Bill Wise
Co-Founder and CEO, Mediaocean. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Bill Wise is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mediaocean, an advertising infrastructure and media management platform. He has overseen key company acquisitions, including Flashtalking and Innovid, as well as an acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.
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18statements
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38said about them ↓ Everything Bill Wise said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Wise: Competing with MediaOcean requires $50B to $60B in processing volume
“So we've commoditized, you know, what we do way down so it'd be very difficult for someone to compete with us, because you would really, literally need to have 50 or sixty billion of spend going through the system just to compete.”
Wise: Executives who excel at golf are probably poor CEOs
“It's like I have a I have a thing where if you're a CEO or executive and you're good at golf, it means you're probably not that good of a CEO.”
Mediaocean claims to be the only adtech firm covering all media types
“We're the only ad tech company that is across all those media types.”
Wise: DSP take rates of 18% to 22% will inevitably get commoditized
“If they're making, you know, 18 20, 22%, you think that's going to get commoditized.”
Wise: Mediaocean's incremental revenue yields nearly 100% EBITDA margin
“The next incremental dollar is near a hundred percent EBITDA.”
Mediaocean Uses Wonderlic Testing Exclusively and Only Hires Top 21% Scorers
“We use no external recruiters because we ask everyone to take a wonder like test. And 21% of the world's population gets an A or B on this test. We only hire A's and B's.”
Wise: Vista Allowed 100% Equity Liquidity in Mediaocean Acquisition
“They allowed me to sell a hundred percent of my equity on their acquisition, re-upped me.”
Wise: Mediaocean processed $141B in 2016 media spend
“Last year we did one hundred and forty one billion dollars through our platform and we'll eclipse that by about five or six billion this year.”
Wise: MediaOcean holds exclusive agency contracts averaging 27-year relationship lengths
“All of our deals with the holding companies are at the holding company level and are exclusive. So from a billing, reconciliation invoicing, you know, all that back office stuff, those guys all have long-term contracts with us. In fact, when we were selling th…”
Wise: Donovan Data Systems Was Profitable Every Year Since 1967
“Donovan, you know, had been profitable literally every single year since 1967.”
Wise: Blockchain cannot handle programmatic ad scale
“Number one, they cannot, it cannot handle the level of scale that online advertising has, programmatic specifically.”
Wise: Salesforce lacks enterprise paid media infrastructure
“Well, and the other part of Salesforce, they have, you know, they have CRM you know, they have existing users through social, so it's paid, owned, and earned. They have owned and earned. They don't have paid.”
Mediaocean operates with only seven salespeople across all accounts
“So, because we have every single major agency, our sales department is looking for some smaller agencies. It's looking for connect partners. That's ad tech companies, data companies, supply partners, convergence. So, we actually only have about seven salespeop…”
DDS contributed 102% of net assets in the MediaBank merger
“DDS contributed a 102% of the net assets of the deal. And they were five times our size.”
Wise: DOJ challenged the MediaBank-DDS merger for seven months
“Now the Department of Justice took a liking to us. They blocked the deal for anti-competition. We battled that for seven months and got through.”
Wise: MediaOcean Invested $100M Over Five Years Into R&D
“We invested a hundred million dollars of R and D over five years to get there. So about 20, twenty one million dollars a year.”
Wise: MediaOcean Completed Six Acquisitions Under Vista Equity in Two Years
“Since Vista's on us for just about two years, a little over two years now, we've done six acquisitions.”
The other half of the tape: Bill Wise's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 38 times in 18 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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2020 3 mentions in 1 episode
2019 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- 1554 $130M ARR Vista Owned Company Made These 2 Moves Right After Acquisition
- 1292 How Cvent Hit $500m Bookings with Eyes on $1B in Meeting and Event Space
- 1500 BullHorn Sold 60% Early On, Now $200m in ARR, E50+
- 1426 Adtech DSP Passes $30m in Revenue With Addition of New Data Product
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 22 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- 913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down
- 1082 Why Public Sizmek Went Private to Fuel Growth via M&A in Buy Side Programmatic Space
- 895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue
- 1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play
- 1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation
- 1114 Personalized Video Adtech Company Hits $60m TTM Revenues
- 1047 Rokt CEO: Why We Acquired CalReply for $15m on $1-2m in ARR
- 1028 Advertisers Put $250m Through Him Last Year As Top Google, Facebook Alternative
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
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| TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Mediaocean | 1 | 18 | 40% 2/5 | full record on Top Founders → |