Attribution

topic on 7 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes

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Standardized marketing attribution software fails due to highly specific company logic
“With attributions, there is a lot of, like, business use cases that are so specific to how you run your business, to, like, intricacies of how you think about doing marketing, et cetera, that building a solution that works for everyone just is not enough.”
Michel Tricot Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 21:31 He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
20VC Opinion
CMO Raz Herzberg claims marketing attribution in B2B SaaS is complete bullshit
“I think pipeline numbers and attribution, I think attribution and the whole discussions around attribution is complete bullshit.”
Raz Herzberg Dec 12, 2025 ▶ 1:01:33 20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
Ramanujam: Rushing into outcome-based pricing without proving attribution causes failure
“Like if you try to rush into an outcome-based pricing model, but cannot prove attribution, you will fail.”
Madhavan Ramanujam Jul 27, 2025 ▶ 45:42 Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
SAASTR Insight
Norton: Channel Attribution Leads to Local Maxima Decisions Over Enterprise Value
“I'm very anti-attribution in general. Like, I think we get into problems where we say, oh, this is a marketing-attributed sourced deal versus a sales-attributed one. You end up making local maxima decisions as opposed to saying, all right, how do we maximize t…”
Kyle Norton May 28, 2025 ▶ 24:26 AI, Sales + GTM in 2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton
Paid channel data has never provided full end-to-end attribution understanding
“The issue for most companies is in this incorrect assumption that The data that is provided through paid channels allows you to have full end to end understanding of like attribution, which is wrong. It's never been that way.”
Jonathan Becker May 7, 2023 ▶ 21:46 Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
Apple's privacy changes killed the ability to perform proper marketing attribution
“Apple basically deprecated what is called a device identifier that many companies use for marketing tracking. This killed the ability to actually do attribution properly”
Mayor Sadra Jan 1, 2022 ▶ 6:42 Zero to $800k in 5 Months, Advertising Attribution Platform Incrmntal Breaks 24 Customers
Clarkson: Attribution metrics are a blunt instrument for evaluating VC teams
“LPs ask about attribution, because it's a very blunt instrument to try to understand how a team works”
Beezer Clarkson Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 25:35 Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)
a16z Insight
De La Garza: Cybercrime attribution is the hardest part of cybersecurity
“Attribution is the hardest part of the whole security ecosystem, like putting fingers on keyboards, that's what governments do.”
Joel De La Garza Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 30:47 a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime

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