Daniel Gross

Compute Lead, Meta · 1 appearance on the record.

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Gross co-founded the search engine Cue, directed AI efforts at Apple, and led AI programs as a partner at Y Combinator before launching Pioneer. He co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc., co-authored the book Talent with Tyler Cowen, and serves as Compute Lead at Meta.

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3 predictions · 1 assertion · 6 opinions · 22 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Daniel argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Gross: SpaceX was originally a stunt to land a plant on Mars

“SpaceX, I believe, was conceived as the Green Mars Oasis Project, where the idea was it's a very Los Angeles idea we're gonna go buy a bunch of rockets from the Russians, and we're gonna try to launch a bunch of stuff onto Mars, and we're gonna take a photo of…”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 9:02 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

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What they said33 Episodes1

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Insight

Gross: Corporate cultures emerge directly from underlying tech business models

“So in, in many ways, I think the cultural differences between Google and Apple or Facebook and Apple are just emerging properties of an ads driven business model versus we sell you shrink wrapped, you know, pieces of hardware business model.”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 24:25 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Insight

Gross: Enduring corporate culture is built through scarcity, not early abundance

“It's in many ways in, in scarcity where, where you build culture. It's not in an era of plenty. And one of the most challenging things I think for Google and Facebook's culture is, you know, they really stuck a toothpick into the sand and had a massive oil wel…”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 31:13 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Insight

Gross: Defying short-term capitalism requires strong leadership and financial plenty

“Can organizations break away from the kind of capitalistic imperative? I guess I observed one example of it. But it really requires, I think it requires a very strong leader, like incredibly emotionally strong and A sense of plenty. Like, I don't think this wo…”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 40:28 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Opinion

Gross: Apple's leadership remains resilient because they experienced near-bankruptcy

“I think the whole crew that saw the company nearly go bankrupt has that same sense of like, it's fine if we have to rebuild everything from scratch.”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 42:55 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Insight

Gross: The most important leadership skill is third-person emotional detachment

“Probably the most important thing is the ability to distance your thought patterns and your emotions from your actions... But it's the idea that you can kind of play the game of life in kind of third person as opposed to first. That is incredibly important.”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 44:01 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Insight

Gross: Managers must act as game designers aligning company and employee desires

“Ultimately, you're kind of a game designer as a manager and as a leader, and you want to design the best game that both aligns company incentives and employees desires. And the real way to understand people is kind of through this deeper substrate level where …”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 51:41 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Insight

Gross: Games reinforce tribal bonds because they are non-fatal simulations

“The games are a very interesting way to reinforce tribal bonds because games are simulations, right? So the outcomes are not catastrophic or fatal. If you're losing Quidditch, it's not like, you know, you die. So it's a helpful way to kind of embellish tribal …”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 1:01:56 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Insight

Gross: Major life decisions stem from distinct seed and catalyst moments

“It would not surprise me if the outcome of this research was, there was kind of the seed moment and then the catalyst moment, and those are actually distinct. There could be many months, weeks, or days, or, Would surprise me if there were hours in between.”

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 1:11:46 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Assertion Supported

Gross: SpaceX was originally a stunt to land a plant on Mars

Daniel Gross Apr 16, 2019 ▶ 9:02 #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success	Apr 16, 2019	1h 8m

Daniel Gross

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