Introduction

Daniel Gross is a prolific angel investor and entrepreneur. Daniel previously co-founded Cue, a search engine that was acquired by Apple. He then ran AI and search projects at Apple for four years, was a partner at Y Combinator, and founded the quantitative startup accelerator Pioneer, all while angel investing early in iconic startups like Figma, Uber, and Rippling along the way.

Our conversation covered Daniel’s thoughts on depth vs. breadth of expertise, evaluating market vs. founder, and how he thinks about the opportunities in AI.

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Moth Minds is a podcast where ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Molly Mielke⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Moth Fund⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ interviews high-agency humans.