The Latest Breaking News from Y Combinator

A new Y Combinator–backed product that people initially thought was deliberately unserious and gimmicky, dubbing it "rage bait" rather than a real tool, has big ambitions for helping developers increase productivity.

“Disregarding that advice was definitely one of the things I got right,” Ohanian said.

Jesse Itzler, who ultimately sold his $5 billion-in-sales private jet business to Warren Buffett, says the world doesn’t reward perfect plans, "it rewards action."

Mindstate Design Labs is developing drugs that aim to deliver psychedelic benefits without a trip, drawing funding from Y Combinator and the founders of OpenAI, Neuralink, Instacart (NASDAQ:CART), Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), and Twitch, according to Wired.

The co-founder of Silicon Valley’s most influential startup accelerator is delivering a reality check to ambitious teenagers everywhere. Paul Graham, whose Y Combinator has funded giants like Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB), Stripe, Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), and Reddit (NYSE:RDDT), is warning high schoolers to pump the brakes on their entrepreneurial dreams.

Since dropping out of Stanford University, Sam Altman has become one of the world's most influential tech entrepreneurs – at the helm of OpenAI and its artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT. The author of a new biography of Altman tells RFI what his ascent reveals about AI, Silicon Valley and how…

One of the leaders behind Silicon Valley’s biggest start-ups is advising high school students to embrace learning in class before jumping into their dream business.

At just 23 years old, Rohan Vasishth and Faraz Siddiqi left jobs at Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to pursue a risky bet.

Nuclear stocks are flying high this year. But one pre-revenue startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman could produce enormous gains over the long-term.