“David & Daniil Liberman — Gonka AI co-creators, ex-Snap product leaders, serial founders featured by NYT, Forbes & Tim Ferriss”
David and Daniil Liberman are serial entrepreneurs and co-creators of Gonka — a decentralized AI compute network that, within months of its August 2025 mainnet launch, scaled past the equivalent of 10,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. In December 2025, Bitfury committed $50M to Gonka as the first investment under its $1B ethical emerging-technologies initiative. Gonka was incubated by Product Science, whose backers include Coatue Management, Slow Ventures, and K5.
The brothers previously sold their AR startup Kernel AR to Snap in 2016, where they served as Directors of Product and helped shape 3D Bitmoji. Their holding company, LibermansCo (~$400M valuation), counts Marc Andreessen, Josh Kushner, and Arielle Zuckerberg among its backers.
They've been featured on The Peter McCormack Show [AI's Five Kings and Their Eight Billion Tenants], The Tim Ferriss Show (The Brothers Who Live One Life), Pod of Jake, and profiled in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Forbes, WIRED, Fast Company, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and The Information. Recent stages include Token2049 Singapore and the Dubai AI Forum.
They bring a rare combination: deep technical credibility, a contrarian thesis on AI's future, and the kind of vivid, philosophical conversation that turns into evergreen episodes.
As demand for GPUs explodes, startups and nations are fighting for access to the compute power that drives AI progress.
POD OF JAKE · Episode
Product Science, a startup co-founded by four siblings, has raised $18 million to develop software for testing mobile app performance.
Two tech-minded brothers are testing the market on themselves.
Earlier this year I wrote about the idea of investing directly in people versus companies—something my venture capital firm, Slow Ventures, has started doing. For us, this is a form of real VC, as opposed to the plug-and-play, low-margin growth equity that is rapidly becoming as boring as it ...
