Summation with Auren Hoffman
Protege CEO Bobby Samuels on the data nobody has unlocked yet
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Bobby Samuels is the co-founder and CEO of Protege, a platform that licenses real-world data from industries like healthcare and media to companies building AI. Protege has raised $65 million from Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, and Flex Capital. Before Protege, Bobby led partnerships at LiveRamp and ran Privacy Hub at Datavant.
In this episode of Summation, Bobby and Auren discuss:
The auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, and what a model learns from a failed airline
Why synthetic data has been "18 months away" for six years
Why every data pitch deck with "hedge funds" on the customer slide is wrong
The genome as the most valuable dataset nobody has unlocked
Why the smartest buyers are the easiest ones to sell to
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Bobby Samuels on Linkedin
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