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Protege CEO Bobby Samuels on the data nobody has unlocked yet
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Auren Hoffman
Bobby Samuels is the co-founder and CEO of Protege, a platform that licenses real-world data from industries like healthcare and media to companies building AI. Protege has raised $65 million from Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, and Flex Capital. Before Protege, Bobby led partnerships at LiveRamp and ran Privacy Hub at Datavant.
In this episode of Summation, Bobby and Auren discuss:
- The auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, and what a model learns from a failed airline
- Why synthetic data has been "18 months away" for six years
- Why every data pitch deck with "hedge funds" on the customer slide is wrong
- The genome as the most valuable dataset nobody has unlocked
- Why the smartest buyers are the easiest ones to sell to
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Bobby Samuels on Linkedin
