YC Startup School
2026
Y Combinator's Startup School for technical builders, two days at the Chase Center in San Francisco on July 25 and 26, 2026. Entry was by application, more than 6,000 people came, and the speakers included Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Patrick Collison, Jeff Dean and Boris Cherny.
The talks ran in the arena itself, on a round stage in the middle of the floor. Students came in on their own pass.
Exa, the search engine built for AI, threw a party on the side.
