Pioneer Podcast

Pioneer Podcast

Audio files for the ambitious outsiders.

Episodes

February 16, 2021 50 mins
Courtney Hohne, Chief Storyteller at X, the Moonshot Factory, joins Daniel Gross to discuss the early days of Waymo and Loon, the challenges of commercializing carbon-neutral fuel from sea water and what it would look like to pitch and produce self-replicating nanobots at X.
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Chris Dixon is a general partner at a16z and former cofounder of SiteAdvisors and Hunch. In this episode, he chats with Daniel Gross about the future of AI, the fundamentals of blockchain, the likelihood of aliens and cults that beget industries.
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Courtland joins Pioneers for an AMA, answering questions on topics ranging from community-building, to motivation, to common first-time founder mistakes and more.

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