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jared

T2 · manager / operator

YC partner and co-host of The Light Cone; focuses on developer tools, AI infrastructure, and early-stage investing; former founder.

28 calls·21 names·89% bull·last heard 8 days ago·Y Combinator
track recordleaderboard →
hit rate
100%
avg alpha
+4.5pp
scored
1

top calls

best measured alpha vs SPY, then highest conviction · one per company
1st+4.5pp vs SPY
$NVDANvidiaposition

Jared remains long-term buy and hold on Nvidia despite near-term GPU capacity concerns

Nvidia faces GPU capacity overbuild concerns but remains a long-term hold; competition from AMD and TPUs increases compute supply which ultimately benefits AI application layer.

Y Combinator2025-12episode →
2ndhigh conviction
$SUPABASESupabaseposition

Supabase sees database demand explosion as AI agents choose it for best documentation

AI agents are autonomously selecting Supabase as the default Postgres database because its documentation is the most agent-friendly, driving explosive demand from vibe-coding humans and their agent swarms.

Y Combinator2026-02episode →
3rdhigh conviction
$RESENDResendposition

Resend wins agent-driven distribution by optimizing docs for LLM consumption

Resend became a top-3 customer acquisition channel via ChatGPT recommendations after deliberately restructuring its knowledge base with structured, code-rich, agent-parseable documentation, leaving legacy competitors like SendGrid behind.

Y Combinator2026-02episode →

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  • $ICARUS

recurring themes

  • AI Infrastructure2
  • AI Bubble / Capex Debate1
  • Developer Tools1
  • Energy & Power Generation1
  • AI Economics & Business Models1
28 total
$NOX-METAL
Nox Metal
MEDjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Nox Metal rebuilding US metal supply chain for defense tech at software growth rates
Nox Metal is revitalizing US metal manufacturing in Detroit to serve new defense tech startups that need faster supply chains than legacy providers can deliver, achieving software-like growth rates.
"Nox Metals is like rebuilding America's metal supply chain. And they're doing it in in the heartland of America in in in Detroit where there's all these like empty factories that…"
8:28
$PHYSICAL-INTELLIGENCE
Physical Intelligence
HIGHjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
All YC robotics companies fine-tuning Physical Intelligence models, not using out-of-box
Physical Intelligence's robotics foundation models serve as a starting point, but every YC robotics company must fine-tune them on proprietary data for their specific vertical to achieve reliable real-world performance.
"My understanding is that all the YC companies that are using physical intelligence as models to deploy robotics, they're all fine-tuning the PI models. I don't think any of them a…"
28:34
$NVDA
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Nvidia
MEDjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Nvidia GPU prices appreciating as architectures shift to lower precision
Nvidia A100/H100 GPU hourly costs are rising due to extreme demand, while each architecture generation reduces floating-point precision (FP32→FP8) because LLM workloads don't need full precision, enabling alternatives like ternary compute.
"GPUs from Nvidia let's say like a A100 GPU per hour is actually appreciating in cost which is unusual in the past when you get a A100 by now sort of old. ... The price is going up…"
10:08
$LAMB-LABS
Lamb Labs
MEDjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Lamb Labs developing new compute processors as Nvidia alternative amid precision scaling trend
As Nvidia architectures push to lower precision (FP32→FP8), Lamb Labs is building custom processors exploiting the insight that LLMs don't need full floating-point precision, creating a new hardware niche.
"There's this company that Tyler worked with called Lamb Labs that's building new processors for compute... it turns out that the LLM architecture doesn't need the full precision f…"
11:00
$EXOSAT
Exosat
MEDjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Exosat building sovereign Starlink alternative in YC summer 2026 batch
SpaceX's success inspired a wave of space startups; Exosat targets sovereign satellite internet demand, reflecting a broader space stack buildout including orbital solar and space data centers.
"There's been companies uh in in the current batch in summer 26. This is company that we work with called Exosat that's trying to build basically a sovereign Starlink solution."
5:45
$BOT
Bot
MEDjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Bot pioneering ternary compute hardware to exploit LLM low-precision requirements
Bot is designing custom hardware using ternary (3-state) representation instead of binary, capitalizing on the trend that each Nvidia generation reduces precision (FP32→FP16→FP8) because neural nets don't need full floating-point math.
"There's another one that I'm working on this batch called bot that is trying to build basically new custom hardware architecture that's using turnary representation for models bec…"
11:25
$NOX-METAL
Nox Metal
HIGHjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Nox Metal rebuilding US metal supply chain in Detroit at software-like growth rates
Nox Metal is revitalizing hollowed-out US metal manufacturing in Detroit to serve new defense tech startups that need speed and responsiveness legacy suppliers cannot provide, achieving software-style revenue growth.
"Nox Metals is like rebuilding America's metal supply chain. And they're doing it in in the heartland of America in in in Detroit where there's all these like empty factories that…"
8:30
$NVDA
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Nvidia
HIGHjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Nvidia GPU pricing power persists as A100 prices appreciate amid structural supply shortage
A100 GPU hourly costs are appreciating rather than depreciating due to insatiable AI compute demand exceeding supply, signaling sustained pricing power and a multi-year data center buildout cycle.
"GPUs from Nvidia let's say like a A100 GPU per hour is actually appreciating in cost which is unusual in the past when you get a A100 by now sort of old. The price is going up bec…"
10:08
$NINE-MOTHERS
Nine Mothers
HIGHjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Nine Mothers anti-drone turret protects special forces with CV-guided shotgun system
Nine Mothers' computer-vision-guided shotgun turret addresses an existential DoD need: protecting scarce elite special forces from commodity drone attacks deep behind enemy lines, already purchased by special forces.
"Nine Mothers anti-drone defense. So, it's basically a shotgun turret with CV. Uh, but it's actually almost the only way that you could protect special forces uh, deep behind enemy…"
6:50
$ULTRA
Ultra
HIGHjared·Y Combinator·8 days ago·The State of Startups in 2026
Ultra achieves box-packing mastery by fine-tuning PI models on thousands of hours of proprietary footage
All YC robotics companies fine-tune Physical Intelligence base models; Ultra's thousands of hours of box-packing video creates a defensible data moat for warehouse automation.
"You start with the PI model, but then they have like thousands of hours of footage of like putting things in boxes that makes it really good at putting things in boxes."
28:38
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AI Bubble / Capex Debatetailwind
AI compute glut mirrors telecom bubble creating opportunity for application layer startups
Massive GPU overbuild creates cheap compute abundance like 1990s fiber glut enabled YouTube; startups are the YouTube equivalent benefiting from infrastructure overinvestment by incumbents.
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Developer Toolstailwind
Dev tool go-to-market shifts from human developers to AI agents as primary buyers
The addressable market for dev tools expands from ~20M human developers to hundreds of millions of 'vibe coders' plus their agent swarms; winning requires optimizing documentation (LLM.txt, structured code snippets) for agent consumption, not human readability.
8
AI Infrastructuretailwind
Space-based data centers and fusion energy emerge as solutions to terrestrial power and land constraints
Regulatory barriers (CEQA), power shortages, and land scarcity force AI infrastructure into orbit; space fusion (Zephyr) and space data centers (Star Cloud, Google, Elon) form a new infrastructure stack.
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Energy & Power Generationtailwind
Jet engine supply chain and fusion race to power AI data centers as terrestrial constraints bind
Boom Supersonic repurposes jet engines for data center power; Helion pursues fusion; Zephyr Fusion targets space-based fusion; 2-3 year lead times for power equipment create structural energy bottleneck for AI buildout.
8
AI Economics & Business Modelstailwind
Capital as moat and revenue-per-employee efficiency define new AI-native scaling playbook
Harvey locks up VC capital to block competitors; Gamma achieves $100M ARR with 50 people; post-Series A hiring remains robust as customer expectations rise faster than AI productivity gains.
8
AI Infrastructuretailwind
Value accrues to opinionated vertical harnesses on top of general models
General-purpose models are commodities; durable value lies in domain-specific 'harnesses' that imbue models with expert knowledge, taste, and workflows — as Anthropic did for coding with Claude Code, and Ploy is doing for marketing.
7
AI Coding Agentstailwind
Vibe coding becomes major category with Replit and Emergents leading but production readiness remains limited
AI coding tools exploded as a category in 2025 but cannot yet ship 100% production code; the behavior of multi-model arbitration (Claude, Gemini, GPT-4) is becoming standard for developers and startups alike.
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Enterprise AI Adoptionheadwind
Enterprise AI failure rate reflects organizational inertia not technology limits slowing societal absorption
90% enterprise AI project failure stems from 90% of enterprises not knowing IT; this organizational drag acts as a brake on fast takeoff, giving society time to adapt to log-linear scaling improvements.