Podcast Episodes

Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell - predicting acquisitions, value of data, AI

Episode 198

Jager McConnell is the CEO of Crunchbase, a leading business intelligence platform for startup and investment data, serving over 80 million users.

In this episode of World of DaaS, Jager and Auren dis…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

LiveKit CEO Russ d'Sa - voice AI and the future of human-machine interaction

Episode 197

Russ d'Sa is the founder and CEO of LiveKit, the infrastructure company powering real-time voice for OpenAI's ChatGPT, Character.ai, and numerous AI applications.

In this episode of World of DaaS, Rus…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll - modernizing military tech & fixing procurement

Episode 196

Dan Driscoll is the current Secretary of the U.S. Army, overseeing a military branch with approximately one million soldiers, 250,000 civilians, and an annual budget of $185 billion.

In this episode o…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels - tariffs, tech, and trade

Episode 195

Brandon Daniels is the CEO of Exiger, which provides AI-powered supply chain and third-party risk management solutions to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Exiger has annual revenues of …

Published on 4 months ago

Galvanick CEO Josh Steinman - spies, stuxnet, cyber, and securing critical infrastructure

Episode 194

Joshua Steinman is the co-founder and CEO of Galvanick, a cybersecurity company building tools to secure industrial infrastructure and AI systems.

In this episode of World of DaaS, Joshua and Auren di…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

AppNexus Founder Brian O'Kelley - adtech, AI, advertising and more AI

Episode 193

Brian O'Kelley is the co-founder and former CEO of AppNexus, which built core infrastructure for programmatic advertising and was acquired by AT&T for $1.6 billion in 2018. He's now the co-founder an…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Anduril Co-Founder Trae Stephens - Hard Tech & Modern Defense Strategy

Episode 192

Trae Stephens is a partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and current executive chairman at Anduril, a defense technology company that produces software-defined, hardware-enabled major weapons progr…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Fmr Verisk CEO Scott Stephenson - building a $40 billion data company

Episode 191

Scott Stephenson is the former Chairman, President, and CEO of Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ: VRSK), where he led the company's transformation from a nonprofit insurance data collective into a global data…

Published on 5 months ago

a16z’s Martin Casado - building with AI

Episode 190

Martin Casado is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on AI and infrastructure investments. He previously co-founded Nicira which was acquired by VMware for $1.2 billion …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise - building the operating system for advertising

Episode 189

Bill Wise is the CEO and co-founder of Mediaocean, an adtech platform that processes over $200 billion in global media spend annually.

In this episode of World of DaaS, Bill and Auren discuss:

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago