Max Marchione is the founder and President of Superpower, a digital healthcare platform that recently raised a $30 million Series A to make preventative and personalized medicine accessible to consumers.

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

• Billionaire-level health protocols and testing
• Why AI will replace expensive doctors
• Peptides, toxins, and human enhancement
• The future of personalized medicine

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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 discuss:

• The polarized venture funding landscape
• Why 'religion' beats 'truth' in data companies
• Finding defensible moats in the AI era
• Predicting acquisition targets at scale

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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, Russ and Auren discuss:

• The evolution of voice AI
• Turn detection and conversational dynamics
• Real-time infrastructure for AI
• Copilots vs autopilots for the future

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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 of World of DaaS, Dan and Auren discuss:

• The Army Transformation Initiative
• Rapid defense innovation with Silicon Valley
• Modernizing obsolete military equipment
• Fixing Pentagon procurement 

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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 over $150 million and received a majority investment by Carlyle, Insight Partners, and JMI Equity for $1.2 billion in 2023.

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

• Tariffs and supply chain chaos
• Bringing manufacturing back to the US
• Data validation in supply chain monitoring
• Countries most vulnerable to China's influence

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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 discuss:

• Foreign spies in tech companies
• Vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure
• Lessons from Stuxnet and Ukraine
• Building resilience against cyber threats

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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 and CEO of Scope3, a company working to reduce the carbon footprint in digital advertising.

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

• The zero-sum game of auction paradigms
• AI tools revolutionizing software development
• Building personal brands in tech
• Climate tech's shifting business case

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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 programs.

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

• Revolutionizing defense technology manufacturing
• Billionaire founders in defense tech
• Supply chain resilience for military hardware
• Technology's impact on modern relationships

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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 analytics powerhouse with a market cap of over $40 billion.

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

• Data monetization and defensibility strategies
• AI's impact on data businesses
• Leadership succession in data companies
• Effective board membership

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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 in 2012.

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

• Economics of open source AI
• Chinese AI innovation with DeepSeek
• Model collapse and data moats
• Regulatory challenges in AI

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