Mark Grether
SVP and GM, PayPal Ads, PayPal. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Mark Grether co-founded WPP's programmatic advertising company Xaxis and served as CEO of Sizmek until its acquisition by Amazon. He subsequently led Uber Advertising before joining PayPal in 2024 to build and lead its advertising platform.
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Everything Mark Grether said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mark Grether predicts Sizmek will be the only global competitor to DoubleClick
“I think we are on a good path to establish ourselves as the only one who can truly compete with the Doubled League stack at global scale.”
Operating an ad server and media business creates inherent conflicts of interest
“If you are now also a publisher, if you're also running a media business, you would actually measure yourself. And it's obviously a conflict of interest, which you cannot go with.”
Mark Grether: Sizmek is the largest independent global buy-side ad platform
“We acquired Rocket Fuel. We combined both businesses, Seismic and Rocket Fuel, under the Seismic brand, and now we are the largest independent bi-fi platform for advertisers and agencies with about 1600 employees globally.”
Advertisers want integrated platforms instead of stitched-together ad tech stacks
“What they really want to have is one platform that they can use to do everything in one single stack, right? They don't want to have a Frankenstein, Any longer where they have to stitch things together, they really truly won't have a one platform, which is sim…”
Advertisers urgently need independent alternatives to Google and Facebook
“Advertisers and agencies, they need an alternative to Google, right? They need an alternative to Google and Facebook, and there won't be many alternatives.”
Sizmek intentionally went private to execute an ad tech ecosystem roll-up
“So, we started a conversation when Seismic was still public, but with the knowledge that we want to actually take it private, and then we actually want to do the roll-up with other players in the ecosystem, and you can actually do that Much more easily in a no…”
Quarterly reporting forces short-term focus, harming long-term M&A integrations
“The reason is that bringing companies together, right, and forming a new business model just takes time, right? So if you actually have to report and justify yourself every quarter, you're much more short-term focused.”
Ad industry focuses on inputs because output remains too difficult to measure
“We focus as an industry too much on the input rather than on the output. And one of the reasons is that we just have a struggle to measure output, and the better we become in measuring the output, the more we can actually attach re-numerations and compensation…”
Sizmek acquires technology in emerging markets and relationships in core ones
“On the one hand, there are new opportunities. Again, I mentioned programmatic TV where we might be more looking into the talent and the technology, right? And then there are other areas where we already have a good footprint and therefore maybe we look more in…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Mark's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | SVP and GM, PayPal Ads, PayPal | 1 | 9 | 0% 0/1 | full record on Top Founders → |