andymonfried

Founder of Lotame, acquired by Publicis, March 2025. NYC based. The journey is the prize. Views are my own.

I march to the beat of my own jam.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

“The journey is the prize.”

The concept of, “Built to Last” in the evolving Technology ecosystem, is an incredible and humbling team accomplishment.

Truth is, I’ve worked alongside some of the best strategists, visionaries, builders, and bulldozers…who helped build this company over the past many years.

I’m in awe.

In awe of all of the many people who have been a part of this 18 year journey. The loyalty, the camaraderie, the friendship.

I thank our partners, clients, employees and investors who helped make this professional dream, a reality.

18 years later.

Thank you.

#Lotame

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[andymonfried @andymonfried]

I interview someone for a position.

The candidate goes home and tells his Dad about the interview, and he tells him my name.

The Father Googles me.

Comes back with a post I wrote in 2014.
The Dad loves it, and the band, and found it a fan website. The title of his thank you email to me is.....

"On my way to better things....."

https://t.co/puUHWPmYEu

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

@Eve_Barlow Totally and completely agree. The sheer # of people over the past few years who have tried to tell me (and others) that "White Supremacy" is the most dangerous challenge facing Jews in the US &, it turns out to be the most lucrative $ for the ADL & UJA, but not rooted in facts.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

4) They do have a "superiority" complex that they did not earn, nor pay for....

And, you are right -- Trump accelerated this friction a decade early.....and I for one could not be more pleased that he pushed this upon a continent that forgot who paid (in blood and sweat) for much of their capability to save and promote their "culture."

The ride is over.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

3) ....and they became arrogant. But, they did not earn nor pay for that supposed arrogance.

Oil is now critical, and the backbone of prosperity, like it or not.

Europe has no technology sector, has no strong miltary, and no energy independence.

But, they have culture....

And, contempt of America. Now, they can shower and fund themselves as far as I'm concerned.

B

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

Happy Passover......

This holiday is a guidebook for awareness, survival, and resilience.

Despair & hope, all rolled into one meal, holiday, and roadmap.

I took this pic last night, and I love it.

Am' Yisrael Chai.....

Good prevails over evil.

"With a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm......"

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

@BrianMastFL - it was an honor & privilege to meet you sir.

Made my day.

Thanks for your continued service.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

@siggyflicker @SpeakerMenin Love you Siggy. Thank you.

Pandering won’t save the infidels in (and amongst) us.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

@RepRashida Your plan is on schedule -- Globalizing the Intifada starts in your backyard.

You are a disgraceful human.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

@sidrosenberg19 Sid, I stand with you. Unapologetically.

Proud of you.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

My instinct tells me we are only weeks away from Tucker Carlson hosting Ilhan Omar as a guest on his show.
.......for the life of me......I cant figure out what could possibly unite these strange bedfellows......

If we were playing Wheel of Fortune, this might be a hint.

Th*y b*th h*te JEWS.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

@tkawaja weirdly enough, lots of opportunity right now going the other way. contrarian for sure, but it is "green space" with the right vision + services leverage (one to many, with scale)......

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

The Price (Part 1) , by @andymonfried https://t.co/0x5dXY8n7C

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

Notes From a 20-Year CEO, One Year Post-Acquisition by Publicis.

@Lotame @PublicisGroupe @EpsilonMktg

https://t.co/BvAOrgpGnQ

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

About to go on @JEMPRadio at 5pm ET to do a proper tribute to @BobWeir ....

You can stream here: https://t.co/XtSgtniyRE - click play.

Robert Weir, you enriched my life in so many ways, and I intend to express it.

Photo credit: Stephen Lapides.
He took this photo on a tour we did together in the spring of 1989...this one was Greensboro, NC: 3-31-89.

Hope you can join me.

"Never know now, just don't never know, no
Well it's been heaven, but even the rainbows will end
Now my sails are fillin' and the wind is willin'
And I'm as good as gone again
I'm still walkin', so I'm sure that I can dance....."

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

@tkawaja @AtwoodIan32412 I’m a rented bot. I stand with both Israel & the Iranian people.

(Please send rent payment).

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@tkawaja @RioLongacre @BillAckman To be clear. I credited the author on FB below the pasted comment. That thread is here:

https://t.co/BRrkSy1KSA

[Tahmineh Dehbozorgi @DeTahmineh]

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.

Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime.

Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.

Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.

This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased.

By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely.

There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.

As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises.

Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.

This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language.

Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.

That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.

So the silence continues.

[andymonfried @andymonfried]

@mjbarash That’s funny.
And, true.
Purposely….

We call it, “Earned Media.” :)

You complete (and validate) our thesis.

Thank you Matt. :)

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@keithmcsweeney @JEMPRadio thank you Keith! love having you aboard -- Happy Thanksgiving to you both.....