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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, Chairman of Dialog; former CEO of SafeGraph and LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP).

Website ↗ Last published 3 November 2026 292 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Summation with Auren Hoffman

“Everybody was surprised by how fast AI grew. Because of that, there was only one option for a GPU, which is NVIDIA. So they can get 80% margins instead of the typical 30% in semiconductors. … My bet is their market share will have to decline and their margins will have to decline.” — Vinod Khosla, Summation with Auren Hoffman
Vinod Khosla · 3 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I prefer brutal honesty to hypocritical politeness. 99% of the world only does hypocritical politeness. Oh, you're doing great. How does that help you? What's actionable? Hey, you're screwing up in this area. Do something about it. Is actionable.” — Vinod Khosla, Summation with Auren Hoffman
Vinod Khosla · 3 Nov 2026 Listen →
“The best days for the salad concepts are the Mondays in January. And the worst days are the Fridays and Saturdays in November and December. It's a complete inverse relationship. … People like to save healthy favorites because they think, I'm so good, I ate this salad and I'm going to eat this salad all the time. And they don't like to save these unhealthy, guilty-pleasure, late-night comfort foods, but they reorder them more often than they do the favorites.” — Noah Glass, Summation with Auren Hoffman
Noah Glass · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One of the jokes we have internally is the issue with buying Spirit Airlines data is you're going to teach the models to be really good at operating a failed airline.” — Bobby Samuels, Summation with Auren Hoffman
Bobby Samuels · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“When I started at Datavant, which would have been like 2020, we were 18 months away from synthetic data having a huge moment. When I left four years later, we were 18 months away from synthetic data having a huge moment.” — Bobby Samuels, Summation with Auren Hoffman
Bobby Samuels · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The best companies have hostages and not customers… If in the dropdown menu the United States of America as a country is listed right before Uzbekistan, you're a hostage company.” — Alex Rampell, Summation with Auren Hoffman
Alex Rampell · 22 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Summation with Auren Hoffman is hosted by Auren Hoffman , Mike Linton and Scott Barker .

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