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Bedecarre: Apple, Meta, Salesforce, and Slack back in offices by April 2022
“Big tech, you know, that Apple, Salesforce, Facebook, Meta you know, Slack all of these companies are kind of targeting over the next couple months, but by April, they will all be back.”
Paid social is probably the worst customer acquisition channel
“Paid social is probably the worst acquisition channel, especially with the Apple privacy changes.”
Gunderson: Without owning your data, you cannot control real-time updates
“If you don't own the data, you don't have control to update it.”
Bonnici: Adversarial brand positioning is only necessary for market challengers
“I think it can be done really, really well, but once you get to a point, you don't need to do that anymore. Like, Apple doesn't need to talk about PC anymore, right? They're number one. I think it becomes more of a thing only if you're not number one.”
Cohen: Great tech leaders act as editors rather than makers
“What Jobs did is he hired the best designers in the world and then held them to a very high standard, which is what an editor does, not a writer. Not a maker, an editor.”
Halligan: HubSpot Specifically Models Its Internal Organization After Apple
“We'd model ourselves. The one company we model after is Apple. We're no Apple. They'd be like to pick the R and we try to copy them.”
Lerman: Yext's iBeacon product 'Zone' was his biggest career failure
“One of the biggest failures of my career was a thing called a zone at Yext. It was a product that Used a beacon. I don't know if you remember the beacons, the iBeacon protocol that Apple launched, that basically was this Bluetooth thing that could wake up your…”