Imagine AI (YC F25)

Unfortunately I do not have a picture of the event so this is AI generated 🤣 2 Fridays ago we gathered 100+ YC founders with Composio, WorkOS, and Hyperspell (YC F25) at The Landing Residency Lounge. 3 weeks before Demo Day, everyone is shipping, rebuilding, pivoting, stress-eating. Some are sleeping. Most are not. We wanted to give current batch and recent alumni a few hours to step out of sprint mode and actually breathe. The conversations that happened naturally were the best part. Founders from W26, F25, and S25 talking about everything except their runway. Or sometimes exactly their runway. Either way, it felt real (unlike this picture). More of these coming soon. [Created by Imagine AI]

We're hiring our founding Account Executive at Imagine AI (YC F25). This isn't a traditional AE role. You own the entire customer relationship, from first demo to onboarding, adoption, and expansion. Part salesperson, part strategic consultant, part customer success. You're also building the playbook. This is the foundation we hire from as we scale. Who we serve: 30+ companies from Seed to IPO'd. 12 closed since January alone. What we're looking for: -> 3-5+ years B2B SaaS, ideally marketing software or tools sold to GTM leaders -> Early-stage experience where you built process from scratch -> Customer-obsessed with rice farmer mentality In-person SF. Transparent comp modeled after PostHog. Massive inbound pipeline waiting for you from day one. Comment your email below, or if you think someone else is suitable, come and tag them👇

Clad Labs (YC F25) just did an episode on Signal Line, a new podcast from Y Combinator founders. Not the polished corporate jargon. Just two guys who've known each other since middle school talking about what's actually like building a startup. Neo Lee asked Richard Wang and Kevin Le to break down the Clad Labs journey. How they're building the world's first brain rot IDE (yes, you can swipe Tinder while your code generates). In this episode, Richard and Kevin discussed their story and the best advice YC has taught them. They broke down why Clad Labs hired two interns in early stage. How they're skipping impressions entirely and going straight to user acquisition for dev tools. Why having fun is the most important metric for them. Their advice to founders? Just do it. Have an MVP. Sell before you build. Signal Line is where real founders in the batch talking about what's actually working. Link in comments.

Signal Line just dropped. And it's nothing like the usual founder podcast. It is not another "how I raised $50M" interview series. Just real conversations with founders who are still building. Siddhant Paliwal and Janak Sunil broke down the Bear (YC F25) journey. How they're helping companies show up in LLM search results for a market that didn't exist six months ago. Here's what we talked about. Bear missed the YC summer batch. So they kept building and sent 20 emails with traction updates to a partner. On the last day of fall results, they got the interview invite. The work earned it. We broke down why GEO is completely different from SEO. How we live in customer Slack channels fixing bugs in real time. Why Janak takes one full day off per week to stay sane (Sid should try it). This is the podcast we wish existed when we started. Not polished retrospectives. Real founders six weeks from Demo Day sharing what's actually working. Link in comments.

Signal Line, a new podcast from Y Combinator founders. In this episode, we broke down the real journey with Freya (YC S25). Not the highlight reel. The actual decisions, pivots, and breakthroughs. Tunga Bayrak background is unusual for a startup founder. National Math Olympiads. Quantum computing research with Caltech professors. Then straight into YC. But the hard part wasn't the technical work. It was figuring out how to go from pure research to building a company. What changes when you move from theory to execution. How to focus when you're capable of doing anything. We got into all of it in the conversation. Signal Line isn't about finished success stories. It's about the messy middle where most of us actually live. Founders who are in the trenches right now, building and learning in real time. The first episode is live now. Link in comments.

We just launched Signal Line. A podcast for founders who are in it right now. Not the ones with TechCrunch headlines. The ones grinding through the messy middle. How to move fast without breaking what matters. Why some startups hit $30K MRR in 3 months and others die slowly. Signal Line isn't about finished success stories. It's about the decisions you're making this week. The pivots that feel impossible. The breakthroughs that happen at 2am. First three episode just dropped. We're talking to founders who are building, failing, and learning in real time. First episode: We discussed voice AI agent with Tunga Bayrak from Freya AI. Second episode: Siddhant Paliwal and Janak Sunil from Bear shared insight on GEO. Third episode: Kevin Le and Richard Wang told the story of Clad Labs. No highlight reels. Just the real stuff. Link in comments.

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