Serval CEO Jake Stauch: talent is the only moat left, hiring founders as FDEs, and building a $1B company with your wife and a newborn
26 May 2026
50m
Auren Hoffman · Technology
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).
Episodes
Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko on why curiosity is AI’s scarcest resource
19 May 2026
1h 0m
Fundrise CEO Ben Miller: VCX, Roaring Kitty's revenge, and AI killing the office
12 May 2026
1h 2m
Six-time CIA Station Chief Ralph Goff on the new doctrine of war
05 May 2026
1h 5m
Glenn Youngkin on governing like a CEO, the AI power crisis, and why every operator should run for office
28 Apr 2026
57m
Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta on why trades are AI-proof, the trillion-dollar home services market, and why software stopped being a capital asset
21 Apr 2026
58m
Eric Ries on why "bad governance" outperforms, the case against shareholder primacy, and AI's Chernobyl moment
14 Apr 2026
58m
Fmr. German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on NATO, nuclear energy, and how to disagree without blood
07 Apr 2026
1h 1m
Fmr Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on chips, China, and lessons from Andy Grove
31 Mar 2026
58m
Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim on mathematical superintelligence, why math is harder than code for LLMs, and the end of buggy software
24 Mar 2026
48m
Retired 4-star General John Allen on Iran, AI hyperwar, and Taiwan’s future
17 Mar 2026
55m
Adrian Aoun on healthcare as a product, Apple's AI problem, and why you should have kids now
10 Mar 2026
53m
Tod Sacerdoti (Flex GP and Pipedream CEO) on seed at scale and SaaS mispricing
03 Mar 2026
1h 2m
Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on bowling alone, AI bots, and why the heartland is happier than the coasts
24 Feb 2026
57m
Lt. General Mike Fenzel (Ret.) on bad data, bad experts, and why we can’t exit wars
17 Feb 2026
42m
Martin Shkreli on Prison, Beating Bloomberg, and Being Hated
11 Feb 2026
1h 1m
World of DaaS is now Summation
09 Feb 2026
1m
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth - The $30 Trillion Knowledge Work Market, Training Frontier AI Models and Building Stage Five Culture
03 Feb 2026
41m
Chapter CEO Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz - medicare complexity, $100B fraud and how tech can fix it
27 Jan 2026
43m
Industry Ventures Founder Hans Swildens - how secondaries became the dominant path for VC exits
20 Jan 2026
54m
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