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).

Summation with Auren Hoffman is a technology podcast hosted by Auren Hoffman, with 280 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Auren Hoffman hosts Summation with Auren Hoffman, a technology show with 280 episodes published.

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  Fmr. Senator Cory Gardner: why the AI race is won on boring infrastructure and how China wins by making America hate AI

  Aug 18, 202654 min

  Cory Gardner is a former U.S. Senator and Congressman from Colorado and was one of the Senate's leading Taiwan and China experts, chairing the Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia and authoring the Taipei Act. He is now president and CEO of NCTA, the Internet & Television Association, whose members built the nation's largest broadband platform. In this episode of Summation, Cory and Auren discuss: Why the AI race gets won on spectrum, fiber, and memory chips The bottleneck raising the price of your iPhone, PlayStation, and router Why an open society is vulnerable to a campaign to turn Americans against AI What a China expert thinks about our dependence on chips made off China's coast You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Cory Gardner on X at @CoryGardner

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  CodeRabbit CEO Harjot Gill on software's new bottleneck and zero to $50m ARR in 2 years

  Aug 11, 202655 min

  Harjot Gill is the co-founder and CEO of CodeRabbit, the AI code review company that became the most installed AI app on GitHub and GitLab. Over about two years, CodeRabbit went from zero to over $50M in ARR and a $1B+ valuation. It is his third startup. In this episode of Summation, Harjot and Auren discuss: Why the bottleneck in software just moved from writing code to reviewing it Why mature companies now adopt AI first Why you should never let a coding agent review its own work The playbook that took CodeRabbit from zero to $50M+ in two years You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Harjot Gill on X at @harjotsgill

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  Moritz Baier-Lentz on why the future of AI runs on video games

  Aug 4, 20261h 5m

  Moritz Baier-Lentz is one of the foremost investors in gaming, AI, and frontier technologies—including companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Palantir, Etched, Decart, and Recursive. He founded Goldman Sachs's global gaming practice and was previously a partner, IC member, and head of gaming at Lightspeed. Moritz is part of the founding team of General Intuition, an AI research lab training agents on video game data, which has raised a $133M Seed round and a $320M Series A. He is also a senior advisor to OpenAI, McKinsey & Co., and TPG Capital. In this episode of Summation, Moritz and Auren discuss: Why video games are the best data set for the next phase of AI The idea that humans only truly learn during play Why Germany's fear of risk is cultural Getting into Stanford with an essay about Diablo II You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Moritz Baier-Lentz on LinkedIn or his website .

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  OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji: measuring the greatest technology of our time

  Jul 28, 202657 min

  Ronnie Chatterji is the Chief Economist at OpenAI, where he leads research on how AI reshapes growth, jobs, and the economy. He is also an economics professor at Duke. He was previously the White House CHIPS coordinator implementing the $52B CHIPS Act, and before that the chief economist at the US Department of Commerce. In this episode of Summation, Ronnie and Auren discuss: The three things people actually do with ChatGPT The 10x jump in people handing their work to AI Why the next big leap in AI is adoption and not capability The case that AI could cause a population boom You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Ronnie Chatterji on X at @RonnieChatterji

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  Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: why AI wins a Nobel before a Pulitzer

  Jul 21, 20261h 7m

  Felix Rieseberg leads engineering for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic. Before that he led desktop and web infrastructure at Notion and built software at Stripe, Slack, and Microsoft. In this episode of Summation, Felix and Auren discuss: The next AI step function: going from solving a problem to owning a responsibility Why AI will win many Nobel prizes before it wins a single Pulitzer Bringing AI into the physical world, from a $30 coffee-machine display to a Wi-Fi garage opener Why "here's what your team can learn from the Navy SEALs" is bad management advice You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Felix Rieseberg on X at @felixrieseberg

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