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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Varda’s Delian Asparouhov: “The space gold rush”
Jason Calacanis: Silicon Valley v the media
Shift4's Jared Isaacman: "Commanding the first civilian mission to space"
Cover’s Alexis Rivas: “Lego houses”
Economist Eli Dourado: "City lights on the moon and living past 130"
Neeva's Sridhar Ramaswamy: "We can do better than Google"
Investing in US's Dmitri Mehlhorn: “The business of making Trump a one-term president”
Substack's Chris Best: "We knew we were walking into a firestorm”
Compass Pathways' George Goldsmith: "Medical magic mushrooms"
Tim O'Reilly: "The landlords of the Internet"
Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse: “Replumbing the financial system”
Stanford Internet Observatory’s Renee Diresta: “Sharpies, CIA supercomputers and human antennas”
Plenty's Nate Storey: "Kale outta Compton"
Ruben Harris: "A backwards version of the Wu-Tang clan”
Mmhmm's Phil Libin: "Hospital clowns to investment bankers”
Avalanche Insights' Michiah Prull: “Measuring oomph”
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