Daniel Marcous) comes to fintech from an unconventional background. Before co-founding April he was the CTO for the Waze product at Google, the social traffic app originally called FreeMap Israel that was acquired by Google in 2013 for $1.3B. Daniel started his career as a data scientist in the Israeli Defense Force and actively gives back to the Israeli Data Science community through involvement with DataHack, DataLearn, and KaggleIL.Listen and learn...
- What Daniel learned at Google and Waze about scaling AI
- Why an Israeli data scientist left Google to start a company automating tax filing for Americans
- Why doing taxes is like finding the best route on a map
- Why continuous tax planning is the future of personal finance
- How to manage consumer data responsibly... and still use it to train AI models
- Why the U.S. tax code is so complicated
- Why ChatGPT will never do your taxes
- When AI will replace CPAs
- Daniel's favorite cocktail
References in this episode...
- Why you shouldn't trust search results from LLMs)
- The April blog)
- Daniel's gallery of home-made cocktails)
- Arvind Jain, Glean CEO, on AI and the Future of Work)
