Daniel Gross / NFDG

**Daniel Gross** is one half of **NFDG** (with Nat Friedman), an investment partnership with 150+ investments, and the founder of **Pioneer**, an accelerator and talent identification program that discovers ambitious builders anywhere in the world. He is a former Y Combinator Partner and former Director of Machine Learning at Apple, where he worked on Siri and other AI initiatives. TIME named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI.