Nancy Xu
CEO & Founder, Moonhub AI. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Nancy Xu is an AI investor and the founder and CEO of Moonhub AI. Her company operates an AI recruiting platform designed to streamline hiring and expand candidate diversity.
1shows
1appearances
14statements
3resolved
1supported
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33%fully supported
Everything Nancy Xu said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Vertical AI applications offer startups the best long-term competitive moats
“Vertical applications give you the best chance at creating a longer term competitive mode”
High GitHub star counts for AI projects mostly reflect unmonetizable hobbyist interest
“There are definitely some that have, you know, tens of thousands of stars on GitHub. But if you look at the use, where those stars are coming from, it's mostly hobbyists, and I'm sure you can monetize hobbyists and sort of grow from there. But I think it is li…”
Moonhub clients report 80% of candidates are unique to the platform
“When they use Moonhub, they tell us, hey, you know, you've been able to show me, like, 80% of the candidates that I found through you I haven't found in any other platform and they tend to be more diverse.”
The best AI startups target easy-to-sell, hard-to-scale services
“A lot of the opportunities for AI startups is to find something that is traditionally very difficult to scale, but very easy to sell. And then you try to scale it with AI.”
Index Ventures sets up individual mini-funds for founders like Dylan Field
“So at a couple of years, you know, ago, Mike, Mike was like, oh, you should definitely think about index has this thing called they make funds for people basically like individual funds. So I think like, for example, Dylan at Figma also has one of these funds …”
Major LLM labs are internally building unreleased hybrid retrieval frameworks
“Some of the bigger LLM companies I've talked to are building this internally right now. It's just not released yet.”
Moonhub was used by Anthropic and Inflection as pre-launch clients
“Before we launched, we worked with about a hundred companies helping them hire and scale their teams. So some of our sort of early customers pre-launch were companies like Inflection, Anthropic, Sandbox, U.com public companies out there as well as some early s…”
AI will enable non-experts to execute traditional expert workflows
“I think the real power of AI for In, in the next one or two years is enabling these non-experts to be able to participate in the workflows that traditionally experts will do.”
Moonhub AI will likely handle all five recruiting stages by mid-2024
“Today, you know, the AI can't do all five stages of the process I mentioned to you. It might do stage one, stage two, We'll probably get to stage five by mid next year, but in the interim, you have a human who's actually helping you with all those other stages…”
Moonhub operates without internal recruiters by utilizing its own AI platform
“We actually dog food our own products, so we don't have, like, a specific internal recruiting team.”
Data confirms most US machine learning engineers live in the Bay Area
“Our team has mapped out where all the ML engineers in the US are, and it turns out the majority of them are in the Bay Area”
The prompt engineer title jumped to roughly 1,000 SF workers in 2023
“If you look at the data, it's, like, basically until twenty-twenty-three, no one called themselves a prompt engineer, and then twenty-twenty-three, all of a sudden, a thousand people in SF are now a prompt engineer”
Moonhub indexes data on one billion people across the public web
“We index about one billion people's data across the public web.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Nancy's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 MADLEDGER | CEO & Founder, Moonhub AI | 1 | 14 | 33% 1/3 | full record on the MAD Podcast → |