YC partners discuss go-to-market strategies for AI in legacy industries, balancing growth with defensibility, knowing when to pivot even with traction, tackling hard technical problems, and making key hiring and open-source decisions.
Co-founders Aaron Wang and John Rytel discuss Alex, their AI recruiting partner that automates interviews and administrative tasks. They cover how AI is fixing the broken hiring market, the technical challenges of building conversational agents, and their vision for a future where AI supercharges, rather than replaces, human recruiters.