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How to Get Booked on Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Y Combinator Startup Podcast is a technology podcast with 318 episodes. Your strongest route into Y Combinator Startup Podcast starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
Y Combinator Startup Podcast is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What Y Combinator Startup Podcast is about
We help founders make something people want. The Y Combinator Podcast is where builders talk about building. From the earliest days of an idea to scaling a company that changes the world, YC partners and founders share real stories, lessons, and tactics from the frontlines.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- a few times a week
- Latest episode
- Aug 13, 2026
- Catalogue
- 318 episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
- Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
- Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed
- How To Design In The Agent Era
- Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-08-23.
3 show-specific steps to pitch Y Combinator Startup Podcast
- 1
Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of Y Combinator Startup Podcast, which publishes a few times a week, currently “Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics”. Listen for how Y frames the conversation, then make your angle fit Y Combinator Startup Podcast.
- 2
Send it to the address Y Combinator Startup Podcast publishes
Y Combinator Startup Podcast's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print Y Combinator Startup Podcast's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for Y Combinator Startup Podcast in your mail app; we never send it. Y Combinator Startup Podcast also publishes a contact page on its own site, at ycombinator.com. That one is public, so you can use it right now with no account at all. Get the address for Y Combinator Startup Podcast. Open the Y Combinator Startup Podcast contact page.
- 3
Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want a specific technical story or a contrarian take: a product you shipped, a hard trade-off you made, or a trend you can explain simply. Open with one sentence on why you fit Y Combinator Startup Podcast and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for Y Combinator Startup Podcast, then grade the draft against Y Combinator Startup Podcast.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. Y Combinator Startup Podcast is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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