Summation with Auren Hoffman

World of DaaS LM Brief: AI Agents: Data Readiness Drives Success

Airtable CEO Howie Liu - Excel vs Access, Founder Mode, and the Future of SaaS

Dwarkesh Patel - AI Timelines, Productivity & Global Stagnation

Morning Consult CEO Michael Ramlet - AI, consumer sentiment and reinventing survey research

Atlan CEO Prukalpa Sankar - AI agent workflows and hiring AI native talent

In this episode of the World of DaaS podcast, Auren Hoffman interviews Prukalpa Sankar, the co-founder and CEO of Atlan, about transforming Atlan into an AI-native company. Prukalpa details Atlan's three-level approach, which includes forming an AI task force, launching an AI productivity challenge, and creating AI-nat...

Cardlytics CEO Amit Gupta - transaction data and commerce media

Fabrice Grinda of FJ Labs - diversified portfolios, secondary sales and dinner parties

Rabbi David Wolpe - AI, faith, and the future of human connection

Superpower Founder Max Marchione - billionaire health protocols and the future of medicine

Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell - predicting acquisitions, value of data, AI

LiveKit CEO Russ d'Sa - voice AI and the future of human-machine interaction

In this episode of World of DaaS, Auren Hoffman interviews Russ d'Sa, CEO of LiveKit, about the challenges and future of voice AI. Russ explains why voice interaction is complex, detailing the cascaded model involving speech-to-text, LLMs, and text-to-speech. They discuss the difficulties of turn detection, speaker dia...

US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll - modernizing military tech & fixing procurement

Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels - tariffs, tech, and trade

Galvanick CEO Josh Steinman - spies, stuxnet, cyber, and securing critical infrastructure

AppNexus Founder Brian O'Kelley - adtech, AI, advertising and more AI

Anduril Co-Founder Trae Stephens - Hard Tech & Modern Defense Strategy

Fmr Verisk CEO Scott Stephenson - building a $40 billion data company

Scott Stephenson, former CEO of Verisk Analytics, details the strategic evolution of the company from its origins as a non-profit industry consortium to a for-profit S&P 500 entity. The discussion centers on a five-step data playbook: acquiring proprietary data, creating industry-standard analytic objects, providing ta...

a16z’s Martin Casado - building with AI

Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise - building the operating system for advertising

Rob Henderson - Luxury Beliefs: How Elites Exploit the Poor