Daniel Darling
@DanielDarling
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Leading pre-seed rounds @focal_vc: building a bridge for international investors to next gen US + Canadian software startups. 🎙️ Creator of 5 Year Frontier Pod
San Francisco / Hybrid
Joined November 2008
Control voice input, and you control everything. Voice is becoming the most powerful UI for AI—not just as an input, but as an interactive command center. 1.Voice lets AI guide us—not just capture data, but structure it, prompt us for clarity, and ensure consistency at scale.
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Great to have partners like Koda Capital in focal's corner. A firm cutting its own unique path to become one of Australia's largest and most respected wealth advisors. I've had many conversations about AI, venture capital, and the US with the team and their clients over the
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Have had a lot of LP meetings recently and a consistent theme across large institutional LPs is that very few have continued with their blue-chip relationships (outside of Index). "Those funds are no longer hard to access". Looking to concentrate in the next generation. The new
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Mercor (@mercor_ai) scaled from $1-500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, making us the fastest growing company of all time. Our growth is accelerating. We averaged 11% week over week growth in July, 18% WoW growth in August, and 19% WoW growth in September. One trend
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While the spotlight is on AI, Open Source is quietly collapsing the IT stack. Business owners 2X profit margins AND set their orgs up for advanced automation. Nobody gets this better than @michaelassraf. Today he launched OpenMSP —a breakthrough platform helping MSPs double
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Find and compare managed service providers (MSPs) and technology vendors. Discover open-source alternatives and reduce your vendor costs.
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So many leaders and companies are just starting to realize this. Stacked PRs, merge queues, and AI code review will be the standard for every fast-moving company. Thanks again for having me on the show!
As AI coding tears aways ($500M ARR from Cursor, $3B acq. of Windsurf) the next developer unlock is not more code, but agentic quality control at scale. Code review is THE choke point for the 100X AI developer. @MerrillLutsky got this before anyone and has built @withgraphite
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My 5 Year Outlook on AI Coding after an awesome conversation with @MerrillLutsky : 1. Agent-Led Code Generation By Default We know its coming; the move from AI-assisted coding to AI-led. 2. The Multi-Disciplinary Developer The shift to higher order tasks has developers owning
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The 100X Engineer, Vibe Coding Bottlenecks, Agents As Evaluators, AI Roll-ups
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Tune into our chat to hear where the future of software development is heading. It is a glimpse into the future of human X AI collaboration. 5YF #38: The 100X Engineer, Vibe Coding Bottlenecks, Agents As Evaluators, AI Roll-ups, And The Future Of Software Creation w/ Graphite
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Podcast Episode · 5 Year Frontier · 10/06/2025 · 26m
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As AI coding tears aways ($500M ARR from Cursor, $3B acq. of Windsurf) the next developer unlock is not more code, but agentic quality control at scale. Code review is THE choke point for the 100X AI developer. @MerrillLutsky got this before anyone and has built @withgraphite
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Coming 🔥out of stealth. Proud to be partnered up from day one. Congrats team!
Today we launch @coworkerapp after years developing our OM1 memory architecture. We've raised $13M to bring to market AI that maintains context across complex organizational environments. To our early believers: thank you. The real work begins NOW.
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What an eye opener to chat to @Airconyc CEO @airconstantine in today's release of 5YF #37 Global Energy Race, Creating With Carbon, CO2 As Fuel, Powering Mars, And The Future Of Clean Energy.
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Podcast Episode · 5 Year Frontier · 13/05/2025 · 24m
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Why stop at capturing CO2 when you can use that carbon to create. @AirCoNYC turns CO2 into fuel and rocket propellant -- powering sustainable aviation, remote military refueling stations, and interplanetary rocket travel on Mars.
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Sales Co-Pilots, AI Revenue Intelligence, Procurement Agents, CRO in 2030, and The Future of Selling w/ @Clarihq CEO @00byrne
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Podcast Episode · 5 Year Frontier · 29/04/2025 · 26m
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Xiaomi has unveiled a factory that produces 1 phone per second, has no production employees (just maintenance), operates 24/7, with the lights off. From parts to boxed product.
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So fun to sit down with @surojit, CEO of Ema, to explore the rise of AI employees and the 24/7 agent workforce. Surojit’s built product at the highest levels, heading product at Coinbase, Flipkart, and Google — and now he’s building the infrastructure for the agentic enterprise.
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We have line of sight to companies running 24/7/365 given AI agent workforces. A human employee delivers ~2,000 hours of output a year. An AI agent? 8,760. That’s a 4.4x increase in productivity — per role, per function, per company. Now scale that across the global economy.
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And just like that, something that seemed impossible is now a normal part of life
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