In October 1999, serial entrepreneur Mark Cuban set the Guiness world record for the single largest ecommerce transaction of all time. His purchase? A luxurious $40 million dollar private jet. This event caused many to speculate that the internet would eventually make salespeople obsolete altogether. Two decades later, the increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence is…
Read moreBefore she founded the category-creating attribution software Full Circle Insights and before she was CMO at Campaign Monitor, Andrea Wildt was a print-maker. She spent her days designing and transferring intricate patterns onto silk, paper, and wood. It was exactly this sort of forethought and meticulous coordination of disparate systems that primed Andrea to thrive…
Read moreWhat do you remember most about the last live theatre show you saw? If you’re like most people, it was likely one ultra-compelling actor, or a song that was stuck in your head for days after. You probably didn’t think of the stage manager once. If they do their job perfectly, you’ll never know they…
Read moreEvery day I see another SaaS app go ‘must-have’ viral and I wonder how long the center can hold. When the average midsize startup uses 123 SaaS tools (enterprises use thousands) and 78 percent of organizations are increasing their spend on cloud services, all I can think about are all those messy connections and what…
Read moreAmy Palmer’s path to marketing leadership was an unconventional one. After four years investigating police misconduct in NYC, she did a stint as a manuscript editor and earned a master’s degree in anthropology before transitioning into demand generation marketing. Today as Head of Revenue Marketing at Autodesk Construction Solutions, Amy attributes her success to her…
Read moreIn a time when 56% of people claim that “data-driven” is merely a slogan at their companies, leaders like Chandar Pattabhiram are a rare breed. His commitment to regular testing goes far beyond just lip service. With an egoless stance, he’s just as delighted when the data proves his hypotheses wrong as right—because he knows…
Read moreI was on a Zoom call recently discussing data integrity issues with a revenue operations leader when I peered out the window and noticed a car sputtering by. It was held together with a generous supply of duct tape, its bumper threatening to dislodge on the road at any moment. Suddenly it hit me that…
Read moreWhen asked what the most impactful book she’s read this year was, Lorena Morales, VP of Marketing at Go Nimbly, responded without skipping a beat: Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. “Hypergrowth companies in Silicon Valley have been obsessed with the buzzword ‘resilience’ recently,” she explained. “But Taleb’s thinking radically challenges this mindset. He says, ‘Wait a…
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