Emily Boschwitz

Co-founder and CMO, POCA · 1 appearance on the record.

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Emily Boschwitz is a growth and marketing executive who led go-to-market strategies across tech companies including Vanta, Cameo, hims & hers, and Eight Sleep. She co-founded POCA, a direct-to-consumer sweetener brand, alongside Hilary Coles.

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Everything Emily Boschwitz said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Boschwitz: Brand identity is the ultimate moat in an automated market
“No matter how smart, how fast these tools get, brand is gonna be the reason why people trust your business, come to you, and return. It's the way they feel on your site, They feel, you know, talking to a sales rep or reading a case study. It's defensible. It's…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 10:46 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Boschwitz: AI will lead to fewer agencies and more in-house craft experts
“On the team side, I believe we're gonna see people become real experts in their craft. They're gonna understand how to use these tools and operate at a scale they themselves have never seen before, which probably means less agencies and more people that are re…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 12:24 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Boschwitz: Marketers will increasingly leave full-time roles for independent consulting
“Being in more control of your day-to-day tends to lend itself to give you more ability to do that, and so likely we'll see more people go off on their own, become experts in their craft, and support multiple businesses in this way. It'll be more economical for…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 13:24 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Insight
Boschwitz: Sales and marketing must tightly align to sell B2B security products
“And so we have to make sure that we're not creating a bunch of noise, we're creating clarity. And to do that well, marketing and sales have to be tied at the hip and build an engine that delivers the right message at the right time.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 1:36 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Boschwitz: Future GTM leaders will manage multiple tools within one system
“I very much see the future being that a CMO and a, you know, a head of sales is orchestrating across multiple tools, but within one system.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 4:54 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Disclosure
Boschwitz: Real-time data enrichment delivers the most value to Vanta's growth team
“Data enrichment very much is where we're finding the most value today, because it's able to give us not just so much more depth, but so much more depth live time that we can react to.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 6:10 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Boschwitz predicts AI image tools will be enterprise-ready in months
“On the image side, I don't yet feel that we're there yet with the programs, but the opportunity is clearly coming, and the improvements we've seen in these platforms and their ability to create images has been night and day, and so I expect in a few months' ti…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 7:17 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Boschwitz: AI personalization will heighten demand for human white-glove service
“I absolutely think that AI is going to enable us to get much more personalized, which is going to impact the experience with the brand. At the same time, I think with personalization comes the expectation of white glove experience, and so your customers are go…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 11:30 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Boschwitz: CMOs will pivot to systems orchestration and cross-functional alignment
“So one, for CMOs, their job is going to be about building systems and orchestration. They're going to be deeply partnered with sales and product and understanding what those systems look like. And they are going to still define the brand, the ethics, and the m…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 12:07 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Boschwitz: Brand, high-trust workflows, and data are top moats in 10 years
“So my hot take is the most defensible things 10 years from now will be your brand, workflows that require high trust and data.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 13:44 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Boschwitz: Health and compliance workflows will always require human AI oversight
“Over time, I think everybody is going to start trusting more of these bots and agents who are doing these workflows, but there will be things that are very compliance heavy or health heavy that people are going to continue to want oversight on to ensure that t…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 14:14 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Disclosure
Boschwitz: Vanta uses Clay, Koala, and Common Room for lead enrichment
“So we've got tools like Clay, we've got tools like Koala and Common Room that very much are allowing us to get even more and deeper information.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 2:34 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Insight
Boschwitz: Map customer journeys before deploying AI GTM tools
“So first, I highly recommend you sit down and you outline your sales journey with sales, marketing, and product. And then AI tools can very much be helpful at bringing together all the data, sort of using it in a unified way across that life cycle.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 3:19 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Disclosure
Vanta uses Clay and Webflow for real-time landing page personalization
“We've got clay. It's enriching our data. We're then taking clay and integrating that data into our CMS, which happens to be web And we're updating our landing page in live time with the information we have that's relevant to the user.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 3:38 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Disclosure
Vanta equips SDRs with AI tools like Alice and Reggie
“That same information is then available for our SDRs in their AI SDR tools. So think Alice, think Reggie. That's providing them information that they can then craft into outreach and be very personalized, but also in line with the messages that marketing is sh…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 3:53 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Disclosure
Vanta uses Gong to analyze sales calls and refine messaging
“So on the qualitative side, we're using Gong. And Gong is taking all of our sales information and conversations and then giving us information on what Points or positioning are creating the most objections or driving the most closed ones, and that allows us to…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 5:43 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Disclosure
Boschwitz: Vanta allocates budget specifically for internal teams to test AI tools
“And Vanta is creating a budget to ensure that teams can go out and test these tools and have that growth.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 8:49 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Disclosure
Vanta uses HockeyStack and Green Data for attribution measurement
“We're right now working with a couple different tools to improve our attribution. Those tools look like hockey stack or green data, and they're able to do a great job of measuring the different touch points you have across your go to market, marketing and sale…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 9:45 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales Jun 19, 2025 10m
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