Recode Decode: Daniel Gross, partner, Y Combinator

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Y Combinator Partner Daniel Gross talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Casey Newton about why he returned to the startup incubator that gave him his start in Silicon Valley. Gross co-founded the personal search engine Cue, which Apple bought in 2013 for a reported $35 million and integrated into iOS. Hailing from Jerusalem, Israel originally, he says YC is vitally important for bringing new outsider voices into the highly-networked tech industry and explains why it's important to remind those founders that success is a gradual, humbling process. Gross also talks about the promise of continued investment in artificial intelligence, why it's not a bad thing that "AI" has become a buzzword and what worries him about the algorithms on platforms like YouTube and Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.4	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:09.9	You may know me as the director of a zombie movie set in Silicon Valley called Why Zombinator,
0:15.3	but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode.
0:18.7	A podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world
0:22.5	we live in.
0:23.7	You can find more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music,
0:28.4	or wherever you listen to your podcasts or just visit recode.net slash podcast for more.
0:34.8	Today I'm in San Francisco with Casey Newton, the Silicon Valley Editor of the Verge and a host
0:40.0	of an upcoming podcast Converge. We have Casey joining me for several special episodes of
0:46.0	Recode Decode this month because this Converge is coming, right? Can you go into it just a little
0:51.6	bit? Yeah, absolutely. If you like Cara's podcast, I think you might like Converge as well.
0:57.1	The Verge has never done an interview show. The Verge were fascinated by Silicon Valley,
1:02.4	were fascinated by the people here and the products they make. Where did they come from?
1:07.0	How do they see the world? Some of the conversations that I have in my reporting life for me are more
1:12.5	fun to do than the articles I wind up writing. I thought if I could bring those conversations to
1:17.2	more people, we could have a really fun show. It's coming together quickly and we can't wait to
1:21.4	share it with you. All right, but are you basically trying to steal my thunder? This is what's happening
1:26.0	here? Here's how I've always seen it. You put tell, put you up to it. There's always a healthy
1:32.3	rivalry between us, Vox Media Brands. I love your podcast. When I listen to it, you seem
1:39.7	the most fascinated by money and power. I think that's what gets you going is money and power.
1:44.0	And I love listening to money and power. My perspective in what I'm interested in day to day is
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