"World of DaaS"
Conversations with the leaders building the future. Auren Hoffman deep dives with CEOs, investors, and innovators to explore how great companies scale, where technology is headed, and the big ideas driving change.
Auren is CEO of NQB8, GP at Flex Capital, and former CEO of SafeGraph and LiveRamp.
Episodes
250 episodes
Industry Ventures Founder Hans Swildens - how secondaries became the dominant path for VC exits
Hans Swildens is a partner and Head of Industry Ventures at Goldman Sachs. Industry Ventures is one of the pioneers in the secondary market for venture capital, managing several billion in assets ...
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Economist Glenn Hubbard - The Fed’s Dilemma, AI Productivity, and Why Experts Lost Trust
Glenn Hubbard is Dean Emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003 and was Deputy Assis...
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Rembrand CEO Omar Tawakol - why product placement works better than traditional ads
Omar Tawakol is the CEO and founder of Rembrand, an AI-powered virtual product placement company. He founded BlueKai, a data management platform acquired by Oracle for $400M+ in 2014, and Voicera, an AI m...
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We the Builders Podcast l From LiveRamp ($RAMP) to NQB8: Auren Hoffman’s Founder Journey
This episode is a rebroadcast of Auren's appearance on the We the Builders podcast. We The Builders: https://twitter.com/WeThe_BuildersHost Suffiyan Malik: https://twitter.com/suffiyanm...
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FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller - why pricing data businesses trade at 30x EBIT despite 4% growth
Craig Fuller is the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, a freight media company, and SONAR, a supply chain data platform. He’s also the founder of Firecrown, which owns more than 50 publications across aviation, marine, and supply chain sectors, a...
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Wispr Flow CEO Tanay Kothari - voice AI deep dive
Tanay Kothari is the co-founder and CEO of Wispr Flow, a voice-first AI assistant that recently raised $56 million in Series A funding.In this episode of World of DaaS, Tanay and Auren discuss:...
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The LM Brief: India as the Next Epicenter of AI?
Microsoft is investing $17.5 billion to turn India into a global AI powerhouse — from training 20 million workers to building new data infrastructure. We break down what this means for the future of AI talent, innovation, and digital sovereignt...
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YipitData CEO Vin Vacanti - why hedge funds dominate data usage (and corporations don't)
Vinicius Vacanti is the co-founder and CEO of YipitData, an alternative data intelligence platform that analyzes billions of consumer data points daily for institutional investors and corporations. The company reached unicorn status with a $475...
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The LM Brief: The Syntax Illusion
This week’s World of DaaS LM Brief: MIT’s new research reveals how large language models can be fooled by their own grammar. By prioritizing sentence structure ov...
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Episode 17
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Patrick McGee - author of Apple in China – how Apple and China built each other
Patrick McGee is the author of Apple in China, which was named one of the most notable books of the year by the New York Times and the Washington P...
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Dave Morin, Offline Ventures - how venture studios work
Dave Morin is co-founder and managing partner of Offline Ventures, a venture fund and studio backed by Apple as anchor investor. He was an early employee at Facebook, then founded the mobile social network Path.In this episode of World o...
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The LM Brief: Why Many AI Projects Fail
This week’s World of DaaS LM Brief highlights a
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Episode 16
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Azeem Azhar of Exponential View - AI, hyperscalers, reshaping US GDP
Azeem Azhar is the founder of Exponential View, a newsletter and research platform on emerging technology read by over 130,000 executives and policymakers globally, and author of the bestselling book
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The LM Brief: Love Beats Hate
This week’s World of DaaS LM Brief highlights Auren Hoffman’s latest piece, where he explores how emotion—not information—drives behavior across platforms, politics, and AI syst...
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Episode 15
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Bolt.new CEO Eric Simons — one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world
Eric Simons is the CEO and co-founder of StackBlitz, the company behind Bolt.new, which reached $40 million ARR in five months after launching in October 2024. Bolt.new is an...
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The LM Brief: The DaaS Renewal Landscape
This week’s World of DaaS LM Brief explores our latest roundtable, where data leaders discussed the evolving challenges of retaining...
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Episode 14
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Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley - Law Enforcement's Data Problem: Why 50% of Murders Go Unsolved
Garrett Langley is the co-founder and CEO of Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based public safety technology company recently valued at $7.5 billion. Flock manufactures hardware like license plate recognition cameras, drones, and gunshot detection syst...
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The LM Brief: 46ers, 55ers, 81ers, and today
This week’s World of DaaS LM Brief explores Auren Hoffman’s latest Substack post, 46ers, 55ers, 81ers, and today - a fascinating look at how generat...
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Episode 13
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Venturehouse Group CEO Mark Ein - moneyball for CEOs, real estate data & buying sports teams
Mark Ein is the founder, chairman and CEO of Venturehouse Group and has been involved in the founding or early stages of six companies worth over $1 billion. He also served as Chairman of the President's Export Council, is Executive Chairman of...
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The LM Brief: The Ethics of Agentic AI - Balancing Autonomy and Trust
This week’s World of DaaS LM Brief explores The New Stack’s ar...
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Episode 12
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Astroten Founder Richard Shotton - why your A/B tests fail and how behavioral science can fix them
Richard Shotton is the founder of Astroten and author of several bestselling books on marketing, including The Choice Factory,
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The LM Brief: The Energy Bottleneck Behind AI’s Growth
This week’s World of DaaS LM Brief explores
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Episode 11
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Clay COO Varun Anand - why cutting-edge GTM teams are moving away from traditional CRMs
Varun Anand is the co-founder and Head of Operations at
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