"World of DaaS"

RJ Pittman is the CEO of Matterport, a $1.2 billion market cap spatial data and 3D capture company. 

RJ and Auren discuss the mechanics of bringing real estate, an “offline” asset class, into the 21st…

Mark Penn is the CEO of Stagwell and a longtime pollster and strategic advisor. He’s a former senior executive at Microsoft and has advised politicians including Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.

Mark and …

Christopher Ahlberg is the founder and CEO of Recorded Future, a cyberintelligence firm that sold for $780 million in 2019. He formerly co-founded the business intelligence software company Spotfire.…

Terry Kawaja is the founder and CEO of Luma Partners, a media and technology investment bank. Terry has advised on over $300 billion in transactions, including some of the biggest deals in media, tec…

Sheila Heen is the Deputy Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and the bestselling author of Difficult Conversations. She’s an internationally recognized negotiation coach and trainer. 

Sheila …

Cindy Cohn is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the largest digital rights organization in the world. 

In this wide ranging conversation, Cindy and Auren touch on a number …

Neal Katyal is a professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University, a partner at Hogan Lovells law firm, and the former Acting Solicitor General. He has argued 45 cases before the Supreme C…

David Epstein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “Range” and “The Sports Gene”.  

Auren and David discuss David’s latest book Range and his counterintuitive ideas about specialization and…

Rob Buxton is a partner at AGC Partners where he specializes in the DaaS and SaaS capital markets.  Rob has completed over 300 financings and M&A transactions in his career. 

Rob and Auren dive into t…

Gary Marcus is the Author of Reboot AI and professor at NYU. 

Gary and Auren discuss the advancements in and shortcomings of artificial intelligence. They dive into how for AI to be really good, it ne…

Or Offer is Co-Founder and CEO of Similarweb (ticker: SMWB), a digital intelligence data company. 

Auren and Or dive into how data businesses actually work. They explore the problems every data compan…

Antonio Garcia Martinez is the NYT best selling author of Chaos Monkeys. He is a senior fellow at the Lincoln Network. Previously, he was the founder of AdGrok and formerly a product manager at Faceb…

Liv Boeree is a former world poker champion, a science commentator and content creator, and a philanthropist.  

Auren and Liv dive into a broad range of topics including poker, probability, societal p…

Jeremy Stanley is Founder and CTO at Anomalo. Previously, he was VP of Data Science at Instacart. 

Auren and Jeremy dive into progress in the artificial intelligence field over the past decade and why…

Ryan Breslow is the Chairman at Bolt, a decacorn online checkout startup.  

While he’s built one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley, Ryan Breslow is perhaps most famous for his twitter …

Glenn Fogel is CEO at Booking Holdings, a juggernaut in the travel industry. Glenn has a remarkable track record of completing successful acquisitions.

Auren and Glenn dive into the common pitfalls of…

This episode is a rebroadcast of Auren's appearance on The Data Scientist Show.  Auren and Daliana dive into the nuts and bolts of building a geospatial DaaS business. 

Daliana Liu is a senior data sc…

Barry Nalebuff is the author of Split the Pie, co-founder of Honest Tea and professor of negotiations at Yale. 

A big part of the problem with most negotiations is that the parties don’t spend enough …

Dr. Joel Myers is the founder and CEO of AccuWeather, one of the oldest weather companies in the world. 

Weather companies are really data companies at their core. Joel and Auren dive into the early d…

Charlie is co-founder and CEO of Sezzle, a $1.2 billion market cap alternative payment platform.

Charlie and Auren dive into the unit economics of Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) businesses, why the “crediti…