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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)
Meb Faber: Controversial Investing Insights
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Neil Buddy Shah, Clinton Health CEO: AI, Data & Public Health
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RewindAI CEO Dan Siroker: AI Wearables & Fundraising in Public
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Emil Michael, Fmr Uber CBO: Ridesharing and Picking VCs
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Austen Allred, CEO of BloomTech: Aligning Education Incentives
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Oren Cass, Director of American Compass: The New Right
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Building and Understanding Data Businesses | Auren Hoffman | Media Empires
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Greg Lukianoff, President of FIRE: Free Speech
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SEIU President Mary Kay Henry: Future of US Labor
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Joe Lonsdale: 8VC GP and Palantir Cofounder
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Sam Lessin of SlowVC: The End of Factory-Farmed Unicorns
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Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan: Navigating Startup Boards
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Auren Hoffman: Entity Resolution with Placekey
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Sam Corcos, Levels CEO: 10x Delegation
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Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio: The API Economy
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Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs: Future of Open Source
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Michael Seibel, Y Combinator Group Partner
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Ben Horowitz, co-founder of a16z: Venture Capital
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Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel: AI
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Andrew Ross Sorkin: SVB, Lessons from 2008 Financial Crisis & VC
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Peter Thiel: Science, Society, Stagnation
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Amjad Masad: CEO of Replit: Future of Coding
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Martin Sorrell: S4 & WPP: AdTech, Advertising & AI
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Neil Strauss, Author of "The Game": Growth in the AI Era
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Bram Cohen, Founder of BitTorrent and Chia: Decentralization, Data Science & Blo...
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Bryan Johnson: How to Age in Reverse
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Sue Gordon, fmr ODNI/NGA/CIA: OSINT, Cybersecurity, War
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Ajit Pai: Innovation, Regulation, GDPR
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Steven Pinker: Human Cognition vs. AI
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Erik Torenberg: Optionality, AI & Elites
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Jesse Pujji: Digital Marketing, D2C & Venture Studios
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Immad Akhund, CEO of Mercury: SVB, Neobanks, and UI
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Prince Turki Al Faisal: Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia & Energy
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Dmitri Alperovitch: Ukraine, Russia, Starlink & Cyber Warfare
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Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic: AI and Media
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Hadi Partovi: Coding, AI & the Future of Learning
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David Sinclair: Living to 120
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Matt Kaminski, Politico EIC: Future of Media & Speech
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Marissa Mayer: AI Insights and Walmart, Google & Yahoo
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Tom Tugendhat: UK Minister, OSINT, MI5 & Cybersecurity
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Jack Abraham of Atomic: Incubators & Startup Studios
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Will Manidis: AI, LLMs & Healthcare Data
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Avlok Kohli, AngelList CEO: AI and Dual Threat CEOs
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Elad Gil: AI, Angel Investing, Living Forever
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Johnathan Bi: René Girard & Mimetic Desire
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Nicole Perlroth: Future of Cybersecurity
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Sigal Mandelker: Fmr Under Secretary of Treasury
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Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO: Data vs. Extremism
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Jon Levin, Dean of Stanford GSB: Identifying Future Innovators
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Dr. Nir Barzilai: How to Live Past 100
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