AI isn't just making teams more productive. It's changing how companies should be built.

In this episode of Startup School, YC Partner Diana Hu explains what it means to build an AI-native company, where AI isn't just a tool but the operating system your company runs on.

She breaks down how to make your company queryable so agents can improve across every function, why management hierarchies break down when an intelligence layer replaces human middleware, and why early-stage founders have a massive edge in building this way from day one.

00:58 - AI as your company’s operating system
01:57 - Open vs closed loop companies
03:00 - Making your company fully queryable
05:00 - The rise of the 1,000x engineer
07:12 - Why middle management disappears
09:12 - Startups will win this shift

Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply
Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs