Pioneer, every mention

#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success Apr 16, 2019 · 17 mentions

• ▶ 1:09 Shane Parrish On the show today is Daniel Gross, former partner at Y Combinator, AI expert, now founder and CEO of Pioneer.
• ▶ 3:30 Daniel Gross Um, and ultimately what Pioneer is kind of trying to do is provide that almost drug, um, 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 14:22 Daniel Gross And then the weird thing about Pioneer is we are literally trying to operationalize that metric
• ▶ 14:32 Shane Parrish Talk to me a little bit about pioneer. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 20:21 Daniel Gross You know, you, you don't even really need pioneer.
• ▶ 32:14 Daniel Gross I mean, I happen to believe that pioneer, uh, obviously, I mean, given what I'm doing is the, is the most important thing to work on that kind of meta problem of creating more, more geniuses with, with kind of cheap interventions.
• ▶ 50:08 Daniel Gross Um, you know, just kind of like I view Pioneer as kind of working on the meta problem to curing cancer or global warming or, uh, you know, say, civil unrest in the world.
• ▶ 59:27 Daniel Gross It's, I'm now realizing this as I'm talking to you, but it's very evident in pioneer itself is in Ender's game.
• ▶ 1:15:38 Daniel Gross I mean, pioneers, I think literally equal parts kind of software and psychology in terms of, you know, the different psychometric profiles we use to select people and,
• ▶ 1:20:40 Daniel Gross And my hope is that with Pioneer, um, I can do that, like, both in the style of work, you know, I, I, you know, we're, we hire people that are fun to work with, and, um, I end up working on things that provide me flow, as well as, you…
• ▶ 1:24:19 Daniel Gross Uh, it's the psychological motivation of kind of playing the game that is pioneer over and over because that kickstarts you into a positive feedback loop. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:25:18 Daniel Gross Um, so, um, Pioneer is, um, uh, the thing I'm working on that may be worth checking out. 2 times in the scene