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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).
Topics: Technology , Business , Entrepreneurship
Transcribe the entire archive
Fetch every episode as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script:
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://spoken.md/podcasts/1570644971/episodes \
| jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
| while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
[ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
-o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id
sleep 0.34
done
Each episode costs 1 credit. Already-saved files are skipped — safe to re-run after a top-up.
Example Transcripts
Short-seller Carson Block: a fugitive CEO, Libyan spies, and $50B fraud June 30, 2026
Facet CEO Anders Jones on the biggest heist in finance, how advisors really sell permission, and the great boomer wealth transfer June 23, 2026
Charles Duhigg on the writing AI can't touch, what GLP-1s really do to your brain, and the serendipity tax June 16, 2026
SignalFire CEO Chris Farmer on why venture funds now last 20 years and the hiring boom behind the layoffs June 9, 2026
Retired 4-star General John Allen on Iran, AI hyperwar, and Taiwan’s future March 17, 2026
Adrian Aoun on healthcare as a product, Apple's AI problem, and why you should have kids now March 10, 2026
Tod Sacerdoti (Flex GP and Pipedream CEO) on seed at scale and SaaS mispricing March 3, 2026
Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on bowling alone, AI bots, and why the heartland is happier than the coasts February 24, 2026
Lt. General Mike Fenzel (Ret.) on bad data, bad experts, and why we can’t exit wars February 17, 2026
Martin Shkreli on prison, beating Bloomberg, and being hated February 11, 2026
World of DaaS is now Summation February 9, 2026
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth - The $30 Trillion Knowledge Work Market, Training Frontier AI Models and Building Stage Five Culture February 3, 2026
Chapter CEO Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz - medicare complexity, $100B fraud and how tech can fix it January 27, 2026
Industry Ventures Founder Hans Swildens - how secondaries became the dominant path for VC exits January 20, 2026
Mark Pincus - Product Instincts: “Proven, Better, New” January 28, 2025
Sarah Tavel, Benchmark Capital GP: Selling Work in SaaS February 27, 2024
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https://spoken.md/transcripts/{episodeId}
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