Summation with Auren Hoffman

Protege CEO Bobby Samuels on why synthetic data is always 18 months away, what an AI learns from a failed airline, and the data nobody has unlocked yet

Axios Co-founder Roy Schwartz: why average is worthless now

Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion finally works

Alex Rampell on why the best companies have hostages, not customers

The enduring dominance of the Visa and MasterCard duopoly stems from a "chaotic" network effect that creates an impregnable intermediary layer between banks and merchants. While these networks function as transaction processors, they operate as sophisticated product designers that align incentives across the entire fin...

Life360 founder Chris Hulls on existential amusement and why public markets kill bold bets

Felicis Founder Aydin Senkut: why moats are dead and alive

Nir Eyal on belief, motivation, and the end of suffering

Nir Eyal on belief, motivation, and the end of suffering

SecureAuth CEO Geoff Mattson on the coming fraudpocalypse and the death of the password

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

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

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

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

AI adoption is shifting from simple chatbot interactions to agentic workflows, where users delegate complex, multi-hour tasks to models like Codex. This transition, marked by a 10x increase in full-workday task delegation, highlights the necessity of organizational governance and human leadership in integrating AI effe...

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

Fifth Wall CEO Brendan Wallace: the data center land grab and the most stable asset on earth you still can't buy

Striveworks CEO Jim Rebesco on drone swarms, AI for warfighters, and the end of air superiority

Short-seller Carson Block: a fugitive CEO, Libyan spies, and $50B fraud

Facet CEO Anders Jones on the biggest heist in finance, how advisors really sell permission, and the great boomer wealth transfer

Charles Duhigg on the writing AI can't touch, what GLP-1s really do to your brain, and the serendipity tax

SignalFire CEO Chris Farmer on why venture funds now last 20 years and the hiring boom behind the layoffs