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Buddy Media

5 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2025 by Mike Lazerow · across every show →

Everything said about Buddy Media, oldest first

Mar 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Advertisers spent over $1 billion on Facebook through Buddy Media's platform
“Their advertisers were spending at the time, it was early, over a billion dollars with fail, with Facebook through our platform, right?”
Mike Lazerow Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 33:45 The 'messy' path to start-up success (with Kass & Mike Lazerow from SXSW) | Masters of Scale
Mar 21, 2025
What-if
Mike Lazerow: Buddy Media would have struggled without the Salesforce acquisition
“It turned out that if we hadn't done that deal, I think, like, I haven't talked about this publicly either, I think we would have had a hard time as a business.”
Mike Lazerow Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 33:19 The 'messy' path to start-up success (with Kass & Mike Lazerow from SXSW) | Masters of Scale
Mar 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Buddy Media reached $50 million annual recurring revenue in three years
“We were the fastest at the time, like the fast growing company to reach fifty million in like annual recurring revenue. It took us three years on the back of Facebook.”
Mike Lazerow Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 30:17 The 'messy' path to start-up success (with Kass & Mike Lazerow from SXSW) | Masters of Scale
Mar 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Google offered $100 million more than Salesforce to acquire Buddy Media
“We had, I don't, I've never told this story publicly, but we had a term sheet from Google There was a hundred million dollars more than Salesforce.”
Mike Lazerow Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 32:01 The 'messy' path to start-up success (with Kass & Mike Lazerow from SXSW) | Masters of Scale
Jun 20, 2025 positive
Insight
Berman: The best corporate boards are managed by founders, not vice versa
“The best boards are actually managed by the CEO and founders. The board isn't managing them.”
Jeff Berman Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 29:00 How to Raise Capital & Invest in the Underinvested (with Stacy Brown-Philpot) | Masters of Scale
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