Emir Karabeg, co-founder of Sim, shares the journey of building a visual, end-to-end platform for AI agents. He discusses their pivot from a failed idea, their explosive open-source growth strategy, the philosophy of building an AI-native workflow tool, and the operational culture that took them from a YC batch to 60,000 developers.
Founders Alex and Teddy of Magic Patterns discuss their journey from numerous pivots to building a profitable, $1M ARR AI design tool with a two-person team. They share insights on finding product-market fit by focusing on customer obsession, the technical details of their prompt-to-prototype platform, and their experience in YC.
Tanay Tandon, co-founder and CEO of Commure, discusses his journey from building a medical device in college to creating an AI operating system for healthcare. He covers the pivot from hardware to software, the power of LLMs in automating revenue cycle and clinical documentation, and his vision for a future where AI liberates physicians from administrative burdens and fundamentally reshapes patient care.
Co-founders Albert Gozzi and Santiago Perez De Rosso of Aleph discuss their journey building an AI-native FP&A platform. They share insights on their first-principles approach of meeting finance teams in spreadsheets, achieving rapid time-to-value, and the early challenges of building a horizontal product. The conversation covers their YC experience, scaling to a $29M Series B, and their vision for the future of finance powered by pragmatic, accuracy-focused AI.
Mukhund and Madhav Jha, co-founders of Emergent, detail their journey of building an AI-powered app builder that reached $15M ARR in three months. They discuss their pivot from enterprise agents, the multi-agent architecture that enables production-ready apps, and their vision for a future with a 'billion builders'.
In a YC interview, RevenueCat co-founders Jacob Eiting and Miguel Carranza discuss their journey from experiencing the pain of in-app purchases to building a critical piece of infrastructure for the mobile economy. They cover their early-stage conviction, the keys to selling to developers, and the operational and personal lessons learned while scaling to a globally distributed team.