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The Y Combinator Blueprint: Sift's AI Fraud Prevention

Code Story podcast episode featuring Jason Tan of Sift, exploring how he leveraged Y Combinator to build an AI-powered fraud prevention company focused on digital trust and safety. The episode covers Tan's journey from early programming interests and stints at Seattle startups like Zillow to founding Sift in San Francisco in 2011.

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Summary

Code Story podcast episode featuring Jason Tan of Sift, exploring how he leveraged Y Combinator to build an AI-powered fraud prevention company focused on digital trust and safety. The episode covers Tan's journey from early programming interests and stints at Seattle startups like Zillow to founding Sift in San Francisco in 2011.

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startup · ai-fraud-prevention · y-combinator · podcast · digital-trust · technical-founders · entrepreneurship

Key entities

Jason Tan (person, 0.99) · Sift (organization, 0.99) · Y Combinator (organization, 0.98) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.9) · Zillow (organization, 0.85) · Optify (organization, 0.75) · University of Washington (organization, 0.85) · San Francisco (location, 0.9) · Seattle (location, 0.85) · AI fraud prevention (concept, 0.95) · digital trust and safety (concept, 0.9) · Bradley Denham (person, 0.8) · Code Story (organization, 0.95)

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transcript · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 11 Aug 2026