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Auren Hoffman

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CEO, @SafeGraph. GP, @FlexCapital. fmr CEO, @LiveRamp. loves: crazy ideas, weirdos, and email. host: World of DaaS podcast. reading: @AurenReads, @worldofdaas

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my friend has a cool business that does $5M in revenue. i offered to buy it for $1 billion.
the fine print: $1000/year for the next million years.

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call for business: service that builds and maintains small (and efficient) language models.

customer brings the labeled data (inputs and outputs). product is the service. it is needs to be easy to add incremental data, update, and maintain.

anyone know a company like this?

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is it legal to change your birthday?
like what if you are a taurus but really identify as a sagittarius?

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do you prefer someone with High Performance and Low Values or someone with Low Performance and High Values?

The obvious best employee is someone that is high performance AND high values match. If someone is low performance AND low values match, you have an easy decision -- you…

do you prefer someone with High Performance and Low Values or someone with Low Performance and High Values? The obvious best employee is someone that is high performance AND high values match. If someone is low performance AND low values match, you have an easy decision -- you…
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historically, navies escorted their nations trade ships around and kept them safe. for the last 70 years, the US navy kept everybody safe.

today, the french navy is escorting their own ships through the red sea. maybe a sign of changing times?

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one of the hardest things for software companies is integrating with other software.

hack: build in an industry where there’s not much software yet

one of the hardest things for software companies is integrating with other software. hack: build in an industry where there’s not much software yet
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“Peter Thiel is allergic to bandwagon behavior…when sees that everyone is interested in something, he’s not interested in that.” - Ryan Petersen
being a contrarian when the rubber meets the road (AI rn) is so much harder than it looks

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“hiring from without is an impulse born out of anxiety and fear…
There's not some executives out there that are going to save you. There's no saviors. You got to solve your problem.”
- management wisdom for founders from Ryan Petersen on World of DaaS pod

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