Mario Gabriele is the founder of The Generalist, a tech analysis substack with over 132,000 subscribers. Mario also runs Generalist Capital, which invests in early stage companies. 

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

• Why 70-80% of VCs destroy value
• The rise of mullet capitalism
• Navigating secondary sales in venture

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Annie Duke is a former World Series of Poker champion, bestselling author of Thinking in Bets and Quit, and decision science expert who advises Fortune 500 companies on strategic decision-making.

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

• Cognitive biases in venture capital
• Loss aversion and mental accounting
• One-way versus two-way doors
• Reading people in poker and business

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Deven Parekh is Managing Director at Insight Partners, a global software investment firm with over $90B in assets under management. Since joining in 2000, he has led investments in companies including Twitter, DocuSign, Alibaba, and JD.com.

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

• Why gross retention beats net retention
• AI adoption vs previous tech cycles
• European tech's struggle to match US
• Board decks that actually work

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Tim Vanderhook is the co-founder and CEO of Viant Technology (NASDAQ: DSP), a leading advertising technology company that went public in 2021 at a $2.5B valuation.

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

• The trillion dollar advertising market opportunity
• Why linear TV is massively undervalued
• The explosive growth of streaming audio
• Fighting fraud in modern ad tech

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Rajeev Goel is the co-founder and CEO of PubMatic (NASDAQ: PUBM), a sell-side advertising platform that processes over 780 billion ad impressions daily.

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

• Building private cloud infrastructure for ad tech
• Processing 780 billion daily ad impressions
• The rise of retail media networks
• Political advertising in Connected TV

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Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga, which developed some of the most popular mobile games of all time like Farmville and Words With Friends. He currently runs Reinvent Capital and teaches product management at Stanford University. 

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

• Why games predict the future of tech
• Building on platforms like Facebook
• The economics of virtual goods
• Product frameworks for the AI era

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Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO of Taboola (NASDAQ: TBLA), a content discovery platform that powers recommendations for Apple News, Yahoo, and other major publishers, reaching over 500 million daily active users.

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

• The war for internet user attention
• Why Apple and Amazon are becoming ad companies
• Building a discovery engine for the internet
• The future of AI-powered advertising

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Mark Zagorski is the CEO of DoubleVerify (NYSE: DV), a $3.4B market cap company that provides digital media measurement and verification software to major advertisers and platforms.

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

• The $100B digital ad fraud economy
• Why marketing data is wrong but works
• The death of cookies and what's next
• Building sustainable independent adtech companies

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Farley Mesko is the CEO and co-founder of Sayari, a financial intelligence and supply chain risk platform that serves major financial institutions, government agencies, and corporations.

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

• How geopolitics are reshaping global supply chains
• The evolution of financial crime networks
• Building data products for government agencies
• Why entity resolution is the future of intelligence

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Michael Barrett is the CEO of Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the largest independent sell-side advertising platform with a market cap of over $2.2 billion.

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

• The $200B shift from linear TV to streaming
• How retail media networks are reshaping advertising
• Big Tech's dominance in digital advertising
• How AI will change programmatic advertising

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