Year One

Every billion-dollar YC company survived a brutal first year after Demo Day. Year One captures those twelve months as they happen, tracking one founder's make-or-break decision per episode: the pivot that saved the company, the co-founder fight that almost killed it, the fundraising round that closed at 2am on a Thursday. Two hosts (one former YC founder, one startup reporter) sit down with recent batch founders while the wounds are still fresh, then bring in YC partners to dissect what went right, what went wrong, and what the founder couldn't see from inside the fog. If you're an aspiring founder...

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Year One

Episodes (20)

Tuesday Nadia: The Verdict Arrives
Tue Aug 18th Nadia: The Ten Days Before August 28
Tue Aug 11th Nadia: What the Yes or No Actually Bought Her

Year One

Aug 25, 2026
15¼ minutes
14 MB

Nadia has just opened the YC decision email she has been waiting on for weeks, and in this episode you hear the exact moment she finds out if her company’s next year is completely rewritten. The stakes are simple and huge: either she’s in and locked into a YC batch, or she has to rebuild the plan she’s been working toward all summer. You have to hear this one because Nadia reads the verdict out loud, processes it in real time, and immediately loops in her cofounder before she even lets herself react. From there...

Year One

Nadia: The Verdict Arrives

Year One

00:00 -15:17