Summation with Auren Hoffman

Auren Hoffman

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

    Moritz Baier-Lentz is one of the foremost investors in gaming, AI, and frontier technologies—including companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Palantir, Etched, Decart, and Recursive. He founded Goldman Sachs's global gaming practice and was previously a partner, IC member, and head of gaming at Lightspeed. Moritz is part of the founding team of General Intuition, an AI research lab training agents on video game data, which has raised a $133M Seed round and a $320M Series A. He is also a senior advisor to OpenAI, McKinsey & Co., and TPG Capital. In this episode of Summation, Moritz and Auren discuss: Why video games are the best data set for the next phase of AIThe idea that humans only truly learn during playWhy Germany's fear of risk is culturalGetting into Stanford with an essay about Diablo IIYou can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Moritz Baier-Lentz on LinkedIn or his website.

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

  2. 28 lug ·  Video

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

    Ronnie Chatterji is the Chief Economist at OpenAI, where he leads research on how AI reshapes growth, jobs, and the economy. He is also an economics professor at Duke. He was previously the White House CHIPS coordinator implementing the $52B CHIPS Act, and before that the chief economist at the US Department of Commerce. In this episode of Summation, Ronnie and Auren discuss: The three things people actually do with ChatGPTThe 10x jump in people handing their work to AI Why the next big leap in AI is adoption and not capabilityThe case that AI could cause a population boom You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Ronnie Chatterji on X at @RonnieChatterji

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

  3. 21 lug

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

    Felix Rieseberg leads engineering for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic. Before that he led desktop and web infrastructure at Notion and built software at Stripe, Slack, and Microsoft.  In this episode of Summation, Felix and Auren discuss: The next AI step function: going from solving a problem to owning a responsibilityWhy AI will win many Nobel prizes before it wins a single PulitzerBringing AI into the physical world, from a $30 coffee-machine display to a Wi-Fi garage openerWhy "here's what your team can learn from the Navy SEALs" is bad management adviceYou can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Felix Rieseberg on X at @felixrieseberg

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

  4. 14 lug

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

    Brendan Wallace is the Founder, CEO & CIO of Fifth Wall, the largest investment firm focused on technology for the built environment, with ~$3B in capital, the firm is driving the growth of nearly 170 companies, backing category-defining PropTech leaders such as Opendoor, Procore, Blend, Hippo, and Bilt Rewards. It's supported by ~115 of the world's largest real estate owner-operators including CBRE, Hilton, Hines, Marriott, Public Storage, Related, and Starwood. Before Fifth Wall, Brendan was at Goldman Sachs and Blackstone, and he co-founded Identified (sold to Workday) and Cabify.  In this episode of Summation, Brendan and Auren discuss: How remote work protected mediocrity for yearsThe data center land grab: powered land, 2037 grid connections, and bring-your-own-solarHow land is the most stable asset on earth and there's still no way to buy an index of itWhy "capital-intensive businesses are bad for venture" is no longer trueYou can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Brendan Wallace on X at @BrendanFWallace

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

  5. 7 lug

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

    Jim Rebesco is the co-founder and CEO of Striveworks, an AI ops company deployed across the US Army, Navy, and combatant commands. In April, Striveworks announced a $70M enterprise agreement with the Pentagon, giving nearly a million defense personnel access to its platform. Jim was previously a partner at Virtu Financial, a pioneering high-frequency trading firm. In this episode of Summation, Jim and Auren discuss: why the real question in AI warfare is who pushes the buttonthe case that autonomy favors big nation states, not insurgentswhy it costs $200,000 to procure anything in the Pentagonwhat high-frequency trading and war have in commonYou can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Jim Rebesco on LinkedIn

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

  6. 30 giu

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

    Carson Block is the founder of Muddy Waters Research, one of the defining activist short-selling firms of the last decade and a half. Since 2010, Muddy Waters has published forensic research exposing accounting fraud at publicly traded companies across China, Europe, and the US and has been right enough times that 11 companies have been delisted as a result. In this episode of Summation, Carson and Auren discuss: why outright fraud is only 20-25% of Muddy Waters'  focusthe Wirecard sagawhy high-trust countries like Germany are a paradise for criminalshow the thing that killed Enron is still completely legalYou can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Carson Block on LinkedIn and on X @muddywatersre

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

  7. 23 giu

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

    Anders Jones is the CEO and co-founder of Facet, a fintech company built to bring high-quality, flat-fee financial advice to an underserved market: the mass affluent. Facet has raised over $250M and manages more than $7B. Anders has seen the real finances of tens of thousands of households. In this episode of Summation, Anders and Auren discuss: why the percentage-of-assets fee is the greatest heist in financethe retention data showing people stick 3x longer when you help them act, not just advisethe horizontal wealth transfer to spouses that nobody is planning forwhy most companies should never raise venture capitalYou can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Anders Jones on LinkedIn

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

  8. 16 giu

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

    Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better, and Supercommunicators. His work focuses on the science of habits, productivity, decision-making, and human connection. In this episode of Summation, Charles and Auren discuss: why producing the words is only 10% of an author's job, and the 90% AI can't dowhat GLP-1s actually do to the brain the serendipity tax: why you pay for five dead-end dinners to get the one that changes your lifethe three skills that separate supercommunicators from everyone elseYou can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Charles Duhigg on X at @cduhigg

    Charles Duhigg on the writing AI can't touch, what GLP-1s really do to your brain, and the serendipity tax
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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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  • Creatore
    Auren Hoffman
  • Anni di attività
    2021 - 2026
  • Puntate
    279
  • Classificazione
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    © 2026 Summation with Auren Hoffman
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    Summation with Auren Hoffman

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