"it feels like there's more energy around this batch than there has been for as long as I can remember for any YC batch like what do you think's happening there's a platform shift and this is the momen..."

"different doesn't it it does let's talk about how this batch is so different from the batches that we funded in the past some of it is you actually need to know where we've been and where we are right..."

"it's about 170 companies yep versus winter 20 we only had 8% of the companies maybe one of the notables from winter2 that you work with Jared was uh replicate yeah those replicate Founders they were i..."

"do you think it's bad or good I'm not sure okay here's Harge and I have opposing viewpoints on this question okay I'll make the case for why it may be bad like I think you could argue that pivoting in..."

"what like Drew in like young tacnical Founders like like the original Founders in the early YC batches they were building consumer apps as they were fun both uh you and Gary when you went through the ..."

"advice say if if a Founder came to you Gary and said hey like uh somebody told me that I shouldn't work on consumer ideas because Facebook's just going to crush anything I do well open AI well open AI..."

"tools right it's kind of like this uh technology Trend where you have like two phases I think it comes from this uh is from this book from Industrial Revolution is from these economists I think it pre..."

"there's actually a business there well in that respect Dev tools is basically B2B SAS but uh consumer style so you only have 20 million people who you have to actually Market to and you actually have ..."

"good job and I think you work with them Jared what was it at the beginning when they were doing the batch and what does it look like now well the cool thing about superbase is literally what got super..."

"yeah investors really pay attention to like the hack and use launches of these Dev tool companies CU that again super base had a phenomenal round that they raised around demo day and it was really all..."

"over again I mean there's sort of like the slack and then mattermost there's sort of the uh GitHub and then git lab which was a YC company um you know in sort of analytics we havee and poog exactly so..."

"the world and so much of that is done manually with humans filling out forms and flex was hey like well that could be why don't we just have like a software team that build software to help the people..."

"think AI is a force in the complete opposite direction right where it feels like if you want to work on a good AI idea you need to be at The Cutting Edge of actual AI technology and tooling which a ta..."

"I think what's funny is when we give the t-shirts at y combinator like when when you come to YC you get a t-shirt that says um something people want yeah there you go there go because it's the end of ..."

"ever funded but they come from a different era when a lot of the rest of the world was still coming up online right that's what it feels like to me if we like just how we're talking about Trends it ju..."

"reset platform we're so back guys so what have we funded less of this badge what have we seen move in the opposite direction well we funded a lot less stuff going after local markets so in the 2015 to..."

"those were really good YC funded some amazing epic companies they like monzo which banks some ridiculous percentage of the people in the UK grow in India which is Robin Hood for India is doing phenome..."

"I think because there so much about uh cerebral Valley all the AI progress Happening Here I think the fundamental reason it's not to be clear that we woke up one morning and we were like like we got t..."

"tool for Brazil it's just like use the same ones yeah right another thing that we're finding a lot less of now is crypto and here's something that the audience might not know about the two of you whic..."

"when I asked them what they wanted to do next it's like oh I just want to finish school and then once I finish I'll figure out another startup the failure of the crypto startups gave all startups a ba..."

"hard for crypto to recapture that imagination but like I still think by far away the big reason is just AI is like the exciting thing to work on which actually I do see uh I know it's a bit of a meme ..."

"they're definitely back we were talking about this right where it just it feels like we come across more applic we talking about this on our part we funded a record number of MIT grads in the last bat..."

"time I'm like you might be right you're right the reason this time is different as it relates to this sort of AI oh no you said the magic words yeah I said I think but it actually is different I think..."

"very tangible there was a cool experiment we ran with harsh in this batch we ran product day where we had all of our companies come and do a demo run through of the product on stage other product yeah..."

"tell this AI software engineer to implement dark mode on this website and they showed like a website just regular layout and like fume engineer goes and implements like in CSS and everything like the ..."

"months with GPT 5 and the Next Generation like this is a very Homebrew Computer Club type stuff like we just suddenly had this thing that could happen and next week some other crazy things going to ha..."

"the other thing I remember doing the Bookface live demo I think that feeling was there I remember seeing the demo of retail AI so they were building this voice AI agents and during the demo they did a..."

"to rent apartments yeah but in this batch we're seeing companies add like this AI boom companies are adding like real recurring Revenue by selling software to legit businesses right I mean I think we ..."

"particular is this is not just taking money away from existing software budget so much of this work is replacing labor and so you open up to like labor budgets and so I think like all of that has just..."

"worked with a company called octane which got lots of investor interest and what they're doing is AI sales for it's Salesforce rebuilt if in the AI world and I just think investors did not want to fun..."

"summary we are just getting started that's all the time we have for today but why combinator is actually accepting applications for this summer so if you're thinking about it those questions will help..."