"World of DaaS"
deep dive into Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) businesses. World of DaaS is a podcast for data enthusiasts, by data enthusiasts, where Auren Hoffman talks to business and technology leaders about all things data - building it, acquiring it, analyzing it, and everything in between.
Episodes
173 episodes
Morning Brew founder Alex Lieberman - what B2B marketers get wrong
Alex Lieberman is the co-founder of Morning Brew, a business newsletter with over 4 million subscribers. Alex founded Morning Brew in his dorm room and sold a majority stake to Business Insider fo...
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Episode 170
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52:05
Altana CEO Evan Smith - Supply Chains, China, and Globalization 2.0
Evan Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Altana, a global supply chain management platform. Altana is one of the newest freight tech unicorns out there– they recently raised $200mm in a Series C round that valued the company at over a billion do...
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Episode 169
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44:27
Windfall CEO Arup Banerjee - Real Data on the Ultra Wealthy
Arup Banerjee is the co-founder and CEO of Windfall, a data company that estimates the net worth of every American. In this episode of World of DaaS, Arup and Auren discuss: W...
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Episode 169
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45:35
Sam Parr - Raising Normal Kids After a Major Exit
Sam Parr is the co-host of My First Million podcast and the founder of
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Episode 168
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52:59
Tomas Pueyo - Uncharted Territories: From Physical Geography to AI
Tomas Pueyo is the author of the Uncharted Territories blog, where he analyzes global trends in technology, politics, and economics. Tomas gained international recognition in 2020 for his data-driven analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, with his ...
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Episode 167
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57:58
Ramp CEO Eric Glyman - The Hidden Incentives Shaping Banking and Fintech
Eric Glyman is the co-founder and CEO of Ramp, a financial operations platform. Ramp is one of the fastest growing startups in history, reaching $100M ARR in just three years. Prior to Ramp, Eric co-founded Paribus, a consumer finance app acqui...
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Episode 166
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48:24
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg: WordPress vs WP Engine
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and founder of WordPress on the ongoing trademark dispute between WordPress and WP Engine, a hosting company owned by private equity firm Silver Lake.Matt Socials:Twitter: https://x.com/photomatt
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Episode 165
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28:03
Ben Casnocha - Flaws as Assets: Unconventional Talent Spotting
Ben Casnocha is a cofounder and partner at Village Global, an early-stage venture capital firm backed by tech luminaries including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. He was also chief of staff to Reid Hoffman and co-authored two best ...
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Episode 164
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57:25
Matt Clifford: Entrepreneur First - Ambition and Power
Matt Clifford is the co-founder and chair of Entrepreneur First, a global talent investor that has helped create over 500 companies worth more than $10 billion. He’s also the founding chair of the Advanced ...
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Episode 163
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56:23
Daniel Pink - Selling in the Age of AI and Big Data
Daniel Pink is the author of seven bestselling books on business, work, and human behavior, including Drive and To Sell Is...
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Episode 162
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49:08
Yext CEO Michael Walrath - Software Consolidation and Convergence
Michael Walrath is the chairman and CEO of Yext, a publicly traded digital presence platform. Prior to Yext, Michael cofounded Right Media, the first at-scale digital ad exchange, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2007. In this episode...
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Episode 161
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50:25
Bjorn Lomborg - A Data-Driven Approach to Global Issues
Bjorn Lomborg is the president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and has authored several bestselling books including "The Skeptical Environmentalist", "False Alarm" and recently “Best Things First.” In this episode of...
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Episode 160
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47:19
Alex Wirth - CEO of Quorum - How AI is Disrupting Lawmaking
Alex Wirth is the cofounder and CEO of Quorum, a public affairs software platform. In this episode of World of DaaS, Alex and Auren discuss: How AI is affecting lawmaking The evolution of modern lobbyi...
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Episode 159
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44:52
Bryan Caplan - The Signaling Game in Education & Parenting
Bryan is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He’s also the author of a number of bestselling books, including The Case Against Education,
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Episode 158
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1:03:11
People.ai CEO Oleg Rogynskyy - How AI is Replacing Sales People
Oleg Rogynskyy is the founder and CEO of People.ai, an ai-powered revenue intelligence platform. He’s also an advisor to the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.In this episode of World of DaaS, Oleg and Auren discuss:
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Episode 157
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Alex Tabarrok - Unpacking the Decline of U.S. Economic Dynamism
Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the co-author of Marginal Revolution, one of the most popular and long-running blogs on the internet. In this episode of World of DaaS, Alex and A...
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Episode 156
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54:15
Bright Data CEO Or Lenchner - Why Meta Lost the Web-Scraping Battle
Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data, a leading web data collection company. In this episode of World of DaaS, Auren and Or discuss:Web data freedom and ethicsBright Data's legal battle with Meta
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Episode 155
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54:33
Daffy CEO Adam Nash - Data and Design in Fintech
Adam is the co-founder & CEO of Daffy, a fintech platform for charitable giving. Prior to Daffy, Adam was CEO of Wealthfront, VP of Product & Growth at Dropbox and VP of Product Management at LinkedI...
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Episode 154
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1:00:05
Jason Bordoff - Shale, Solar, and Global Energy Futures
Jason Bordoff is an expert on geopolitics, energy security and the clean energy transition. He is the Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and he also held ...
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Episode 153
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Substack CEO Chris Best - Building a New Engine for Culture
Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Substack. Prior to Substack, he co founded the messaging service Kik. In this episode of World of DaaS, Chris and Auren discuss:Attention, quality, and gatekeepers in me...
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Episode 152
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47:41
Dr. Robert Cialdini - 7 Principles of Influence Explained
Robert Cialdini is a world renowned psychologist and author. His seminal work, "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion," published in 1984, is a classic in the field. He taught marketing, business and psychology at Stanford and he is the Regen...
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Episode 151
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46:39
Fundrise CEO Ben Miller: Democratizing Private Investing
Ben Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Fundrise, an online investment platform that gives retail investors access to private assets like real estate and venture capital. Fundrise has invested over $7B in real estate and has 385,000+ investors ...
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Episode 151
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47:35
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein - The Ecommerce Entrepreneur Class
Harley Finkelstein is the President of Shopify ($SHOP), a leading ecommerce platform valued at over $80 billion. Shopify powers over 2 million ecommerce stores in 175 countries. On this episode, Harley and Auren discuss: <...
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Episode 150
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Brent Beshore - Private Equity for “Boring” Businesses
Brent Beshore is the founder and CEO of Permanent Equity, a unique private equity firm that buys cash-generating small and mid-sized businesses— with the intention to hold them indefinitely. Permanent Equity owns over a dozen busin...
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Episode 149
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47:30
Mark Gerson - Founder of GLG: Better Philanthropy
Mark Gerson co-founded Gerson Lehrman Group, the world’s largest expert network. He’s also the co-founder and Chairman of United Hatzalah and the African Mission Healthcare Foundation. In this episode of World of DaaS, Auren and Mar...
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Episode 148
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