In Y Combinator's "Startup School," partner Diana Hu advocated for startups to begin tokenmaxxing. "Maximizing token usage, not head count, will be the critical shift," Hu said. Tokens measure ...

We love a good ol’ social media roast, and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan found himself on the business end of a doozie Wednesday. Absolutely insane week for agentic ...

Every few months, a new group of startups arrives in San Francisco to go through the intensive accelerator program run by Y Combinator. Each company receives $500,000 in funding and spends three ...

Startup incubator Y Combinator said it will once again invest in Canada-incorporated companies, reversing course after Canadian entrepreneurs complained about its decision to spurn the country’s firms ...

Play too much Factorio, and you'll start seeing conveyor belts in your dreams. There's something mesmerizing about a sprawling network of production lines, and they sear themselves into your eyeballs ...

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, Silicon Valley has been consumed by the rush to build billion-dollar AI startups. Nowhere is that more true than at Y Combinator, the blue-chip startup ...

A massive phishing campaign targeted GitHub users with cryptocurrency drainers, delivered via fake invitations to the Y Combinator (YC) W2026 program. Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that funds ...

Startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator (YC) today filed an amicus brief supporting Epic Games in Epic's continued legal fight with Apple. Y Combinator says that Apple's ...

Big quote: The recently coined buzzword "vibe coding" is transforming the startup landscape, allowing companies to hit remarkable revenue targets with teams so small they're rewriting the rules of ...

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by AI. "What that means for founders is that you don't need a team of 50 or 100 engineers," ...

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The startup incubator Y Combinator was on the receiving end of online backlash earlier this week after a promotional video from one of its companies made waves for seemingly endorsing worker ...