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Summation with Auren Hoffman
Summation: non-obvious ideas that move the world. Auren Hoffman hosts leaders across tech, business, markets, and government. Summation is the permanent home for the relentlessly curious. Auren is CEO of NQB8, GP at Flex Capital, Chairman of Dialog; former CEO of SafeGraph and LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP).
Notable Guests
Episodes (284)
Felicis founder Aydin Senkut: why moats are dead and alive
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Nir Eyal on belief, motivation, and the end of suffering
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SecureAuth CEO Geoff Mattson on the coming fraudpocalypse and the death of the p...
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Fmr. Senator Cory Gardner: why the AI race is won on boring infrastructure and h...
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CodeRabbit CEO Harjot Gill on software's new bottleneck and zero to $50m ARR in...
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Moritz Baier-Lentz on why the future of AI runs on video games
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OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji: measuring the greatest technology of ou...
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Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: why AI wins a Nobel before a Pulitzer
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Fifth Wall CEO Brendan Wallace: the data center land grab and the most stable as...
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Striveworks CEO Jim Rebesco on drone swarms, AI for warfighters, and the end of...
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Short-seller Carson Block: a fugitive CEO, Libyan spies, and $50B fraud
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Facet CEO Anders Jones on the biggest heist in finance, how advisors really sell...
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Charles Duhigg on the writing AI can't touch, what GLP-1s really do to your brai...
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SignalFire CEO Chris Farmer on why venture funds now last 20 years and the hirin...
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GTMnow Podcast | Your First VC Meeting Will Be Agent-to-Agent
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Serval CEO Jake Stauch: talent is the only moat left, hiring founders as FDEs, a...
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Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko on why curiosity is AI’s sca...
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Fundrise CEO Ben Miller: VCX, Roaring Kitty's revenge, and AI killing the office
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Six-time CIA Station Chief Ralph Goff on the new doctrine of war
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Glenn Youngkin on governing like a CEO, the AI power crisis, and why every opera...
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Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta on why trades are AI-proof, the trillion-dollar h...
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Eric Ries on why "bad governance" outperforms, the case against shareholder prim...
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Fmr. German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on NATO, nuclear energy,...
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Fmr Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on chips, China, and lessons from Andy Grove
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Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim on mathematical superintelligence, why math is harder...
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Retired 4-star General John Allen on Iran, AI hyperwar, and Taiwan’s future
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Adrian Aoun on healthcare as a product, Apple's AI problem, and why you should h...
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Tod Sacerdoti (Flex GP and Pipedream CEO) on seed at scale and SaaS mispricing
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Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on bowling alone, AI bots, and why the heartland is hap...
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Lt. General Mike Fenzel (Ret.) on bad data, bad experts, and why we can’t exit w...
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Martin Shkreli on prison, beating Bloomberg, and being hated
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Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth - The $30 Trillion Knowledge Work Market, Training...
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Chapter CEO Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz - medicare complexity, $100B fraud and how tec...
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Industry Ventures Founder Hans Swildens - how secondaries became the dominant pa...
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Economist Glenn Hubbard - The Fed’s dilemma, AI productivity, and why experts lo...
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Rembrand CEO Omar Tawakol - why product placement works better than traditional...
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We the Builders Podcast l From LiveRamp ($RAMP) to NQB8: Auren Hoffman’s Founder...
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FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller - why pricing data businesses trade at 30x EBIT de...
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Wispr Flow CEO Tanay Kothari - voice AI deep dive
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The LM Brief: India as the Next Epicenter of AI?
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YipitData CEO Vin Vacanti - why hedge funds dominate data usage (and corporation...
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The LM Brief: The Syntax Illusion
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Patrick McGee - author of Apple in China – how Apple and China built each other
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Dave Morin, Offline Ventures - how venture studios work
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The LM Brief: Why Many AI Projects Fail
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Azeem Azhar of Exponential View - AI, hyperscalers, reshaping US GDP
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The LM Brief: Love Beats Hate
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Bolt.new CEO Eric Simons — one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world
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The LM Brief: The DaaS Renewal Landscape
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