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At YC, we're seeing more and more people in their 20s taking the leap and starting their own companies.In this episode, Dalton & Michael share their advice on how young founders can get a head start and hit the ground running in their startup journey.

When it comes to building a successful startup, focus is critical. But how do you know if you're spending time on the right things? In this episode, Dalton and Michael share advice for how to break through the noise and zero in on solving the problems that matter most for your business.

How should you navigate your 20s - the most important decade in your life? For many people, it's an age with fewer responsibilities: no kids, no mortgage, no restrictions. And so it's actually the best possible time to go hardcore: to take risks, invest in yourself, and surround yourself with like-minded people.

Thanks to advances in AI, we're currently living through one of the biggest technological shifts in a generation. And things aren't slowing down anytime soon. So now the question is, what should you do about it?

You know what they say, to understand the future, look to the past. Since the early 2000s, Apple and Facebook (now Meta) have been battling over who controls the consumer market.

Thanks to a recent talk by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and a follow up essay by Paul Graham, the concept of 'founder mode' is everywhere. But what does it mean and who does it really apply to?

As Dalton & Michael have discussed before, ZIRP stands for 'Zero Interest Rate Policy' which refers to when the Federal Reserve sets interest rates around 0% and banks were able to borrow money for almost nothing.

Space travel, the Internet, cryptocurrency — these huge leaps in technology were fueled at least in some part by distrust and fear of others.