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Summation with Auren Hoffman

Summation with Auren Hoffman

Protege CEO Bobby Samuels on the data nobody has unlocked yet

Oct 13, 2026 · 1h 8m

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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 airlineWhy synthetic data has been "18...