Auren Hoffman
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
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One of the core duties of running a startup is doing the work of a sales development rep yourself, prospecting for customers directly.
it is not in the founder handbook, but one of the main jobs of being a founder is just being a good SDR
summation.netSaid 6 Dec 2022This on korrents
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Low emotional intelligence is not unusual among CEOs and can be a serious handicap for a leader.
Being a low EQ CEO isn't totally uncommon, but it can be a severe disadvantage as a leader.
summation.netSaid 19 Oct 2022This on korrents
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One of the core duties of running a startup is doing the work of a sales development rep yourself, prospecting for customers directly.
it is not in the founder handbook, but one of the main jobs of being a founder is just being a good SDR
Five Links for December Said 6 Dec 2022
Low emotional intelligence is not unusual among CEOs and can be a serious handicap for a leader.
Being a low EQ CEO isn't totally uncommon, but it can be a severe disadvantage as a leader.
Five Links for October Said 19 Oct 2022
A company promoting its CFO to CEO is usually a bad sign for the business.
when a tech company promotes its CFO to CEO, it usually is not a good sign
Five Links for August Said 3 Aug 2022
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Smart people tend to over-value optionality and under-value commitment.
most smart people over-value optionality and under-value commitment
Five Links for July Said 6 Jul 2022
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Loved The Nurture Assumption
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Loved Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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Loved Difficult Conversations
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Loved The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
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Blog summation.net Summation, his newsletter and blog.
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- i interviewed Bobby Samuels in 2013 for his first job out of college. going back to my notes, it said “interesting conversation on the economics of horse racing.” 13 years later he runs a massive AI data company. i wish i was recording my conversations 13 years ago 15 Oct 2026
- synthetic data has been 18 months away for six years 15 Oct 2026
- new summation pod with Bobby Samuels, CEO of Protege, which licenses real-world data to the AI labs and raised $65m from a16z, CRV, and Flex Capital. we get into the Spirit Airlines data auction, why synthetic data is always 18 months away, and the dataset still locked inside your body. 13 Oct 2026 youtube.com
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- one day your driver's license will have two boxes: “donate my organs” and “donate my data”. 2nd will be more valuable. 12 Oct 2026
- moats are dead but the credit for saying moats are dead is still in dispute 12 Oct 2026
- your spare time belongs to the future. most people spend nights and weekends recovering from the week. a few spend them on the side quest that becomes a company. if that’s you (and you haven’t quit your job yet), come build with us during weekends & nights jan 9–17 outside DC. apply: 12 Oct 2026 weekendsandnights.com
- speed inflation 10 Oct 2026
- i want a service to create audiobooks for books that are not allowed to be sold to me 9 Oct 2026
- there are so many amazing french founders in San Francisco. there are more french founders in SF than in Paris. 9 Oct 2026
- airline safety videos keep getting longer. and now with celebrity cameos. i love Kevin Hart but would rather have a 1-min boring safety video than the 9-min Kevin Hart version. 8 Oct 2026
- used to have one dev-op engineer for every 20 software engineers. now the ratio might be 1:5 as devops is becoming the bottleneck and code is a plenty 7 Oct 2026
- Claude has a "verbose" setting. would love to know which INSANE people have ever clicked it. 7 Oct 2026
- writing short takes way longer than writing long 7 Oct 2026
- google needs to have more granular controls for email right now the only option is to give agents access to read ALL emails. would be great for gmail to be able to access to some emails. 7 Oct 2026
- you ask AI to write a one-line email. it writes four paragraphs. the other person asks their AI to summarize it back to one line. 6 Oct 2026
- new summation pod with @roylschwartz , co-founder of Axios and author of the new book Simplify. we get into meeting bankruptcy, why AI made everything longer, and why average is worthless now. (and pickleball!!) 6 Oct 2026 youtube.com
- is google the next IBM? tried out Google Spark (their version of Muse). this was not worthy of the Google name. it barely could do anything. why can't google play in the game? you don't need your own models (which google has). just some product sense. it is a shame because google already has the trust of so many people. if the Google own goals keep compounding, it will only be an enterprise software company going forward. 6 Oct 2026
- if you really want to sound important, convince your boss to change your title to "Secretary General" much better than VP or MD 6 Oct 2026
- used to run my entire life on zapier. now officially zapier free AI can even kill the moat of thousands of bespoke integrations 5 Oct 2026
- codex got remarkably worse for me this weekend. not sure why. anyone else experiencing quality issues with codex code? 4 Oct 2026
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