Mark Grether
3 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2018 by Mark Grether · across every show →
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Jul 11, 2018 negative
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.”
Jul 11, 2018 positive
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…”
Jul 11, 2018 negative
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…”