the foundational layer for all operations. By treating AI agents as first-class participants in organizational workflows—powered by shared context, open tool registries, and self-improving skills—companies can create a collective intelligence that continuously evolves.
- 1 weeks ago50 min
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
In this episode of the Main Function Garry sits down with Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup", about his new book, "Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad And How Great Companies Stay Great". Ries breaks down why shareholder primacy often leads to company and product degradation, how founders can lose control of the companies they build, and what legal structures and governance models can protect a company's core mission from outside threats.
- 3 weeks agosolo21 min4-min read
Paul Graham: Should you move to Silicon Valley?
The most important thing ambitious startup founders can do is go to Silicon Valley, even if temporarily, to immerse themselves in its dense ecosystem of talent, speed, and culture. Returning home afterward not only improves their own startups but also helps elevate local hubs like Stockholm, potentially transforming them into Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley.
- 4 weeks agoconversational41 min5-min read
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
Gary Tan, after a 13-year hiatus from coding, has returned to building software at an unprecedented pace by leveraging AI agents, token-maxing strategies, and agentic workflows—shipping hundreds of thousands of lines of code while running Y Combinator. He argues that developers must now choose: will they control their tools, or will the tools control them?
- May 1, 2026interview37 min5-min read
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
Recursive neural architectures like Hierarchical Reasoning Models (HRM) and Tiny Recursive Models (TRM) demonstrate that deep reasoning can emerge in small models through iterative computation, challenging the dominant paradigm of scaling up transformer size. These models achieve state-of-the-art performance on complex reasoning tasks like ARC-Prize with just millions of parameters by leveraging recursion at inference and training time, bypassing the limitations of feedforward transformers.
- Apr 29, 2026interview40 min6-min read
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind and leader of Google DeepMind, believes artificial general intelligence (AGI) is likely by 2030 and that current AI systems, while powerful, still lack key capabilities like continual learning, long-term reasoning, and true scientific creativity. The path to AGI lies in agent-based systems that can actively solve problems, with multimodal, efficient, and tool-using models forming the foundation.
- Apr 25, 2026interview39 min3-min read
The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers
Replit, led by CEO Amjad Masad, is pioneering a no-code, AI-driven platform that enables anyone — not just traditional developers — to build real, scalable software using natural language and multimodal interfaces, with its latest Agent 4 release enabling parallel agent workflows, design integration, and enterprise-ready collaboration.
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