Summation with Auren Hoffman

Technology Podcasts

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).

Episodes

Life360 founder Chris Hulls on existential amusement and why public markets kill bold bets

Felicis Founder Aydin Senkut: why moats are dead and alive

Nir Eyal on belief, motivation, and the end of suffering

Nir Eyal on belief, motivation, and the end of suffering

SecureAuth CEO Geoffrey Mattson on the coming fraudpocalypse and the death of the password

Fmr. Senator Cory Gardner: why the AI race is won on boring infrastructure and how China wins by making America hate AI

CodeRabbit CEO Harjot Gill on software's new bottleneck and zero to $50m ARR in 2 years

Moritz Baier-Lentz on why the future of AI runs on video games

OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji: measuring the greatest technology of our time

Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: why AI wins a Nobel before a Pulitzer

Fifth Wall CEO Brendan Wallace: the data center land grab and the most stable asset on earth you still can't buy

Striveworks CEO Jim Rebesco on drone swarms, AI for warfighters, and the end of air superiority

Short-seller Carson Block: a fugitive CEO, Libyan spies, and $50B fraud

Facet CEO Anders Jones on the biggest heist in finance, how advisors really sell permission, and the great boomer wealth transfer

Charles Duhigg on the writing AI can't touch, what GLP-1s really do to your brain, and the serendipity tax

SignalFire CEO Chris Farmer on why venture funds now last 20 years and the hiring boom behind the layoffs

GTMnow Podcast | Your First VC Meeting Will Be Agent-to-Agent

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

Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko: why curiosity is now AI’s scarcest resource

Fundrise CEO Ben Miller: VCX, Roaring Kitty's revenge, and AI killing the office