Summation with Auren Hoffman
Episodes
Jason Gardner: Modernizing the Payments System
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Gardner is the founder and CEO of Marqeta, an open-API card issuing platform used by companies like Square, Doordash, and Uber. Jason is one of...
Tim Urban: Zooming Out on Everything
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Urban is the creator of Wait But Why, a blog with over half a million monthly subscribers. He writes about productivity, science, politics and the...
RJ Pittman: Turning Buildings into Data
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
RJ Pittman is the CEO of Matterport, a $1.2 billion market cap spatial data and 3D capture company. RJ and Auren discuss the mechanics of bringing re...
Mark Penn: Finding the Next Microtrends
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Penn is the CEO of Stagwell and a longtime pollster and strategic advisor. He’s a former senior executive at Microsoft and has advised politici...
Christopher Ahlberg: Building a Safer Future
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Ahlberg is the founder and CEO of Recorded Future, a cyberintelligence firm that sold for $780 million in 2019. He formerly co-founded the...
Terence Kawaja: The Future of AdTech
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Terry Kawaja is the founder and CEO of Luma Partners, a media and technology investment bank. Terry has advised on over $300 billion in transactions, ...
Sheila Heen: How to Navigate Hard Conversations
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Heen is the Deputy Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and the bestselling author of Difficult Conversations. She’s an internationall...
Cindy Cohn: Who Should Regulate the Internet?
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cindy Cohn is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the largest digital rights organization in the world. In this wide rangin...
Neal Katyal: Taking on the Supreme Court
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Neal Katyal is a professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University, a partner at Hogan Lovells law firm, and the former Acting Solicitor Gen...
David Epstein: Never Underestimate the Generalist
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Epstein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “Range” and “The Sports Gene”. Auren and David discuss David’s latest book R...
Rob Buxton: The State of DaaS (A Market Snapshot)
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Buxton is a partner at AGC Partners where he specializes in the DaaS and SaaS capital markets. Rob has completed over 300 financings and M&A...
Gary Marcus: The Failed Promise of Artificial Intelligence
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Marcus is the Author of Reboot AI and professor at NYU. Gary and Auren discuss the advancements in and shortcomings of artificial intelligence. ...
Or Offer: The Mechanics of Data Businesses
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Or Offer is Co-Founder and CEO of Similarweb (ticker: SMWB), a digital intelligence data company. Auren and Or dive into how data businesses actually...
Antonio Garcia Martinez: A New Approach to Regulation
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Antonio Garcia Martinez is the NYT best selling author of Chaos Monkeys. He is a senior fellow at the Lincoln Network. Previously, he was the founder ...
Liv Boeree: Developing a Probabilistic Mindset
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liv Boeree is a former world poker champion, a science commentator and content creator, and a philanthropist. Auren and Liv dive into a broad range ...
Jeremy Stanley: How Machines Actually Learn
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Stanley is Founder and CTO at Anomalo. Previously, he was VP of Data Science at Instacart. Auren and Jeremy dive into progress in the artifici...
Ryan Breslow: The King vs. The Mob
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Breslow is the Chairman at Bolt, a decacorn online checkout startup. While he’s built one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley, ...
Glenn Fogel: The Greatest Acquirer in History
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Fogel is CEO at Booking Holdings, a juggernaut in the travel industry. Glenn has a remarkable track record of completing successful acquisitions...
Auren Hoffman: A Tale about Truth in Data
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a rebroadcast of Auren's appearance on The Data Scientist Show. Auren and Daliana dive into the nuts and bolts of building a ge...
Barry Nalebuff: A Radical New Way to Negotiate
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Nalebuff is the author of Split the Pie, co-founder of Honest Tea and professor of negotiations at Yale. A big part of the problem with most ne...
Joel Myers: The Father of Commercial Meteorology
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Joel Myers is the founder and CEO of AccuWeather, one of the oldest weather companies in the world. Weather companies are really data companies a...
Charlie Youakim: The Real Economics of Buy-Now-Pay-Later
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie is co-founder and CEO of Sezzle, a $1.2 billion market cap alternative payment platform.Charlie and Auren dive into the unit economics of Buy-...
Jacob Helberg: The New Cold War
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Helberg is the author of The Wires of War, senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology, and co-chair at the B...
Auren Hoffman: It's Our Moral Obligation to Make Data More Accessible
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Audio version of "It's Our Moral Obligation to Make Data More Accessible" by Auren Hoffman. You can find the full essay at: safegraph....
Bob Moore: Solving the Cold Start Problem
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Moore is CEO at Crossbeam, a partnerships ecosystem platform. Bob and Auren dive into the challenges of kickstarting a partnership, the prisoner’...
Esther Dyson: Using Data to Revolutionize Wellness
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Esther Dyson is an investor, journalist, author, and philanthropist. She is the executive founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project focused on improvi...
Sebastian Mallaby: The Greatest Storyteller in Venture Capital
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Mallaby is the author of The Power Law, a renowned journalist and a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Rela...
David Perell: Building a Personal Monopoly
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David is a blogger, educator and a voracious tweeter. He runs the Write of Passage course on how to become a better writer and communicator. David an...
Dina Srinivasan: Reining in Big Tech
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dina is a writer and researcher who has published extensively on antitrust matters in big tech. She is also a Fellow with the Thurman Arnold Project a...
Tyler Henritze: Thematic Investing to Predict the Future
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Henritze is Head of Strategic Investments at Blackstone Real Estate Americas. Tyler has been with Blackstone since 2004 and has worked on over $...
Emiliano Kargieman: Remapping the Entire Earth
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emiliano Kargieman is Founder and CEO at Satellogic, a satellite and geospatial data company.Emiliano and Auren discuss the power of low-orbit satelli...
Tod Sacerdoti: Let’s Talk About Founder Compensation
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tod Sacerdoti is Founder and CEO at Pipedream, a platform that lets developers connect APIs remarkably fast. Tod and Auren are both serial founder CE...
Javier de la Torre: Building a Killer Go-To-Market Strategy
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Javier de la Torre is Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO, a spatial analytics and intelligence platform. Javier and Auren dive into the jour...
Peter Platzer: Moore’s Law Strikes the Satellite Industry!
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Platzer is CEO at Spire, owner and operator of the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Peter and Auren dive into how the satelli...
Ann Fudge: Leveling Up Board Meetings
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Fudge is the former Chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands and has served on countless boards. She serves on the boards of GE, Novartis, N...
Satyen Sangani: We’re Still in the Dark Ages of Data
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Satyen Sangani, Co-Founder and CEO at Alation, joins World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Auren and Satyen discuss the importance of data literacy and wa...
Gabe Rogol: A Masterclass in Demand Gen
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gabe Rogol, CEO of Demandbase, joins World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Auren and Gabe break down how the modern marketing funnel works and the pitfall...
Alex Dalyac: The Secret to Building a Computer Vision Unicorn
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Dalyac, co-founder and CEO of Tractable AI, joins World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Tractable offers artificial intelligence to help people repa...
Jonathan Levin: The Blockchain Archivist
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Levin, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Chainalysis, joins World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Auren and Jonathan dive into the importa...
Tom Goldstein: The Art of Supreme Court Advocacy
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Goldstein, Supreme Court litigation expert, co-founder of SCOTUSblog, and professor at Harvard Law School joins World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. ...
Julia Galef: How to be Wrong Correctly
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Galef, co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, host of the podcast Rationally Speaking, and author of The Scout Mindset joins World of...
Dan Doctoroff: Where the Sidewalk Leads
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Doctoroff, Founder and CEO of Sidewalk Labs and former CEO of Bloomberg joins World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Dan was also formerly the Deputy M...
Richard Haass: Why We Need More Global Coordination
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Richard previously served as Director of Pol...
Godard Abel (CEO of G2): Defining Software Categories
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Godard Abel, CEO of G2, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. G2 is a software marketplace, valued at $1.1B that helps people make software dec...
Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Technology drives many transformations in how humans interact. Yet, very few people working in technology spend time studying the past. Niall Ferguson...
Dean Stoecker (Founder of Alteryx): 20 Year Journey to Successful IPO
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dean Stoecker, co-founder and former CEO of Alteryx, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Alteryx is a $5 billion market cap data analytics au...
Daniel Gross (CEO of Pioneer): Why Energy is the Best Predictor of Talent
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Spotting talent is really hard. Identifying A-players can feel impossible. Peter Thiel has one of the best interview questions for identifying talent,...
Tyler Cowen: Identifying Talent and Measuring Organizational Capital
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Cowen, Chair of Economics at George Mason University, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Tyler is the host of the Conversations with T...
Daniel Yanisse (CEO of Checkr): Building a Fairer Future of Work
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Yanisse, CEO of Checkr, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Checkr is a $4.6 billion market cap dollar company automating background c...
Sinan Aral: Solving Social Media Market Failures
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sinan Aral, Professor of Management, Marketing, IT and Data Science at MIT, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Sinan is also the director of...
Hayden Brown (CEO of Upwork): Owning the Work Marketplace
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hayden Brown, CEO of Upwork, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Upwork is a $6 billion market cap workplace company. Auren and Hayden cover ...
Glen Weyl: Reimagining Democracy with Quadratic Funding and Quadratic Voting
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Glen Weyl is Microsoft Office of CTO Political Economist & Social Technologist, founder of RadicalXChange, and author of “Radical Markets: Uproo...
Will Marshall (CEO of Planet): Building a Data Company in Space
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will Marshall, co-founder and CEO of Planet, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Prior to Planet, Will served as a Scientist at NASA/USRA. Pl...
Byrne Hobart: Why Airline Loyalty Programs Are Really Just FinTech Companies
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Byrne Hobart, Author of The Diff talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. The Diff is a top newsletter that covers inflection points in finance an...
Susan Athey: Tech Economists, Machine Learning, and Causation
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Athey, The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford's Graduate Business School, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Susan ser...
Scott Stephenson (CEO of Verisk): How Data Sharing Transformed Insurance
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Stephenson, CEO of Verisk (NASDAQ: VRSK), talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Verisk Analytics is a $28 billion market cap data analyti...
Henry Schuck (CEO of ZoomInfo): Building A Billion Dollar Data Company
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI), talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. ZoomInfo is a $17 billion market cap B2B data company and one...
Will Lansing (CEO of FICO): Power of Data Standards
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will Lansing, CEO of FICO (NYSE:FICO), talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Will previously served as the CEO of InfoSpace, ValueVision Media,...
Stephen Orban: Data Marketplace Innovation at Amazon
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Orban, GM of the AWS Marketplace, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Stephen previously served as the GM of the AWS Data Exchange an...
Hilary Mason: Rise of Data Science
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hilary Mason, CEO of Hidden Door and data scientist in residence at Accel Partners, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Hilary previously co-...
Jack Dangermond: Building Esri
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Dangermond, founder and CEO of Esri, talks with World of DaaS host Auren Hoffman. Esri is the global market leader in GIS and location intellig...
Coming Soon: World of DaaS
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
World of DaaS is a podcast for data enthusiasts, by data enthusiasts, where Auren Hoffman talks to business and technology thought leaders about all t...