Summation with Auren Hoffman

Nir Eyal is the author of Hooked, which became Silicon Valley's playbook for building habit-forming products, Indistractable, on taking your attention back, and the new book Beyond Belief. He taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and is one of the sharpest thinkers on what to do with technology.
In this episode of Summation, Nir and Auren discuss:
Why to-do lists set you up to feel like a failure and what to do instead
Why 90% of the time you check your phone, it's an uncomfortable emotion, not a notification
Why beliefs are tools, not truths, and how swapping one can end your suffering
Why this is the safest generation of kids in history and still gets a moral panic
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Nir Eyal on X at @nireyal

Geoff Mattson is the CEO of SecureAuth, an identity security company that has raised over $200M and protects more than 50 million identities for enterprises. Before SecureAuth he was CEO of Xage Security. His work now centers on how you prove an AI agent is who it says it is.
In this episode of Summation, Geoff and Auren discuss:
Why an AI agent is like an Uber driver who might randomly turn into a psycho killer
The deepfake fraudpocalypse, and the simplest thing that defends against it
Why your agent impersonates you instead of working for you and how to fix it
Why the password is finally, actually dying
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Geoff on Linkedin

Cory Gardner is a former U.S. Senator and Congressman from Colorado and was one of the Senate's leading Taiwan and China experts, chairing the Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia and authoring the Taipei Act. He is now president and CEO of NCTA, the Internet & Television Association, whose members built the nation's largest broadband platform.
In this episode of Summation, Cory and Auren discuss:
Why the AI race gets won on spectrum, fiber, and memory chips
The bottleneck raising the price of your iPhone, PlayStation, and router
Why an open society is vulnerable to a campaign to turn Americans against AI
What a China expert thinks about our dependence on chips made off China's coast
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Cory Gardner on X at @CoryGardner

Harjot Gill is the co-founder and CEO of CodeRabbit, the AI code review company that became the most installed AI app on GitHub and GitLab. Over about two years, CodeRabbit went from zero to over $50M in ARR and a $1B+ valuation. It is his third startup.
In this episode of Summation, Harjot and Auren discuss:
Why the bottleneck in software just moved from writing code to reviewing it
Why mature companies now adopt AI first
Why you should never let a coding agent review its own work
The playbook that took CodeRabbit from zero to $50M+ in two years
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Harjot Gill on X at @harjotsgill

Moritz Baier-Lentz is one of the foremost investors in gaming, AI, and frontier technologies—including companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Palantir, Etched, Decart, and Recursive. He founded Goldman Sachs's global gaming practice and was previously a partner, IC member, and head of gaming at Lightspeed. Moritz is part of the founding team of General Intuition, an AI research lab training agents on video game data, which has raised a $133M Seed round and a $320M Series A. He is also a senior advisor to OpenAI, McKinsey & Co., and TPG Capital.
In this episode of Summation, Moritz and Auren discuss:
Why video games are the best data set for the next phase of AI
The idea that humans only truly learn during play
Why Germany's fear of risk is cultural
Getting into Stanford with an essay about Diablo II
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Moritz Baier-Lentz on LinkedIn or his website.