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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).
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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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Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley - Law Enforcement's Data Problem: Why 50% of Mu...
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The LM Brief: 46ers, 55ers, 81ers, and today
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Venturehouse Group CEO Mark Ein - moneyball for CEOs, real estate data & buying...
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The LM Brief: The Ethics of Agentic AI - Balancing Autonomy and Trust
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Astroten Founder Richard Shotton - why your A/B tests fail and how behavioral sc...
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The LM Brief: The Energy Bottleneck Behind AI’s Growth
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Clay COO Varun Anand - why cutting-edge GTM teams are moving away from tradition...
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The LM Brief: How Leaders Can Close the AI Intelligence Gap
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Beniamin Mincu CEO, MultiversX - building the trust layer for AI
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The LM Brief: How to Actually Look for a Job (Without Wasting Everyone’s Time)
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OpenGov CEO Zac Bookman - GovTech, data access, and AI transformation
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The LM Brief: AI Overviews and the Future of Publishing
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OpenAI CSO Jason Kwon - power, policy and the race to scale
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The LM Brief: The Only Right Way to Ask for an Intro (Everything Else Is Wrong)
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beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk - why email beats social media
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The LM Brief: Navigating GDPR Compliance Outside the EU and UK
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Gokul Rajaram of Marathon - How AI Will Reinvent Ad Platforms
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