Some personal news! Recently, I stepped back from the day-to-day at @Instacart to focus on investing full-time. I sat down with my friend @jaltma on Uncapped to talk about building Instacart and my philosophy on early-stage investing — check it out here!
📣 Huge update!! We raised $9.5M. And we’re introducing @multiply_ads - the first hybrid AI media agency for B2B.
We help high-ambition B2B companies find new customers faster.
Marketing is at the center of every great company. But advertising is broken. You launch campaigns…and the ads go stale. Almost right away.
So we built something different: Self-Learning Ads.
Ads that continuously improve based on what your customers actually care about. We connect to internal sales data (sales calls, CRM, etc) and automatically generate new ads. We built the AI and have the in-house experts to manage the campaigns.
Proud to partner and manage the ads machine for many of the top B2B companies, including Vanta, Listen Labs, and Superhuman.
We’re already seeing ad performance grow by 300-500% for standout companies.
Our round was led by @MayfieldFund - with @patricksalyer joining our board, with @sorensoncap, Instacart Co-Founder @max, and Google Head of Gemini & Google Labs @joshwoodward. Thank you to @Forbes and @CharlieFink for the feature.
Kudos to the amazing people who are in the trenches building @hellowrie_, @KateePeek@pdp46@ashishwarty@EmilZawatski@ArthurDvor50439
My mom was a marketer. I studied marketing at The Wharton School. I marketed products at @Google, and cracked growth strategy at @brexHQ. I was raised in this world, and proud to contribute to its next chapter.
I did something I never thought I'd do. I started a podcast. And it's actually really fun.
I'm lucky and get to meet lots of incredible people as a startup CEO. But I'm usually in business mode. B2B marketers come to us for help growing faster, so we get right to work to help them do just that.
But a lot of my favorite talks are unstructured, they're funny, they're weird, they're full of stories. They just don't fit into the regular work day.
Unless you make time. And when you do, it's the best.
We call the podcast Demand Gen 🔥. I talk with marketing, demand gen, growth & GTM badasses of all kinds - as they experiment with new ways to grow demand and turn their companies into 🚀s.
Special shoutout to @jasonkarsh for being patient #1. I've always loved how Jason thinks about marketing and how he's been wildly brave in taking bets on the crypto space since early days. He's also one of the most articulate people. In Ep 1, he opens up about how - at the height of the Crypto Boom - he inked a huge deal to sponsor the @dallascowboys - plus @bitkey, Proto, and much more.
I'm all in to shine the spotlight on great people, who work hard and think differently. We've already recorded a bunch of great episodes and they're soon to follow.
I'm definitely no good at editing these quite yet, but having fun trying.
PS My buddy @Youshaei is one of the world's greatest content creators and will probably be the most shocked to read this! Hi Jon!
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Today’s a first–1st public mention of Kalos! @a16z included us in their market map–chomping at the heels of GTM incumbents. We’re in stealth but stoked by this mention.
@mandrusko1 is great at knowing where the puck is headed. Really thoughtful piece, thanks for including us!
In 1999, Marc Benioff started Salesforce with a vision to build “A World-Class Internet Company for Sales Force Automation.” Today, there are hundreds of AI companies trying to build Salesforce automations. @zeyalater, @astrange and I present @a16z's thesis on Sales Tech of the Future. 🧵
Brex is one of the highest-rated apps on the store. Great example of a high-quality and serious app made with Expo. Lots of hard work and care from the Brex team to earn a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating, congrats!