Summation with Auren Hoffman

Bjorn Lomborg - A Data-Driven Approach to Global Issues

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bjorn Lomborg is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and has authored several bestselling books including "The Skeptical Environment...

Alex Wirth - CEO of Quorum - How AI is Disrupting Lawmaking

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Wirth is the cofounder and CEO of Quorum, a public affairs software platform. In this episode of World of DaaS, Alex and Auren discuss: How AI ...

Bryan Caplan - The Signaling Game in Education & Parenting

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He’s also the author of a number of bestselling books, including The Case Against Educ...

People.ai CEO Oleg Rogynskyy - How AI is Replacing Sales People

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Oleg Rogynskyy is the founder and CEO of People.ai, an ai-powered revenue intelligence platform. He’s also an advisor to the Ministry of Digital Tra...

Alex Tabarrok - Unpacking the Decline of U.S. Economic Dynamism

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the co-author of Marginal Revolution, one of the most popular and long-runnin...

Bright Data CEO Or Lenchner - Why Meta Lost the Web-Scraping Battle

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data, a leading web data collection company.  In this episode of World of DaaS, Auren and Or discuss:Web data freedo...

Daffy CEO Adam Nash - Data and Design in Fintech

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adam is the co-founder & CEO of Daffy, a fintech platform for charitable giving. Prior to Daffy, Adam was CEO of Wealthfront, VP of Product & ...

Jason Bordoff - Shale, Solar, and Global Energy Futures

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Bordoff is an expert on geopolitics, energy security and the clean energy transition. He is the Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy...

Substack CEO Chris Best - Building a New Engine for Culture

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Substack. Prior to Substack, he co founded the messaging service Kik. In this episode of World of DaaS, Chris and ...

Dr. Robert Cialdini - 7 Principles of Influence Explained

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Cialdini is a world renowned psychologist and author. His seminal work, "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion," published in 1984,...

Fundrise CEO Ben Miller: Democratizing Private Investing

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Fundrise, an online investment platform that gives retail investors access to private assets like real estate ...

Shopify President Harley Finkelstein - The Ecommerce Entrepreneur Class

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harley Finkelstein is the President of Shopify ($SHOP), a leading ecommerce platform valued at over $80 billion. Shopify powers over 2 million ecommer...

Brent Beshore - Private Equity for “Boring” Businesses

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Beshore is the founder and CEO of Permanent Equity, a unique private equity firm that buys cash-generating small and mid-sized businesses— wit...

Mark Gerson - Founder of GLG: Better Philanthropy

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Gerson co-founded Gerson Lehrman Group, the world’s largest expert network. He’s also the co-founder and Chairman of United Hatzalah and the ...

Michael Batnick - Common Investing Mistakes

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Batnick is a managing partner and Director of Research at Ritholtz Wealth Management. He’s also the host of the excellent investing and fina...

CB Insights Founder Anand Sanwal - Data Business & AI

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anand Sanwal is the founder of CB Insights, a business analytics platform and global database of intel on technology companies. Anand was CEO of CB In...

Masterworks CEO Scott Lynn - Data-Driven Art Investing

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Lynn is the founder and CEO of Masterworks, the first company to securitize art. Masterworks manages $940 million in art assets and has nearly 9...

Dmitri Alperovitch - The New Cold War

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dmitri Alperovitch is the co-founder and former CTO of Crowdstrike, and he’s currently the chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a national secu...

Groq CEO Jonathan Ross - Next Gen AI Hardware

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Ross is the founder and CEO of Groq, a company that develops high performance microchips purpose built for AI and machine learning. Prior to ...

Greg Isenberg - Startup Studios vs Traditional VC

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Isenberg is the CEO and Founder of Late Checkout Studio, a holding company for online community businesses. Greg has founded three venture-backed...

Breaking Points Host Saagar Enjeti - Anti-Establishment Media

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Saagar is the co-host of the podcast and web series Breaking Points, which has over a million subscribers on Youtube. He was previously a White House ...

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen: Global Shipping and Logistics

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, a unicorn international freight forwarding business. He’s also a Venture Partner at Founders Fund....

Bill Magnuson, CEO of Braze $BRZE : Future of Mobile

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Magnuson is the co-founder and CEO of Braze ($BRZE), a publicly traded customer engagement platform valued at over $5 billion.   In this episod...

Steve Case: AOL, AI & American Innovation

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steve was CEO of AOL during its meteoric rise from 1991 to 2003. He’s also the chairman and CEO of Revolution, which has invested over $1 billion in...

ID.me CEO Blake Hall: Identity & Security

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Blake Hall is the co-founder and CEO of ID.me, a secure digital identity network with over 100 million members.      In this episode of World of D...

Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier: Future of Higher Ed

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Diermeier is the Chancellor of Vanderbilt University. He’s a world-renowned scholar of business management and political science. Before join...

Daniel Lurie, Running for Mayor of San Francisco

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Lurie is currently running for mayor of San Francisco. Prior to running for mayor, he was the founder and CEO of Tipping Point Community, a cha...

Sarah Tavel, Benchmark Capital GP: Selling Work in SaaS

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Tavel is a general partner at Benchmark Capital. She serves on the board of Chainalysis, Hipcamp, Medely, Rekki, and Cambly. On this episode of...

Meb Faber: Controversial Investing Insights

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meb Faber is the co-founder and CIO of Cambria Investment Management, which has over $2B in assets under management. He’s also the host of the excel...

Neil Buddy Shah, Clinton Health CEO: AI, Data & Public Health

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is the CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the former managing director of GiveWell. In this episode of World of DaaS...

RewindAI CEO Dan Siroker: AI Wearables & Fundraising in Public

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Siroker is the co-founder and CEO of Rewind AI. He also co-founded Optimizely, and he was the Director of Analytics at Obama’s first presidentia...

Emil Michael, Fmr Uber CBO: Ridesharing and Picking VCs

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emil Michael was the Chief Business Officer at $UBER during its hyperscale period from 2013 to 2017. He’s currently the CEO of DPCM Capital, and he’...

Austen Allred, CEO of BloomTech: Aligning Education Incentives

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Austen Allred is the founder and CEO of the Bloom Institute of Technology (formerly known as Lambda School), a coding bootcamp that’s helped thousan...

Oren Cass, Director of American Compass: The New Right

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Oren Cass is the founder and executive director of the think tank American Compass, and the author of the book The Once and Future Worker: A Vision fo...

Building and Understanding Data Businesses | Auren Hoffman | Media Empires

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a rebroadcast of Auren's appearance on Media Empires with Erik Torenberg. Go check out  Media Empires for more from the best Yo...

Greg Lukianoff, President of FIRE: Free Speech

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Lukianoff is the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). He’s also a bestselling author of several boo...

SEIU President Mary Kay Henry: Future of US Labor

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Kay Henry is the president of the Service Employees International Union, which represents 2 million people in unions across the US and Canada.In ...

Joe Lonsdale: 8VC GP and Palantir Cofounder

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Lonsdale is a co-founder of a number of amazing companies, including Palantir, Addepar and OpenGov, and he’s a cofounder of the University of Au...

Sam Lessin of SlowVC: The End of Factory-Farmed Unicorns

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Lessin is a GP at Slow Ventures, a former Facebook product manager, and the founder of Drop.io and Fin. He’s also the co-host of an excellent po...

Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan: Navigating Startup Boards

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Halligan is the co-founder, longtime CEO and now executive chair of Hubspot, a full service platform for marketing, sales and customer service. ...

Auren Hoffman: Entity Resolution with Placekey

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a rebroadcast of Auren’s appearance on the MapScaping Podcast. In this episode, Auren and MapScaping host Daniel O’Donohue go dee...

Sam Corcos, Levels CEO: 10x Delegation

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Corcos is the CEO of Levels, an a16z-backed health tech startup. While Levels’ mission is amazing, what really sets the company apart is how Sam...

Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio: The API Economy

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Lawson is the cofounder and CEO of Twilio, a $10 billion public software communications company.Jeff has an incredible founder story. Prior to Tw...

Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs: Future of Open Source

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spencer Kimball is the founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, a $5 billion company that makes the CockroachDB database used by Netflix, Nubank, Shipt, and...

Michael Seibel, Y Combinator Group Partner

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Seibel is a group partner at Y Combinator and the managing director of YC's startup accelerator. He evaluates 1000s of startups a year an...

Ben Horowitz, co-founder of a16z: Venture Capital

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Horowitz is the cofounder and CEO of Andreessen Horowitz, the most influential venture capital firm of the last 20 years. Ben and Andreessen Horow...

Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel: AI

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, a cloud platform that powers some of the biggest names on the internet, like Patreon, Ebay, Netflix ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin: SVB, Lessons from 2008 Financial Crisis & VC

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial columnist for the New York Times, a co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box and the founder and editor of DealBook. He’s ...

Peter Thiel: Science, Society, Stagnation

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Thiel is one of the greatest entrepreneurs and investors of his generation. He was the co-founder and CEO of PayPal, the first investor in Faceb...

Amjad Masad: CEO of Replit: Future of Coding

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amjad Masad is the founder and CEO of Replit, an online coding environment. Amjad and Auren discuss what the rise of AI means for coding, developers,...

Martin Sorrell: S4 & WPP: AdTech, Advertising & AI

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Martin Sorrell is the founder of WPP, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, which he ran for over 30 years. He’s currently the e...

Neil Strauss, Author of "The Game": Growth in the AI Era

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Strauss is a 10x New York Times bestselling author and a renowned journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Es...

Bram Cohen, Founder of BitTorrent and Chia: Decentralization, Data Science & Blockchain

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bram Cohen is the creator of BitTorrent, which revolutionized digital entertainment and has been downloaded over two billion times.Today, Bram is the ...

Bryan Johnson: How to Age in Reverse

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Johnson is the founder of the payments processing company Braintree, which sold to Paypal for $800 million in 2012. He’s also the founder of O...

Sue Gordon, fmr ODNI/NGA/CIA: OSINT, Cybersecurity, War

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sue Gordon is the former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence. She had a 30+ year career with the CIA, as well as serving as Deputy Dire...

Ajit Pai: Innovation, Regulation, GDPR

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ajit Pai is the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, where he served from 2017 to 2021. He’s currently a partner at Searchlight...

Steven Pinker: Human Cognition vs. AI

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Pinker is a linguist, cognitive scientist, and a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard. He’s the author of twelve books, inclu...

Erik Torenberg: Optionality, AI & Elites

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Erik Torenberg was the first employee at Product Hunt, and the founder and chairman of On Deck. He’s currently a partner at Village Global and the f...

Jesse Pujji: Digital Marketing, D2C & Venture Studios

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse is the founder and CEO of Gateway X, a venture studio focused on DTC brands. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Ampush, a digital mark...

Immad Akhund, CEO of Mercury: SVB, Neobanks, and UI

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Immad Akhund is the CEO of Mercury, a bank for startups. He’s also a multi-time founder and a Dual Threat CEO with over 300+ angel investments. Aur...

Prince Turki Al Faisal: Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia & Energy

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud was the head of Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Directorate for 24 years. He also served as the Ambassador of...

Dmitri Alperovitch: Ukraine, Russia, Starlink & Cyber Warfare

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dmitri Alperovitch is the co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike and the founder of Silverado Policy Accelerator. Dmitri and Auren delve into the c...

Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic: AI and Media

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief of Wired and a senior editor at The New Yorker.Nick and Auren discuss ...

Hadi Partovi: Coding, AI & the Future of Learning

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hadi Partovi is the founder and CEO of Code.org. He also founded Tellme Networks and ILike, held leadership roles at Microsoft and Myspace, and angel ...

David Sinclair: Living to 120

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David Sinclair is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the founder of the Sinclair Lab. He’s the author of the bestselling book Lif...

Matt Kaminski, Politico EIC: Future of Media & Speech

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Kaminski is the Editor in Chief of Politico and the founding editor of Politico Europe. Auren and Matt discuss the challenges of restoring trust...

Marissa Mayer: AI Insights and Walmart, Google & Yahoo

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Marissa Mayer was the CEO of Yahoo and the 20th employee at Google, where she held key leadership roles in major Google products including Search, Map...

Tom Tugendhat: UK Minister, OSINT, MI5 & Cybersecurity

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Tugendhat is the UK’s Minister of State for Security and a British Member of Parliament. He was previously the chairman of the Foreign Affairs C...

Jack Abraham of Atomic: Incubators & Startup Studios

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Abraham is the founder of Atomic, a startup studio that has launched several dozen companies including Hims & Hers, Openstore, and Bungalow. ...

Will Manidis: AI, LLMs & Healthcare Data

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Will Manidis is the CEO and founder of ScienceIO, which builds data solutions for health care. He was previously a managing partner at Dorm Room Fund,...

Avlok Kohli, AngelList CEO: AI and Dual Threat CEOs

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Avlok Kohli is the CEO of AngelList and the founder of FastBite and Fairy. Auren and Avlok discuss the underestimated impact of AI and how it could b...

Elad Gil: AI, Angel Investing, Living Forever

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Elad Gil is a prolific angel investor and advisor whose early investments include AirBnb, Coinbase, Pinterest, Stripe, and Square. He’s also the fou...

Johnathan Bi: René Girard & Mimetic Desire

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Johnathan Bi is the host of a fantastic seven-part lecture series on the work of philosopher René Girard. He’s also a member of the founding team a...

Nicole Perlroth: Future of Cybersecurity

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nicole Perlroth was the New York Times’ lead cybersecurity reporter for over a decade. She’s an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security’s...

Sigal Mandelker: Fmr Under Secretary of Treasury

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sigal Mandelker served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence from 2017 to 2019. She’s currently a general part...

Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO: Data vs. Extremism

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Greenblatt is the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. Prior to leading the ADL, he was the founder of Ethos Brands, VP of Global Consumer Prod...

Jon Levin, Dean of Stanford GSB: Identifying Future Innovators

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jonathan Levin is the Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He’s the winner of the 2011 John Bates Medal, and an expert in market de...

Dr. Nir Barzilai: How to Live Past 100

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Nir Barzilai discovered the first “longevity gene” in humans and pioneered key research around the biology of aging. He’s the founding direc...

Tony Thomas, Fmr. 4-Star General: Navigating Threats

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tony is a retired 4-star US Army General and was the commander of the US Special Operations Command from 2016 to 2019. During his 35-year military car...

Megan McArdle: Markets, Monopolies & Innovation

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Auren and Megan discuss some of the less obvious factors that contributed to the superheated economy of the last decade. Megan breaks down how she thi...

Jaan Tallinn: Balancing AI Risk and Opportunity

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jaan Tallinn is one of the founding engineers of Skype and the file-sharing service Kazaa. He’s also a co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Exi...

Dido Harding: Leveraging Data for Public Health

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Baroness Dido Harding has held high-level leadership roles in the UK’s National Health Service and in the private sector, at companies like TalkTalk...

Oren Etzioni: Unlocking AI’s Potential

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Oren Etzioni was the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, or AI2. He’s founded multiple companies that had successful exits, and he’s a pro...

Vivek Ramaswamy: Leadership, Innovation & Ideology

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vivek Ramaswamy is an entrepreneur, investor and author. He founded Roivant Sciences in 2014 and Strive Asset Management in 2021. He’s also the auth...

David Sacks: SaaS Metrics, Tech Cycles & Fundraising in a Down Market

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David is a co-founder and partner at Craft Ventures, one of the foremost SaaS VCs. He was the former COO at Paypal and he’s invested in over 20 unic...

Bret Stephens: The Return of Great Power Competition

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret Stephens is a foreign affairs columnist at the New York Times and author of America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disord...

Thani Shamsi: What Data Companies Can Learn From SaaS

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thani Shamsi is the co-founder and CEO of Datarade, a Berlin-based data commerce platform. Auren and Thani dive deep into the data market and discuss...

Amit Bendov: A Data-Driven Sales Masterclass

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amit Bendov is a serial founder who’s scaled three unicorn software companies to massive exits. He’s currently the co-founder and CEO of Gong, an ...

Eric Frank: Why Real Estate is Behind in Data Adoption

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Frank is the founder and CEO of LightBox, a GIS real estate data company. He’s also the creator of ADR.com and former president of the Investme...

Bryan Mistele: What the Future of Transportation Looks Like

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Mistele is the founder and CEO of INRIX, a leading provider of traffic data and analytics. Auren and Bryan discuss how vehicle technology is ch...

Sarah Bond: Accelerating the Gaming Creator Economy

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Bond is Corporate Vice President of Xbox’s Game Creator Experience & Ecosystem at Microsoft. Auren and Sarah discuss the future of gaming...

Richard Barlow: Data Sharing to Enable the Self-Driving Revolution

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Barlow is the CEO of Wejo, a publicly traded company that collects and analyzes connected vehicle data. Wejo gathers billions of data points a...

Dimitri Dadiomov: Your TAM is Just the Beginning

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dimitri Dadiomov is the co-founder and CEO of Modern Treasury, a payment operations software company valued at over $2 billion. Auren and Dimitri dis...

Richard Hanania: The Real Power Centers of US Foreign Policy

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Hanania is a foreign policy expert and author. He’s the president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology and a visiting sc...

Anthony Scaramucci: The Future of Institutional Investing in Crypto

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of Skybridge Capital, which manages over $800 million in digital assets. He’s also the founde...

Keith Rabois: Velocity, Differentiation & Disruption

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Keith Rabois is the CEO of Openstore and a general partner at Founders Fund. He’s had an amazing career as a founder and senior operator at some of ...

Packy McCormick: Web3 & Smart Optimism

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Packy McCormick is the founder and writer of Not Boring, a Web3 and startup newsletter. He’s also an investor at Not Boring Capital.Packy and Auren ...

Grover Norquist: A 40-Year View of American Politics

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Grover Norquist is the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform and one of the most influential conservative activists in Washington. Grover...

Michael Brown: Getting Defense Spending Up to Speed

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Brown recently finished his term as director of the Defense Innovation Unit, a DoD organization focused on accelerating the adoption of commer...

Rep. Jim Himes: Building a US Digital Currency

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT 4th) serves as the chair of the National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the House...