Aditi shows how five honest conversations can reshape how you read data, because customer language carries context that numbers miss. She points to overlooked signals like product usage trails, community chatter, sales recordings, and event conversations, then explains how to turn them into action through a simple pipeline of capture, tag, route, track, and activate. More
188: Rebecca Corliss: Why lifecycle marketers will thrive in the agentic marketing org
Rebecca imagines a future marketing org built on three layers: leadership fluent in data and AI, a dispatch control tower staffed by engineers and privacy experts, and pods that design customer journeys while agents handle scale. More
187: John Saunders: Building the ultimate operating engine for a modern agency
Agencies are drowning in tools, dashboards, and AI gimmicks, but John Saunders has spent years building something that actually works. Nova started as an internal fix and grew into an operating system that strips away noise, delivers context with every number, and gives AI a cockpit filled with real operational data.More
186: Olga Andrienko: Ex-VP at Semrush left her 35-person brand team to build AI for marketing ops
Olga thought she was ahead of the AI curve, but a weekend course on autonomous systems showed her she was thinking too small. She pitched a shared internal AI stack at Semrush, built systems off APIs, skipped procurement by using already-approved tools, and tracked hours saved instead of promising vague ROI.More
185: Jonathan Kazarian: Platforms vs point solutions and the marketing operator’s dilemma
Jonathan framed point solutions as late-night distractions, while Phil argued they solve real constraints platforms can’t touch. Darrell pulled the lens to data models and warehouse-native teams lean on composability for speed and control. We also cover costs, support, documentation, integrations and more!More
184: Nadia Davis: How to decide if attribution data is good enough to guide strategy
Nadia learned early that attribution keeps you in business, proving to executives why the budget, the team, and the work matter. Seeing “attribution is dead” posts, she built her Attribution Periodic Table to show data modeling, measurement rules, and cross-team alignment as one connected system.More
183: Kevin White: Building a super IC role to escape management burnout and fixing the broken promise of AI SDRs
Kevin rebuilt his career around the work that fuels him. After years leading teams at Segment, Retool and Common Room, he walked away from politics and board decks to create a “super IC” role focused on experiments, product evangelism, and hands‑on growth. He applies that same mindset to go‑to‑market: strip out the bloat, ditch templated outreach, and use real buyer behavior to build small, personal campaigns.More
182: Simon Lejeune: Wealthsimple’s VP of Growth on 2 keys to be a top 5% marketer
Simon Lejeune learned early that chasing small wins keeps growth teams stuck, a lesson that landed hard when Hopper’s CEO dismissed his price‑point test as a “local maximum” and pushed him toward ideas bold enough to reshape the business. That experience drives how he leads at Wealthsimple, where he tells teams to stop polishing the same hill and start climbing new mountains.More
181: Alison Albeck Lindland: Climb the AI literacy pyramid and stand out as a customer‑first marketer
Alison believes marketing careers thrive when you stay close to the people who buy from you, and at Movable Ink she has built that into the culture with a customer strategy team, advisory boards, and events that create real connections customers carry into new roles. More
180: István Mészáros: Merging web and product analytics on top of the warehouse with a zero-copy architecture
István built a warehouse-native analytics layer that lets teams define metrics once, query them directly, and skip the messy syncs across five tools trying to guess what “active user” means. Instead of fighting over numbers, teams walk through SQL together, clean up logic, and move faster.More