Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Y Combinator
3 episodes
What Happens When Everyone Can Build Software
- Paul Copplestone says Supabase is now a default database inside Claude Code and Codex, with about 13m sign-ups as builders outside traditional engineering join.
- Paul Copplestone predicts enterprises will increasingly demand to inspect source code before adopting a vendor, favoring open platforms that agents and buyers can verify.
30 Oct · 49 min
The New Full-Stack Designer
- Marvin Schwaibold, who leads Shopify's product design studio, says designers now act like editors, curating AI output because AI can write code but cannot judge what looks good.
- Schwaibold says Shopify leadership decided last year that the company was entering a new era that needed design, and that prototypes persuade far better than product requirement documents.
28 Oct · 1 h 6 min
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street
- Model ML says it signed as many contracts in the last seven days as in all of Q4, which Chaz Englander cites as proof AI products deliver tangible value.
- Model ML's agentic workspace connects analysts' files, email, CRM and data vendors, and turns earnings summaries into slides that are 90 to 95 percent finished.
31 Jul 2025 · 46 min