# Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"

An episode of [Y Combinator Startup Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1236907421), 28 Jul 2026, 39 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/8c1524bc/podcast/play/123433442/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-28%2F428769142-44100-2-5c82673dfc0a.mp3

In 2005, Sam Altman was a Stanford sophomore in YC’s first batch, building a startup in a little Cambridge office while Paul Graham cooked the founders dinner. Twenty years later, as co-founder & CEO of OpenAI, he closed Startup School 2026 in conversation with YC's Garry Tan — on agents, ambition, and why the ceiling for what a startup can take on has never been higher.

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