The Sunday Times’s tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Daniel Gross, founder of Pioneer, to talk about growing up as an Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem (2:40), applying to Y Combinator (3:40), escaping Army duty (5:40), having his first startup crash right before Demo Day (7:10), building a new product in 48 hours (8:55), selling to Apple (10:20), finding the next generation of geniuses (11:15), creating a “digital Ivy League” (13:10), using a leaderboard (14:55), how he gets the word out (16:25), the gamification of finding genius (20:00), why money is not the most important factor (23:10), how to win the Pioneer game (23:55), the importance of accountability (27:30), why he brings people to Silicon Valley (29:00), addressing the tech industry’s “sameness” problem (31:50), using video game mechanics to aid productivity (38:40), fighting the dumbing down of tech (42:40), and the intimidating “bigness” of big ideas (45:40).
AstroForge's Matt Gialich: "We can eradicate mining on earth”
SciFi Foods' Joshua March: "Most 'clean meat' startups won't be successful"
Lumo's Devon Wright: "Helping farmers save water"
Trevor Neilson: “I helped start Extinction Rebellion. Here is why they are getting it wrong”
Securiti’s Rehan Jalil: “Where there’s chaos, there’s opportunity”
UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “With AI, we’re making the same mistakes that we did with social media”
Sightful's Tamir Berliner and Tomer Kahan: "The world's first augmented reality laptop"
Outreach’s Manny Medina: “Most founders give up too soon”
Runway’s Cristobal Valenzuela: “Pushing AI-generated film past the ’mom threshold’”
Stability.ai's Emad Mostaque: "We're all going to die - but not from AI"
Loyal's Celine Halioua: "The first life extension drug for dogs"
Andreessen Horowitz's Vijay Pande: "AI doctors"
SuperFocus.ai's Stephen Hsu: “AI study buddies”
Precision Neuroscience's Ben Rapoport: "Write an email with your thoughts"
Fixie.ai's Matt Welsh: "The 12-cent engineer"
Interlude: Back next week
Rippling’s Parker Conrad: “We raised $500m in one day to survive the SVB collapse”
Primer’s Sean Gourley: “AI is the biggest change to war since the internal combustion engine”
Earth’s Tom Harries: “Turning people into soil”
UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell: “ChatGPT is a wake-up call”
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