Summation with 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, C...
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- Marco Zappacosta1 ep
- Eric Ries1 ep
- Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg1 ep
Also: Pat Gelsinger, Vlad Tenev, Tudor Achim, John Allen, Adrian Aoun, Tod Sacerdoti, Nirav Tolia, Mike Fenzel, Glenn Youngkin, Ralph Goff, Jake Stauch, Dmitry Shevelenko, Ben Miller, Auren Hoffman, Chris Farmer, Felix Rieseberg, Brendan Wallace
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- 🇺🇸United States · TechnologyHOME#35100K to 529K
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Technology#2213K to 71K
- 🇨🇦Canada · Technology#315.3K to 28K
- 🇦🇪AE · Technology#112.0K to 10K
- 🇵🇭PH · Technology#89154 to 816
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121K to 639K🎙 ~2x weekly·283 episodes·Last published yesterday - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
242K to 1.3M🇺🇸83%🇬🇧11%🇨🇦4%+1 more - Active Followers
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133K to 703K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/27/26 |  Hiring in the AI era: Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait | Daniel Chait is the co-founder and CEO of Greenhouse, the hiring platform behind thousands of companies. Before Greenhouse, he co-founded Lab49, a technology consultancy for Wall Street. He's also the author of Talent Makers. In this episode of Summation, Daniel and Auren discuss: The AI doom loopWhy "tell me about a time when" beats "what are your weaknesses," Why HR quality depends on the CEO, and what Netflix got rightWhy "never quit" is bad founder adviceYou can find Auren Hoffman on... | 1h 00m 08s | ||||||
| 10/20/26 |  Olo CEO Noah Glass: the right to be known | Noah Glass is the founder and CEO of Olo, the digital commerce platform behind ordering, payments, and loyalty for many of America's biggest restaurant brands. He started Olo in 2005 with ordering by text message, before the iPhone existed, took it public in 2021, and took it private with Thoma Bravo last year in a roughly $2 billion deal. In this episode of Summation, Noah and Auren discuss: The $65 million sale that collapsed the night before he told his teamHow Five Guys strong-armed point... | 57m 56s | ||||||
| 10/13/26 |  Protege CEO Bobby Samuels on the data nobody has unlocked yet | Bobby Samuels is the co-founder and CEO of Protege, a platform that licenses real-world data from industries like healthcare and media to companies building AI. Protege has raised $65 million from Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, and Flex Capital. Before Protege, Bobby led partnerships at LiveRamp and ran Privacy Hub at Datavant. In this episode of Summation, Bobby and Auren discuss: The auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, and what a model learns from a failed airlineWhy synthetic data has been "18... | 1h 07m 42s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  Axios Co-founder Roy Schwartz: why average is worthless now | Roy Schwartz co-founded Axios, the news company known for smart brevity, and helped grow it to a $525 million sale to Cox Enterprises. He's now co-founder and CEO of Axios HQ, an AI-powered internal communications platform spun out of Axios. He co-wrote Smart Brevity, and his new book is Simplify. Before Axios, he was chief revenue officer of Politico. In this episode of Summation, Roy and Auren discuss: Meeting bankruptcy: wiping every recurring meeting off the calendar twice a yearAI as a c... | 43m 49s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion finally works | David Kirtley is the co-founder and CEO of Helion Energy, the fusion company. Helion has raised more than $1.5 billion at a $15.5 billion valuation, and Sam Altman is its biggest investor and former chairman. Before fusion, David worked on rocket and space propulsion. In this episode of Summation, David and Auren discuss: Skipping the steam turbine and pulling electricity straight out of a starHow a Best Buy network card helped make fusion possibleRegulating a 150 million degree machine like ... | 41m 53s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 |  Alex Rampell on why the best companies have hostages, not customers | Alex Rampell is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm’s $2.7 billion Apps practice and has driven much of the firm's fintech investing, including Plaid, Mercury, and Opendoor. Before a16z, Alex co-founded multiple companies including Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM), FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnet in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013). In this episode of Summation, Alex and Aure... | 1h 02m 53s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 |  Life360 founder Chris Hulls on existential amusement and why public markets kill bold bets | Chris Hulls is the co-founder and executive chairman of Life360 ($LIF), the family safety and location-sharing app now worth over $5 billion. He was CEO for 17 years before stepping back last year. Before Life360, he served in the Air Force in Afghanistan. In this episode of Summation, Chris and Auren discuss: Why he took Life360 public in Australia and why he'd never run a public company againWhy "you want to sound smart, but not interesting" is the secret rule of corporate speakWhy nobody a... | 1h 01m 05s | ||||||
| 9/8/26 | venture capitaltechnology+3 | Aydin Senkut | FelicisGoogle+4 | Silicon ValleyOttawa+2 | Aydin SenkutFelicis+3 | — | 1h 00m 23s | ||
| 9/1/26 | motivationtechnology+3 | Nir Eyal | Stanford's Graduate School of BusinessHooked+2 | — | Nir Eyalmotivation+3 | — | 1h 07m 26s | ||
| 8/25/26 | identity securityAI agents+3 | Geoff Mattson | SecureAuthXage Security | — | identity securityAI agents+5 | — | 45m 46s | ||
| 8/18/26 | AI raceinfrastructure+3 | Cory Gardner | NCTA | United StatesChina+1 | AIinfrastructure+5 | — | 53m 33s | ||
| 8/11/26 | AI code reviewsoftware development+3 | Harjot Gill | CodeRabbitGitHub+1 | — | AIcode review+5 | — | 55m 22s | ||
| 8/4/26 | AIvideo games+3 | Moritz Baier-Lentz | OpenAISpaceX+7 | — | AIvideo games+5 | — | 1h 05m 01s | ||
| 7/28/26 | AIeconomics+3 | Ronnie Chatterji | OpenAIDuke+2 | — | OpenAIAI technology+3 | — | 56m 31s | ||
| 7/21/26 | AI advancementsNobel prizes+3 | Felix Rieseberg | AnthropicNotion+3 | — | AINobel prize+5 | — | 1h 06m 33s | ||
| 7/14/26 | real estateinvestment+4 | Brendan Wallace | Fifth WallOpendoor+11 | — | Fifth WallBrendan Wallace+4 | — | 53m 10s | ||
| 7/7/26 | AI warfaredrone swarms+3 | Jim Rebesco | StriveworksUS Army+3 | — | AIdrone swarms+5 | — | 1h 00m 04s | ||
| 6/30/26 | short-sellingfraud investigation+3 | Carson Block | Muddy Waters ResearchWirecard | ChinaEurope+1 | short-sellerMuddy Waters+6 | — | 1h 10m 47s | ||
| 6/23/26 | financefinancial advice+3 | Anders Jones | Facet | — | financial adviceflat-fee+3 | — | 49m 36s | ||
| 6/16/26 | writingAI+4 | Charles Duhigg | The New YorkerThe Power of Habit+2 | — | Charles Duhiggwriting+6 | — | 1h 03m 42s | ||
| 6/9/26 | venture capitalhiring trends+3 | Chris Farmer | SignalFire | — | venture fundshiring boom+3 | — | 46m 03s | ||
| 6/2/26 | venture capitalAI technology+3 | Auren Hoffman | GTMnowFlex Capital | — | AI agentsventure capital meeting+3 | — | 39m 59s | ||
| 5/26/26 | AIentrepreneurship+3 | Jake Stauch | ServalRedpoint+3 | — | AI-nativeenterprise service management+3 | — | 50m 10s | ||
| 5/19/26 | AIbusiness development+3 | Dmitry Shevelenko | PerplexityTortoise+4 | — | AIPerplexity+4 | — | 1h 00m 06s | ||
| 5/12/26 | venture capitalreal estate+3 | Ben Miller | Fundrise Innovation FundVCX+5 | — | Fundriseventure capital+5 | — | 1h 02m 03s | ||
| 5/5/26 | national securityintelligence+3 | Ralph Goff | CIA | — | CIARalph Goff+5 | — | 1h 05m 23s | ||
| 4/28/26 | governanceartificial intelligence+3 | Glenn Youngkin | The Carlyle Group | Virginia | Glenn YoungkinAuren Hoffman+7 | — | 57m 44s | ||
| 4/21/26 | home servicesAI impact+3 | Marco Zappacosta | Thumbtack | — | Thumbtackhome services+5 | — | 58m 53s | ||
| 4/14/26 | bad governanceshareholder primacy+4 | Eric Ries | Long-Term Stock ExchangeAnswer AI+2 | — | bad governanceshareholder primacy+4 | — | 58m 46s | ||
| 4/7/26 | defense spendingNATO+4 | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | nuclear energySpitzberg Partners+1 | Germany | defenseGermany+5 | — | 1h 01m 18s | ||
| 3/31/26 | technologygeopolitics+3 | Pat Gelsinger | IntelVMware+2 | — | IntelVMware+6 | — | 58m 10s | ||
| 3/24/26 | mathematical superintelligenceAI+3 | Vlad TenevTudor Achim | AristotleHarmonic+2 | Lean | mathematical superintelligenceAI lab+3 | — | 48m 54s | ||
| 3/17/26 | military strategyartificial intelligence+4 | John Allen | Brookings InstitutionMicrosoft+2 | — | John Allenhyperwar+5 | — | 55m 19s | ||
| 3/10/26 | healthcaretechnology+4 | Adrian Aoun | TorchOpenAI+4 | — | health dataautonomous drones+3 | — | 53m 57s | ||
| 3/3/26 | seed investingventure capital+4 | Tod Sacerdoti | PipedreamWorkday+8 | — | seed investingSaaS mispricing+6 | — | 1h 02m 20s | ||
| 2/24/26 | communityinnovation+3 | Nirav Tolia | NextdoorNYSE: NXDR | — | NextdoorNirav Tolia+7 | — | 57m 42s | ||
| 2/17/26 | military leadershipgeopolitics+3 | Mike Fenzel | United States Security Coordinator | IsraelPalestinian Authority | militarygeopolitics+6 | — | 42m 25s | ||
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Chart history for Summation with Auren Hoffman
Peaked at #11 in AE, currently #11 in AE.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AE | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #22 | #22 | — |
| Canada | — | #31 | #31 | — |
| United States | — | #35 | #35 | — |
| PH | — | #89 | #89 | — |
| NG | — | #96 | #96 | — |
| AR | — | #146 | #146 | — |
Chart Positions
7 placements across 7 markets.
Chart Positions
7 placements across 7 markets.