Auren Hoffman @auren
CEO, @SafeGraph. GP, @FlexCapital. fmr CEO, @LiveRamp. loves: crazy ideas, weirdos, and email. host: World of DaaS podcast. reading: @AurenReads, @worldofdaas youtube.com/@worldofdaas Arlington, VA Joined November 2006-
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can count the number of true work-a-holics i've met on my fingers. it is incredibly rare. the problem isn't that people work too hard ... it is that they do not work hard enough.
with all these Poland remarks -- do you think tourism to Warsaw will go up? never been to Poland but thinking of going there this summer. any tips?
so I don't understand how grip strength is predictive of anything. Everyone says grip strength is going to be the thing that allows you to live super long. It just doesn't make sense to me. Like, how is it? Like some 90 year old is like going after a terrorist and has to like…
the “unicorn person” Greg Isenberg tries to hire to run his holdco businesses: * Operator who understands capital allocation * Has a history of building zero to one * Understanding of content - gone viral at least once
“CEO is the worst job at the company. The best job is cofounder. More equity than any employee, less responsibility than a CEO” - wisdom from @gregisenberg on World of DaaS CEO founders are very weird people and NOT for everyone. More people should aspire to be cofounders.
The studio/incubator model is famously difficult to make successful. What makes studios work, according to Greg Isenberg: * Not taking vc money * Having a distribution plan/advantages * Media arm (YC → hacker news)
In the last decade, building hype and having a media presence was extremely important for startup founders (helped w raising money and getting customers). a lot of the best founders in the next decade won’t get famous bc they don’t have to, and they won’t want to
with AI and low code tools, VC funding isn’t mandatory anymore. lots of businesses can (and should) bootstrap. so when should you still consider VC? @gregisenberg: “If you have a lot of people rooting against you (eg uber), it’s helpful to have billionaire investors backing…
#ICYMI, Assistant Secretary Harris joined @auren during the @worldofdaas Summit and addressed an audience of business leaders on the Biden-Harris Administration’s priorities on #dataprivacy, #crossborderdataflows, and #artificialintelligence. trade.gov/artificial-int…
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313K Followers 4K Following Co-founder of Boundless 🌍 Former Head of Speechwriting at 🇮🇱 Mission to UN. Author. Speaker. Write on.@auren @joshelman Without packets we lose the finest scene in Sopranos (Pine Barrens) youtu.be/pOYKTjXY1EQ?si…
@auren PCAP (pro-condiment, anti-packet)
@auren The only soy sauce worth consuming in the only container worth consuming it from
I recently ate sushi from a food truck. They hand me my order. "Is there soy sauce in there?" They assured me yes, there was. I sit down to eat my sushi & there were TWO soy sauce packets for an entire sashimi plate. And it was the low sodium kind! Yeah packets suck.
Packets are a conspiracy of dentists and dry cleaners — I despise them I’m a lover … but I hate packets. No, not Internet packets that make TCP/IP go … I like those. I despise the packets that hold condiments. We should outlaw them immediately and jail the inventor. Let’s…
There are a lot of meaningful topics getting debated that are controversial right now. It is nice to see such an obvious, clean one that requires no debate. Condiment Packets are terrible
Packets are a conspiracy of dentists and dry cleaners — I despise them I’m a lover … but I hate packets. No, not Internet packets that make TCP/IP go … I like those. I despise the packets that hold condiments. We should outlaw them immediately and jail the inventor. Let’s…
@auren I appreciate the Curb Your Enthusiasm energy that went into this
@auren if you replace "people" with "key employees at ambitious companies" i agree
Me when I’ve given my toddler 17 chances to go up to his room and get ready for bedtime
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i’ve been first money in two startups. both are dead now.
@auren yeah so insane to think about how cold emails turned some people's life altogether.
@auren So say we all ... used to write 10K and read 100K per year when going full blast. Easily the best for managing, sync'ing via async, tasking, following, etc., especially when paired with sync comms like Slack, meetings, etc.
@auren It's demise has been predicted about 2,000 times over my career
@auren Bunch of my Ukrainian colleagues live in Krakov and say it’s really nice. I’d like to visit there as well.