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).
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Faeth's Anand Parikh: "Nutrition as the fourth pillar of cancer care"
Overemployed’s Isaac P: “The days of the employee are dead”
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Investor and author Matthew Ball: "The metaverse's time is nigh"
Mike Alfred & Zume's Alex Garden on crypto, pizza and the future of humanity
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Shopify's Harley Finkelstein: “There’s room for us and Amazon”
Persefoni’s Kentaro Kawamori: “Capitalism created the climate problem - and will solve it”
Wired’s Steve Levy on Meta and What3words’ founder Chris Sheldrick on mapping the world
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Miss Excel's Kat Norton: "How I made millions doing Tiktok videos - about Microsoft Excel”
Mitra Chem's Vivas Kumar: "Building a US battery champion"
UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid and James Currier of NFX on Musk’s Twitter takeover and the state of social media
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