Sanjana Friedman

👋 so fun bringing the startup school vision to life 🫡

So incredibly cool

nailed it with the merch <3

@fugitive_druid One fewer humorless scold!

Thinking about how the first time I heard Rock the Casbah I thought they’d sampled Will2K

POWER BANK for YC Startup School 2026

POSTCARD for YC Startup School 2026

I am the first person to whom these thoughts have ever occurred in the history of the universe

@brennenho_ @ycombinator shoutout @JaredRPoblete @eve_bouff !

swag is sick @ycombinator 🔥

susan kare is a total legend. fellow product of philadelphia

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

England out of the world cup...there goes my childlike hope and wonder...

im so upset and frustrated

It’s possible that the only person who wants England to win the WC more than I do is that obese drunk with the chest tattoo who goes to all their games

It's so strange reading people saying that soccer is boring when I feel worn out from the stress of watching the last two England matches. Frankly I would have preferred them to be a bit more boring.

AI isn't just changing the tools designers use. It's changing the way they think, prototype, and build. In this episode of Design Review, YC Head of Design @eve_bouff joins @aaron_epstein to share the AI-first workflow she uses to design products, websites, and events. Using projects like Paxel, @sotazine, and YC Startup School as examples, she explains how coding agents are transforming everything from rapid prototyping and branding to design systems, and why the biggest bottleneck is no longer software. It's imagination. 00:00 - Eve's AI-First Design Workflow 01:27 - Why She Designs With Her Voice 03:44 - Paxel: Spotify Wrapped for Coding Sessions 07:13 - Building Tools for Yourself 11:01 - Turning Coding Transcripts Into Feedback 12:53 - The Story Behind SOTA Zine 16:57 - Designing With Context, Not Prompts 21:07 - How to Get Better AI Design Outputs 23:20 - Building an Interactive Map of San Francisco 25:17 - Behind Startup School's Visual Identity 29:59 - The Future of Design

I don't know, I'm just so uninterested in the endless articles about the end of mass literacy. Something something Walter Ong, associative thinking, that one anecdote about college kids not understanding Bleak House, knowing wink to the (still literate reader), Trump ref...

STATE OF THE ART? You mean the Tiqqun of tech? The Blast of the Singularity? Yes, I think I have heard...

I was optimistic about how fast I could get @RoKhanna's finances parsed. Still working! In the meantime some more preliminary data uploaded to rokhanna.money