Protege CEO Bobby Samuels on the data nobody has unlocked yet

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