marketing — PODCAST — Breakthrough Builders

Craft and Curiosity

Brian Irving, VP of Marketing at Meta Reality Labs, on striking the right balance between optimizing for the present and communicating the possible to bring more audiences into the metaverse.

Season 5Jesse PurewalDecember 7, 2022chief marketing officer, connectivity, virtual reality, brand experience, metaverse, marketing, advice for cmos, collaboration, communications, facebook, meta, reality labs

Art of Inclusion

Kamala Avila-Salmon discusses her career spent building programs and leading organizational transformations to drive representation and inclusion in music, tech, television and film.

Season 5Jesse PurewalAugust 25, 2022Kamala Avila-Salmon, Jesse Purewal, music industry, representation, diversity, marketing, antiracism, inclusive hiring, diversity in film, inclusion, equity, employee experience, how to be an ally

The Cult of We

Journalist and author Maureen Farrell on the story-behind-the-story of the ascent and decline of WeWork, why she chose it as the topic for her first book, anecdotes and advice from her writing journey, and more.

Season 5Jesse PurewalMarch 30, 2022wework, business journalism, wall street journal, marketing, startups, corporate greed, real estate, new york times, venture capital, adam neumann, entrepreneurship

Currency of Creation

VaynerNFT President Avery Akkineni describes her journey to becoming a leading voice in the NFT space, and shares her view on what consumers and brands need to know about NFTs and blockchain technologies.

Season 5Jesse PurewalDecember 8, 2021avery akkineni, crypto, brand experience, nft, marketing, customer-centric growth, gary vaynerchuk, non fungible tokens, bitcoin, intellectual property

Building with Purpose

Robert Chatwani, Chief Marketing Officer at Atlassian, reflects on discovering his personal purpose, building organizations and making career choices with purpose at the center, and his views on the future of Marketing and the CMO role.

Season 3Jesse PurewalJune 30, 2021best cmos, robert chatwani, chatwani, atlassian, marketing, chief marketing officers, qualtrics employee study

Learning to Infinity

Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering at Shopify, talks to Jesse about the doors he has opened in his career and life by viewing learning as an “infinite game.”

Amplifying Human Agency

Charlie Sutton, Head of Design at Facebook App, expounds on the power of design to give everyone a voice and to help us achieve peak human agency.

Educating the World

Geetha Murali, CEO of Room to Read, discusses the importance of building skills and relationships in the quest to educate 40 million children.

Building with Purpose

Robert Chatwani, Chief Marketing Officer of Atlassian, reflects on building with purpose, technology as a force for positive change, and the future of marketing.