Scott Brinker would build one deep specialty to judge AI’s confident mistakes, grow cross-functional range to bridge marketing and engineering, and lean into technical skills like SQL and APIs to turn ideas into working systems. More
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193: David Joosten: The Politics and architecture of martech transformation
David learned that martech transformation begins with proof people can feel. Early in his career, he built immaculate systems that looked impressive but delivered nothing real. Everything changed when a VP asked him to show progress instead of idealistic roadmaps. From that moment, David focused on momentum and quick wins. Those early victories turned into stories that spread across the company and built trust naturally.More
192: Angela Vega: Expedia’s Martech leader on ADHD, discernment, and the art of picking battles in martech
Angela built her ADHD tech stack as a way to survive the noise in her own head, turning distraction into design. Her workflow (Offload, Shape, Prototype, Loop, and Anchor) channels restless thought into motion through AI tools like Whisper and GPT. After her second pregnancy and a diagnosis that reframed her chaos, Angela stopped fighting her wiring and built systems that worked with it.More
155: Meg Gowell: Typeform’s full stack marketer on growth experiments, brand momentum and warehouse-native stacks
Marketing leadership in 2025 is a wild time. After years of learning martech and technical concepts to become a full stack marketer, you finally land that dream director gig… only to watch your hard-earned tech skills collect dust while you drown in meetings. Megan helps us see the way forward.More
151: Austin Hay: An operator’s guide to AI agents, composability, building in concert and self-designing APIs
Something extraordinary is brewing in the world of martech. In the near future, Austin thinks AI agents will turn into an omniscient digital butler, anticipating your needs with uncanny precision while vanishing into the background of your workday. But the real revolution unfolds in the seemingly mundane machinery of marketing operations, where innovative companies are transforming their spaghetti mess of data pipes and platforms into something approaching digital poetry. More
115: Amrita Mathur: ClickUp’s VP of Marketing on optimizing for velocity of learning and balancing analytics with intuition
Amrita digs into building a brand from scratch and blending hard data with your gut in order to spot what truly connects. It’s not about the immediate wins; it’s hunting for those less obvious cues that hint you’re on to something and always optimizing for velocity of learning over number of tests launched.More
11: Jonathan Simon: Do you still need a degree to have success in marketing?
Do you still need to do a degree out of highschool to have a successful and happy career in marketing? What are some of the best side projects students can take on to help get them jobs early on? How do you manage interns and fresh marketers? University Professor Jonathan Simon shares his insights.More
05: Lauren Sanborn: Happiness at the intersection of sales & marketing
Lauren Sanborn is a force of nature. She’s a world class marketing ops professional who’s accomplished amazing things. She’s currently Director of Revenue Operations at CallRail. More
01: Why you’re better off being an individual contributor
You don’t want to manage people and will be happier as an IC. If you still want to manage, we’ll tell you how to be a great manager.More