
From Dropout to a16z-Backed - How Daniel Reid Cahn Is Reinventing Mental Health with AI
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This might be the most insane AI founder story you’ll hear all year.
Dropped out of high school.
Met the Queen of England. 👑
Helped pivot Instabase by building a transformer before it was cool.
Now? He’s building a foundation model for the human mind — and raised from a16z, Menlo, and Benchmark.
🎙️ We sat down with Daniel Reid Cahn, cofounder & CEO of Slingshot AI, to unpack how he’s using AI to reinvent mental health — without replacing human therapists.
🔍 What we cover:
- Why the future of therapy isn’t GPT wrappers — it's foundation models for psychology
- How Daniel raised millions pre-PMF from top-tier VCs
- Why LLMs are perfectly suited (and dangerously close) to handling our deepest thoughts
- What it really takes to hire top-tier AI and psych talent
- Building a bi-continental company across the US & UK from Day 1
- Why AI therapy could compete with psychedelics — and what keeps Daniel up at night
- The truth about defensibility in AI today: data, distribution… or something else?
💡 Plus:
His founder playbook, ethical design principles, investor tactics, and what he’d do if launching from scratch today.
This is not your average AI story.
It’s raw, smart, and brutally honest.
🎧 Listen now
🔁 Repost if it makes you think. Trust me — this one will.