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If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Mike Dupree is the Chief Revenue Officer at Teads where he oversees the commercial organization, including field sales, agency partnerships and strategic sales initiatives. Mike joined Teads after spending nearly 10 years at Twitter / X where he was leading the bra...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Bryan Barletta is the founder of Sounds Profitable, a trade association for the podcast industry. As a seasoned professional with over 16 years in the advertising and technology space, Barletta played a key role in the world’s first shakeable ad in 2009 and held le...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Brian Quinn is the President and GM of North America at AppsFlyer. Brian has over 15 years of experience in sales leadership and business development—scaling revenue, building high performing growth teams, & executing go-to-market strategies in a variety of int...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Daniel Tejada is Co-founder and Chief Learning Office at Straight Up Growth, the Amazon agency that has nearly $750M in Amazon sales. Daniel was one of the first people to start advertising on Amazon and has since become a global leader in Amazon ads and sales stra...

This episode is brought to you by Market. Use AI to chat directly with your marketing and sales channels to get the answers you need to grow your business. Sign-up for Market at https://www.withmarket.ai/.  ——— Garrett Rothstein is the founder and CEO of Queue, an app that helps user keep track of all the content across streaming services and queue movies and shows to watch. Hear Garrett’s story g...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Michael Cassidy is an entrepreneur who has started and exited multiple companies, including founding and serving as Undertone CEO for 14 years (acquired by Perion). Hear his journey from the early 2000’s of tech (the wild west!), to exiting, then creating a family...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Alex Kantrowitz is an independent journalist that started Big Technology, which has more than 150K newsletter subscribers and is a top 10 tech podcast with more than 1M annual downloads. He jumped on the Taking Inventory podcast to discuss all things AI, from how f...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Geoffrey Reed is the COO of Floor 84, a digital game and experience studio that that works with brands like the NBA, Disney, Mattel, Lego, and more. Geoff has a stacked background as a lawyer, McKinsey consultant, strategy at Mattel, strategy at Snap, and now COO....

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Sunil Rayan is the Chief Business Officer at Moloco, one of the leading mobile DSPs for many years and more recently a leading Retail Media platform and CTV platform. Sunil's background is uniquely fit for Moloco having served as President and Head of Disney+ Hotst...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast.  ——— Alex Collmer is co-founder and CEO of VidMob, the leading AI creative performance platform for marketers. The company has raised over $200M to date from investors like Adobe, Shutterstock, Shamrock Capital, DraftKings, and others. Listen to our conversation with Al...

This episode is brought to you by Market. Use AI to chat directly with your marketing and sales channels to get the answers you need to grow your business. Sign-up for Market at https://www.withmarket.ai/.  ——— Ellis was Snapchat’s first writer, building and refining the brand voice and executing it across all channels — from marketing campaigns to press pitches, UX writing, sales narratives, prod...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating and review. It’s the best way to help support ——— Per Sandell is the VP of Product Management at Spotify, which generated $14B+ of revenue last year. He’s leading the development and growth of its ads business. Per has a history of building performant ads systems, having helped build Snap’s ads API, self-service ad tools, and...

This episode is brought to you by Market. Use AI to chat directly with your marketing and sales channels to get the answers you need to grow your business. Sign-up for Market at https://www.withmarket.ai/.  ——— Eric rejoins the podcast to discus the state of the digital economy. He covers why walled gardens are winning, the existential threats to open web, EU's battle against big tech, TikTok bann...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating and review. It’s the best way to help support ——— Harry Dixon and Rory Garton-Smith are co-founders (2 of 3) of Checkmate, the app that unlocks savings at over 50,000 online stores. During our conversation Harry and Rory share what they saw happening in retail that gave them the realization that online shopping is broken. They...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating and review. It’s the best way to help support ——— Shachar Scott is the VP of Marketing at Meta Reality Labs. She’s led marketing for some of the most transformative businesses in tech including at Apple, Snap, Bumble, and now Meta. Listen to our conversation with Shachar as she discusses augmented and mixed reality, the import...

James and Daniel sit down with Fred Krueger, renowned Bitcoin analyst and someone who has years of experience in tech and on wall street, to chat about the recent surge in the price of Bitcoin. Fred explains why he's so bullish on the Bitcoin, examples in history of what we're witnessing, and what the future holds.  Follow Fred on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotkrueger   Connect with James and Da...

In this new series we talk to founders that are part of the growing "Snap Mafia", former Snap employees that turned in their corporate badges to become entrepreneurs. These are the inside stories of working at Snap, their journey to become founders, and the companies that they're building to disrupt industries.   Connect with James and Daniel! LinkedIn: James: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesboro...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating and review. It’s the best way to help support ——— Rob Leathern is a respected data and privacy expert. He was most recently at Google as the VP of Product Management leading privacy and security product teams. Prior to that he led the Business Integrity product team at Facebook. He recently founded Trust2ai where he is CEO. Ro...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating and review. It’s the best way to help support ——— Nick Bell, CEO of Fanatics Live, has made a career out of understanding and tapping into the ‘Attention Economy’. He transformed News Corp’s digital media business, changed how people watch content by launching new media at Snap, and led product for the world’s most visited sit...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating and review. It’s the best way to help support us! ——— Steve Gatena and his co-founders have built Pray.com into one of the biggest platforms for and prayer and the #1 App for Daily Prayer and Bedtime Bible Stories. They’re now expanding on their mission through the use of ads – a unique experience that pairs religion with adve...

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating and review. It’s the best way to help support us! ——— Amazon had another blowout quarter (Q4) reporting $14.7M of ad revenue and exceeding every analysts’ expectations. Despite being one of the fastest growing ads businesses, it’s still one of the most misunderstood. We brought in Adam Epstein, former President of Perpetua, on...

Rate and subscribe to Taking Inventory wherever you listen to the podcast and don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter. ——— This week on Taking Inventory we were joined by Tyler Denk, CEO and Co-founder of Beehiiv, the newsletter platform built for growth. Tyler helped build many of the early growth tools and strategies at Morning Brew and is now making those available to all creators through B...

Don’t forget to rate and subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen – we appreciate all of your support! ——— This week on Taking Inventory we welcome renowned tech reported, Alex Heath. Alex shares his path from iPhone blogging as a 15-year old to interviewing the most powerful names in tech. He talks about what it’s like to cover leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk and what...

In this week's episode we cover our highlights from CES and we interview Katie Stratton, the first-ever Chief Growth Officer of retail technology company, Shipt. She discusses her journey from Meta to Shipt and how Shipt's unique consumer services feeds into their media solution for advertisers. Katie shares insights into Shipt’s evolution of retail media platforms, discusses how the customer jour...

John Sutton is the Co-Founder of Mansion Group, a PropTech meets FinTech company focused on building the next great hospitality brand. Prior to founding Mansion Group, John spent 12 years with Red Ventures most recently as President and Chief Digital Officer. Red Ventures is likely the biggest media company that most people have never heard of, but they tout brands such as BankRate, The Points Guy...