Joseph Moon

Entrepreneurship & building companies.

• Currently CEO at Oxygen Intelligence, the Agentic Data Intelligence Company
• Host of Agentic Data podcast
• Founded Hyperquery, the next-generation data notebook (acquired by Deepnote in 2024). Raised $7M from Khosla Ventures and world-class data angel investors
• Founding partner at QuantCo, a leading Enterprise Machine Learning company. Helped scale from $0-$400M+ in valuation
• First machine learning scientist at Wayfair. Co-founded the Pricing Algorithms Team (now 400+ member analytics organization)

Music.

I studied classical musical composition at Harvard University, where I wrote pieces for piano, string quartets, and the Harvard Woodwind Ensemble. I was also the front-man of various punk rock bands in my teens and 20s.

Selected work:

• Transition (Piano Instrumental)

Writing.

I write essays on entrepreneurship, personal growth, and life philosophy at Emergence by Joseph Moon.

Popular essays:

• The Elo Principle - You cannot measure what you cannot see
• The pitfalls of the goal-driven life - The Pursuit As the Reward
• On Narcissism and Entrepreneurship - Picking the high performers from a jungle of Batesian snakes
• As You Grow, You Have to Say Goodbye to Friends - Because "this ain't made for anybody"

Research.

Former researcher at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

• Publications: 9. Citations: 1000+. H-index: 8. Erdös number: 4
• Published peer-reviewed papers in Science Translational Medicine and Nature
• Built algorithms and software systems for applied machine learning and AI

Education.

Bachelor of Arts in Pure Mathematics from Harvard University