Y Combinator YouTube Stats

@ycombinator · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Y Combinator channel overview

Y Combinator (@ycombinator) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2013. It has 2.4M subscribers and 117M total views across 938 videos, an average of 125K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 66K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 78K views. Over the last 12 months, Y Combinator published 42 videos (26% Shorts), and 3 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Y Combinator make?

Returbe estimates Y Combinator's YouTube ad revenue at $3.6K – $15K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.8 to $15.19, typically $7.6, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $7.6K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Y Combinator publishes about 21.7 videos a month. Based on its last 42 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (40% of uploads), usually around 07:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Y Combinator's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Y Combinator's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew4.1M views · Sep 8, 202652.9× typical views
• Why The Harness Matters More Than The Model | YC Paper Club431K views · Oct 8, 20265.6× typical views
• Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders367K views · Sep 8, 20264.7× typical views
• The State of Startups in 2026215K views · Oct 8, 20262.8× typical views
• Own Your Intelligence68K views · Oct 28, 20262.3× typical views
• LLMs That Write Well55K views · Oct 29, 20261.9× typical views
• The New Full-Stack Designer133K views · Oct 27, 20261.7× typical views
• Open Models Change The Economics of AI124K views · Sep 8, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Y Combinator's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How To Build The Future: Paul Graham & Amjad Masad1.9K views · Nov 7, 20261× typical views
• Bringing Supersonic Flight To The People11K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• 10 Habits PhDs Must Unlearn To Build a Startup | Startup School41K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• The $1B Company Fixing AI’s Software Bottleneck37K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• Engineers Make Great Founders30K views · Nov 2, 20261× typical views
• What Happens When Everyone Can Build Software96K views · Oct 31, 20261.2× typical views
• AI for the Air-Gapped Economy41K views · Oct 30, 20261.4× typical views
• AI for City Hall23K views · Oct 29, 20260.8× typical views
• LLMs That Write Well55K views · Oct 29, 20261.9× typical views
• Vertical Foundation Models29K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 10K videos from 899 channels in this niche. 11.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.5K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (89K subs, best video 172.7×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.2×), Sprunki Land (39K subs, best video 95.2×), Tech Meets East (21K subs, best video 11.9×), Fun Universe (57K subs, best video 98.3×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 131.3×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Y Combinator or YouTube.