Summation with Auren Hoffman

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Auren Hoffman

Weekly · ~59 min · since 2021 · 293 episodes

TopicsTechnology & AI 95 Science 11 Defence & security 10 Media & journalism 10 China & Asia 8

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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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OnePay CEO Omer Ismail on fixing money for 150 million Americans

Nov 10 · 2 days ago54 min
Vinod Khosla: freeing humanity from “servitude to survival”

Nov 3 · 1 week ago59 min
Hiring in the AI era: Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait

Oct 27 · 2 weeks ago1h 00m
Olo CEO Noah Glass: the right to be known

Oct 20 · 3 weeks ago58 min
Protege CEO Bobby Samuels on the data nobody has unlocked yet

Oct 13 · 1 month ago1h 08m
Axios Co-founder Roy Schwartz: why average is worthless now

Oct 6 · 1 month ago44 min
Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion finally works

Sep 29 · 1 month ago42 min
Alex Rampell on why the best companies have hostages, not customers

Sep 22 · 1 month ago1h 03m
Life360 founder Chris Hulls on existential amusement and why public markets kill bold bets

Sep 15 · 1 month ago1h 01m
Felicis founder Aydin Senkut: why moats are dead and alive

Sep 8 · 2 months ago1h 00m
Nir Eyal on belief, motivation, and the end of suffering

Sep 1 · 2 months ago1h 07m
SecureAuth CEO Geoff Mattson on the coming fraudpocalypse and the death of the password

Aug 25 · 2 months ago46 min
Fmr. Senator Cory Gardner: why the AI race is won on boring infrastructure and how China wins by making America hate AI

Aug 18 · 2 months ago54 min
CodeRabbit CEO Harjot Gill on software's new bottleneck and zero to $50m ARR in 2 years

Aug 11 · 3 months ago55 min
Moritz Baier-Lentz on why the future of AI runs on video games

Aug 4 · 3 months ago1h 05m
OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji: measuring the greatest technology of our time

Jul 28 · 3 months ago57 min
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: why AI wins a Nobel before a Pulitzer

Jul 21 · 3 months ago1h 07m
Fifth Wall CEO Brendan Wallace: the data center land grab and the most stable asset on earth you still can't buy

Jul 14 · 3 months ago53 min
Striveworks CEO Jim Rebesco on drone swarms, AI for warfighters, and the end of air superiority

Jul 7 · 4 months ago1h 00m
Short-seller Carson Block: a fugitive CEO, Libyan spies, and $50B fraud

Jun 30 · 4 months ago1h 11m
Facet CEO Anders Jones on the biggest heist in finance, how advisors really sell permission, and the great boomer wealth transfer

Jun 23 · 4 months ago50 min
Charles Duhigg on the writing AI can't touch, what GLP-1s really do to your brain, and the serendipity tax

Jun 16 · 4 months ago1h 04m
SignalFire CEO Chris Farmer on why venture funds now last 20 years and the hiring boom behind the layoffs

Jun 9 · 5 months ago46 min
GTMnow Podcast | Your First VC Meeting Will Be Agent-to-Agent

Jun 2 · 5 months ago40 min
Serval CEO Jake Stauch: talent is the only moat left, hiring founders as FDEs, and building a $1B company with your wife and a newborn

May 26 · 5 months ago50 min
Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko on why curiosity is AI’s scarcest resource

May 19 · 5 months ago1h 00m
Fundrise CEO Ben Miller: VCX, Roaring Kitty's revenge, and AI killing the office

May 12 · 6 months ago1h 02m
Six-time CIA Station Chief Ralph Goff on the new doctrine of war

May 5 · 6 months ago1h 05m
Glenn Youngkin on governing like a CEO, the AI power crisis, and why every operator should run for office

Apr 28 · 6 months ago58 min
Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta on why trades are AI-proof, the trillion-dollar home services market, and why software stopped being a capital asset

Apr 21 · 6 months ago59 min
Eric Ries on why "bad governance" outperforms, the case against shareholder primacy, and AI's Chernobyl moment

Apr 14 · 6 months ago59 min
Fmr. German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on NATO, nuclear energy, and how to disagree without blood

Apr 7 · 7 months ago1h 01m
Fmr Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on chips, China, and lessons from Andy Grove

Mar 31 · 7 months ago58 min
Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim on mathematical superintelligence, why math is harder than code for LLMs, and the end of buggy software

Mar 24 · 7 months ago49 min
Retired 4-star General John Allen on Iran, AI hyperwar, and Taiwan’s future

Mar 17 · 7 months ago55 min
Adrian Aoun on healthcare as a product, Apple's AI problem, and why you should have kids now

Mar 10 · 8 months ago54 min
Tod Sacerdoti (Flex GP and Pipedream CEO) on seed at scale and SaaS mispricing

Mar 3 · 8 months ago1h 02m
Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on bowling alone, AI bots, and why the heartland is happier than the coasts

Feb 24 · 8 months ago58 min
Lt. General Mike Fenzel (Ret.) on bad data, bad experts, and why we can’t exit wars

Feb 17 · 8 months ago42 min
Martin Shkreli on prison, beating Bloomberg, and being hated

Feb 11 · 9 months ago1h 02m
World of DaaS is now Summation

Feb 9 · 9 months ago1 min
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth - The $30 Trillion Knowledge Work Market, Training Frontier AI Models and Building Stage Five Culture

Feb 3 · 9 months ago42 min
Chapter CEO Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz - medicare complexity, $100B fraud and how tech can fix it

Jan 27 · 9 months ago42 min
Industry Ventures Founder Hans Swildens - how secondaries became the dominant path for VC exits

Jan 20 · 9 months ago54 min
Economist Glenn Hubbard - The Fed’s dilemma, AI productivity, and why experts lost trust

Jan 12 · 9 months ago42 min
Rembrand CEO Omar Tawakol - why product placement works better than traditional ads

Jan 6 · 10 months ago53 min
We the Builders Podcast l From LiveRamp ($RAMP) to NQB8: Auren Hoffman’s Founder Journey

Dec 2025 · 10 months ago1h 44m
FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller - why pricing data businesses trade at 30x EBIT despite 4% growth

Dec 2025 · 10 months ago52 min
Wispr Flow CEO Tanay Kothari - voice AI deep dive

Dec 2025 · 10 months ago36 min
The LM Brief: India as the Next Epicenter of AI?

Dec 2025 · 11 months ago13 min
YipitData CEO Vin Vacanti - why hedge funds dominate data usage (and corporations don't)

Dec 2025 · 11 months ago52 min
The LM Brief: The Syntax Illusion

Dec 2025 · 11 months ago15 min
Patrick McGee - author of Apple in China – how Apple and China built each other

Dec 2025 · 11 months ago57 min
Dave Morin, Offline Ventures - how venture studios work

Nov 2025 · 11 months ago1h 02m
The LM Brief: Why Many AI Projects Fail

Nov 2025 · 11 months ago17 min
Azeem Azhar of Exponential View - AI, hyperscalers, reshaping US GDP

Nov 2025 · 11 months ago52 min
The LM Brief: Love Beats Hate

Nov 2025 · 11 months ago13 min
Bolt.new CEO Eric Simons — one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world

Nov 2025 · 1 year ago40 min
The LM Brief: The DaaS Renewal Landscape

Nov 2025 · 1 year ago19 min
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley - Law Enforcement's Data Problem: Why 50% of Murders Go Unsolved

Nov 2025 · 1 year ago54 min

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