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YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours

Every founder faces moments where they’re not sure what to do next — such as how to go to market with AI products, when to pivot, and who/when to hire. In this episode of Office Hours, YC partners Pete Koomen, Brad Flora, Nicolas Dessaigne, and Gustaf Alströmer answer real questions from founders and share stories about how great teams build conviction, learn faster, and make better decisions as they grow.

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  The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide

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  From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn

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  The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were "Impossible" Until Now

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  Cursor Head of Design Reviews Startup Websites

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  Inside The Startup Launching AI Into Space

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  How To Recruit The Best Engineers And Sales Reps

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  From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups

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  Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution

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  What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs

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  How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out

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  The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device

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  Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions

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  Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of …

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  Fintech 3.0: Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto

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  Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era