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[Ollie Forsyth @ollieforsyth]

The way we design and build is changing, and so are how companies help builders create.

@Webflow is one of those companies.

It's shifting from a website design platform to a fully agentic marketing platform.

(and we have the details for you)

We just interviewed CEO, @YayLT who shares:

1. Why she thinks the internet is filling up with "garbage": only ~200M of the 1.2B live websites out there are actually real, active businesses.

2. Why AI capability isn't a strategy, and what she thinks the real moat is (taste).

3. How enterprise software pricing is shifting from seats to outcomes.

4. Why AI didn't kill the SDR job, it just changed what the job is.

5. What keeps her up at night running a $4B company through this pace of change.

6. Her line on the "one employee, millions of agents" narrative:

"With AI you only need one employee and then millions of agents and have everything run agentically. Go watch Netflix. We are not there."

Full episode out now. This is a must watch!

Timestamps:
(0:00) Meet Linda Tong
(2:04) The Current State of Building
(2:40) What's Changed for Webflow in the Last 12 Months?
(6:06) Base44 Reaches 10M Users and Lovable Raises $400M
(8:02) How to Support Builders in This Era
(9:18) How Do You Select Which AI Model to Partner With?
(12:00) Is Taste the Next Biggest Moat?
(13:41) Are Agentic Co-Workers Next?
(16:03) Webflow's Current Challenges
(18:46) How to Navigate Human Change
(21:08) The Change of Software Pricing
(25:12) Inside the Webflow CEO Role
(26:32) How Do AI Models Affect Product Roadmaps? (28:35) Where Does AI Go Next Over the Next 6-12 Months?
(32:52) Will Websites Still Be Relevant?
(34:25) Building Trust With Your Fanatical Users
(36:25) How Linda Runs Webflow
(39:14) A Winning Mindset
(41:10) Are We Just 1% of the Way There?
(43:23) Airtable Acquisition
(45:09) Ollie Joining as Linda's Chief of Staff
(47:19) Personal Time Out
(48:20) Board Members
(50:50) Where Does Webflow Go From Here?

Available everywhere you listen to podcasts!

(links below)

[Ollie Forsyth @ollieforsyth]

The ultimate lesson on bundling products

@shishirmehrotra gave me a masterclass on bundling products, and he’s a pro at it.

From Google to Spotify to now @Superhuman, where he’s CEO, he’s seen it from every angle.

In our latest podcast episode, @shishirmehrotra shares:

1. How they came up with the name Superhuman.

2. How to pick the right investors as partners, especially relevant given all the conversation around this right now.

3. The art of bundling products: how to do it, why it works, and why it takes much longer than most people think.

4. The SaaS apocalypse.

5. How to build a great company board, who to hire and why unusual characters, like former bosses, can make fantastic board members.

And much more.

Thanks so much for coming on the show, @shishirmehrotra!

Available everywhere you listen to podcasts.
(link below)

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

It’s Demo Day!

LFG

[Humphrey Huang @humfhuang]

Rejected by @ycombinator.

1st time applying, got top 10%. I’m skeptical how YC determines this, but nevertheless I’ll take it.

Idgaf how much I fail, I’ll pursue startups no matter what until I fucking die. Now it’s up to me to prove that.

YC, I’ll be back 😈

[Junead Khan @junead_kh]

For those getting their @ycombinator and @speedrun rejections, this is for you. I have been rejected from YC three times. After the third time, I realized I was waiting for someone else to tell me I was ready. So I stopped waiting, picked up a camera and bet on myself. It's been a year since, and I now have >20,000 people following my journey on TikTok and Instagram.

Stop waiting. Bet on yourself.

#buildinpublic #founder #yc #startup

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Congrats to @Dkirtley and @Helion_Energy on their $465M Series G at a $15.5B valuation!

Helion is building the world's first commercial fusion power plant, Orion. Their Polaris prototype recently exceeded 150 million degrees Celsius, the first privately funded fusion machine to run on deuterium-tritium fuel. They've already signed a power purchase agreement with Microsoft to deliver 50 megawatts of power for its data centers by 2028.

https://t.co/XLvkkZxAGg

[nico laqua @nico_laqua]

The number one question we got asked during our YC batch by investors was, “why are you doing yc”? We could have raised capital without it very easily. And the answer then was the same as the answer is now, that YC made us a lot more ambitious and made Corgi a much bigger company

[YC Community @theYCcommunity]

Congrats on the launch, @nikolas_keller, @lukaspostulka!

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Walter (@walterindustry) is an AI employee for the manufacturing back office. He logs into the same legacy ERP a factory already runs just like a human would, and takes over the manual work no one ever wanted to do.

Congrats on the launch, @nikolas_keller, @lukaspostulka!

https://t.co/iSEfrEoeqQ

[palak @palak_agarwal6]

life update! i've moved to SF after graduation to lead developer relations @reductoai 💜

after spending the last while in product and working on my own startup, i wanted to go deeper on distribution. and Reducto felt like the perfect place to do that! not only are we building the best agentic document platform out there, but the engineering org is genuinely one of the most impressive i've come across.

not to mention i get to do it with the best team 🫶 @adelwu_ @donaldwu_ @vibhayellamraju @vedantvyas

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

We're excited to announce Peter Steinberger as a speaker at Startup School 2026!

@steipete is the creator of OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that went from a weekend project to the most-starred software repo on GitHub in under 5 months, with 346k+ stars. He's now at OpenAI building the next generation of personal AI agents.

https://t.co/xVr1OXFRLY

[YC Community @theYCcommunity]

@GeorgeJeffersn Congrats!!

[George Jefferson @GeorgeJeffersn]

🚨 Introducing the world's first AI growth team:

[YC Community @theYCcommunity]

50% of orders go to whoever quotes first. Yet industrial distributors hand-copy RFQs into 30-year-old software. Hexa is automating their sales and procurement workflows so they quote faster and win more bids.

Congrats on the launch, @Ishaanx75, @MannPatira, and @AuriNayak!

[YC Community @theYCcommunity]

@BhoomiSinghani 🚀🚀

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I turned up at the YC office this morning to find @ApolloAtomics installing the primary loop autoclave for their nuclear reactor 😬

It’s the new component that means their SMRs will be 80% smaller than traditional designs.

[Browser Use @browser_use]

Introducing: New Browser Infrastructure. ⚡️

Chromium fork. Firecracker fork. Custom Linux kernel.
> 3x cheaper. $0.02/h.
> Unlimited scaling
> Subsecond cold starts
> Most stealth browser infra

Feel the speed. Now live.
Try it now ↓

[YC Community @theYCcommunity]

@gravy_finance ❤️🚀🎾

[Gravy (YC P26) @gravy_finance]

Meet Gravy. Your AI Personal CFO. Backed by YC.

[YC Community @theYCcommunity]

@aryind_ Mega! Huge congrats

[Ary Indarapu @aryind_]

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