Austin Hay
13 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 13, 2023 by Austin Hay · across every show →
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Aug 13, 2023 negative
Aug 13, 2023
Hay: Breaking into MarTech requires six months of coding, not a CS degree
“You don't have to go get a software engineering degree. You can teach yourself. I am self-taught. You can take a coding academy online. I think you get enough knowledge through being able to do web programming or some type of back-end programming So I would sa…”
Aug 13, 2023 positive
Hay: Systems thinkers should delay decisions as long as possible
“And one of his tactics is this concept of thinking gray, which is actually to not decide for as long as you possibly can before you have to decide. And it's really challenging because it involves this little thing called patience, which I do not have a lot of …”
Aug 13, 2023 negative
Aug 13, 2023 negative
Hay: Never join companies hiding financials from director-level hires
“One of the red flags whenever I'm approaching a company to work for them is I'll ask for their company financials and like a company that's not willing to divulge their financials to like a director level or above person. I don't want to do business with, beca…”
Aug 13, 2023 positive
Aug 13, 2023 positive
Hay reveals the ideal golden tech stack for B2C marketing
“If I was a B to C business, I'd buy Amplitude for my CDP, I'd buy customer IO, and maybe I'd upgrade to Braze in the future. I'd put everything in Snowflake. I'd buy high touch to reverse ETL, that data out to my ad networks. For attribution, probably AppSlyer…”
Aug 13, 2023 positive
Aug 13, 2023
Hay: Top MarTech leaders require recent hands-on operating experience
“You have to be an IC in that you are the most senior technical expert on all first party and third party systems. So you have to know really well how third party tools work, and you don't know that without doing the work yourself. So I do find that like some o…”
Aug 13, 2023 positive
Hay: Cal.com is superior to Calendly for multi-calendar sync and modern UX
“I've been a big Calendly user for a long time, but Calendly is pretty expensive. If anyone from Calendly is listening, you want to give me a promo, cool, but it's very expensive, and then I also just found that, like, it is not always graceful at syncing multi…”
Aug 13, 2023 positive
Hay: Asking candidates about recent hardship encourages vulnerability and calms them
“Tell me about the most difficult or challenging thing you've overcome in the last year in your life. It doesn't have to be work related. It can be personal. And I think it's like a great way to just like reset the atmosphere Make people dig a little bit deeper…”
Aug 13, 2023