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Y Combinator has backed more billion-dollar companies than any other institution in startup history. Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Coinbase, Reddit, OpenAI, and Scale AI all came through its doors before they became household names. When YC releases a framework for how founders should think about building a company, it carries more weight than any business school curriculum or management consultant’s slide deck, because it comes from the organization that has been in the room with more successful founders than anyone else on earth. This week, YC General Partner Diana Hu released a complete playbook for building AI-native companies from the ground up, and every founder building right now needs to read it carefully. YC’s new playbook has eight principles, and together they form the clearest blueprint available for what a company built in 2026 is supposed to look like.Full breakdown in our free newsletter. Link in bio 📩>Follow us (@foundedceo) for more insights straight from the world’s leading founders & CEO’s 🤝