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Marketing Industry Interviews

Explore interviews with founders and CEOs in the Marketing industry. Learn about their journeys, challenges, and strategies for success in building marketing and advertising businesses.

Mark Shapiro
Sports, Marketing, Technology

Mark Shapiro

President and CEO

$32 million/month
4.8/5
B2C
B2B
Subscription-based
Marketplace
500 employees
Canada
Started 1977

How I'm building a sustainable winning culture in Major League Baseball through people-first leadership and data-driven decision making.

May 20, 2024Read Interview
Morgan DeBaun
Technology, Marketing, Creators, Production

Morgan DeBaun

Founder

$633 million/month
4.9/5
B2B
B2C
Agency
Subscription-based
225 employees
USA
Started 2014

How I built a digital media powerhouse focused on Black culture and created a platform that amplifies diverse voices.

May 15, 2024Read Interview
Debra Crew
Production, Marketing, Retail, eCommerce

Debra Crew

CEO of Diageo

$1.4 billion/month
4.9/5
Manufacturing
B2B
B2C
30,000+
UK
Started 1997

How I'm transforming Diageo's culture and driving innovation in the spirits industry through data-driven decision making and balanced leadership.

May 5, 2024Read Interview
Jim Keyes
Retail, eCommerce, Production, Marketing

Jim Keyes

Former CEO of 7-Eleven and Blockbuster

$100K–$500K/month
4.8/5
Manufacturing
B2B
B2C
Marketplace
50+
USA
Started 1927

How I transformed 7-Eleven through innovation and adaptability, turning challenges into opportunities for global growth.

May 1, 2024Read Interview
Tom Bilyeu
Health & Wellness, eCommerce, Retail, Production, Marketing

Tom Bilyeu

Co-founder & Former CMO

$1M+/month
4.9/5
B2C
Manufacturing
B2B
50+
USA
Started 2010

How I turned $10,000 and a home-made protein bar recipe into a $1 billion business by focusing on community and value over profits.

April 29, 2024Read Interview
Luca Martini
Marketing, Agencies, SEO, eCommerce, Production

Luca Martini

Founder & CEO

$10K–$50K/month
4.7/5
B2B
Agency
Freemium
B2C
Marketplace
6–20
Italy
Started 2015

How I built a YouTube marketing agency from scratch and scaled to a team of 15 through SEO and content marketing.

April 20, 2024Read Interview
Indra Nooyi
Retail, Marketing, Production, Health & Wellness, eCommerce

Indra Nooyi

Former CEO

$1M+/month
4.4/5
B2C
B2B
Marketplace
Manufacturing
50+
USA
Started 2009

Indra Nooyi led PepsiCo through a period of unprecedented growth, pioneering a focus on health conscious products and sustainable development.

July 11, 2025Read Interview
Priyanka Vemuluri
Retail, Production, Marketing

Priyanka Vemuluri

Founder & CEO

$500K–$1M/month
4.6/5
B2C
Retail
Manufacturing
50+
India
Started 2022

The founder of Goyaz built a thriving jewelry brand rooted in affordability and aspiration. Starting from a single store with family support, she scaled Goya into a 19-store empire across 5 Indian states in just over two years.

July 28, 2025Read Interview
Alex Hormozi
SaaS, Marketing

Alex Hormozi

Founder & CEO

$1M+/month
4.9/5
B2B
Agency
50+
USA
Started 2020

Alex Hormozi, founder of Acquisition.com, scaled businesses past $100M+ in revenue by focusing on volume, consistency, and value creation. Known for his no-nonsense frameworks, Alex helps entrepreneurs avoid common traps while building long-term wealth.

August 26, 2025Read Interview
Jordan Welch
eCommerce, SaaS, Creators, Marketing, Technology, SEO

Jordan Welch

Founder

$100K–$500K/month
4.9/5
B2C
B2B
Subscription-based
Freemium
6–20
USA
Started 2011

From MW2 video edits to seven figure exits: Jordan Welch built a durable creator operator career through YouTube, drop shipping, and his SaaS company Viral Vault, favoring slow, steady compounding over hype.

September 12, 2025Read Interview
Dan Martell
SaaS, Marketing, Agencies, Edu

Dan Martell

Founder

$1M+/month
4.9/5
B2B
Subscription-based
Agency
50+
Canada
Started 2015 or earlier

Dan Martell built, scaled, and exited multiple SaaS companies, then reinvented himself as one of the leading coaches and investors for founders worldwide. His approach blends gratitude, flow, and systems with tactical growth strategies.

September 15, 2025Read Interview
John Nunziato
Agencies, Marketing

John Nunziato

Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Little Big Brands

$500K–$1M/month
4.8/5
B2B
Agency
21–50
USA
Started 2015 or earlier

John Nunziato walked away from big agencies and timesheets after 9/11 to build Little Big Brands, a 25-year independent shop that puts brand first, ego last. He grew a one-man package design studio into a full brand and advertising partner that evolves global CPGs, keeps clients for decades, and treats asset consistency, long-term relationships, and honest feedback as real competitive edges.

December 4, 2025Read Interview
Dharmesh Shah
SaaS, Marketing, AI, Technology

Dharmesh Shah

Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot

$1M+/month
4.9/5
B2B
Subscription-based
Freemium
50+
USA
Started 2015 or earlier

Dharmesh Shah is the engineer-founder who turned HubSpot into a multibillion SaaS platform while quietly blogging his way to the top of SEO. Now he is pushing the shift from search engine optimization to answer engine optimization, building agents, tools, and side projects with the same quiet, obsessive intensity.

December 9, 2025Read Interview
Deepak Shukla
Agencies, Marketing, SEO

Deepak Shukla

Founder & CEO, Pearl Lemon Group

$100K–$500K/month
4.8/5
B2B
Agency
50+
Italy
Started 2016

Deepak Shukla is the ex-Deloitte consultant who backpacked, fought Muay Thai, and then bootstrapped Pearl Lemon from his mum’s house into a global, remote-first agency group. He treats discomfort as a growth tool and people as the core leverage in business, obsessing over hiring, training, and building intense, high-velocity teams.

December 10, 2025Read Interview
Eric Siu
Agencies, Marketing

Eric Siu

Founder & CEO, Leveling Up

$500K–$1M/month
4.9/5
B2B
Agency
21–50
USA
Started 2014

Eric Siu is the gamer-turned-operator who took over a failing SEO shop, almost shut it down, then rebuilt it into Leveling Up – a multi-million dollar marketing and education company. He now runs multiple businesses under the Leveling Up brand, hosts two podcasts, and treats entrepreneurship as a long-term game.

December 11, 2025Read Interview
Neil Patel
AI, Marketing, Agencies

Neil Patel

Co-founder, NP Digital

$1M+/month
4.9/5
B2B
Agency
Subscription-based
50+
USA
Started 2015 or earlier

Neil Patel is the marketer-turned-operator who rode the SEO wave early, built a $100M agency, and is now obsessed with practical ways to win in the AI gold rush with small, focused teams.

December 13, 2025Read Interview
Robert Kyncl
AI, Creators, Technology, Production, Marketing

Robert Kyncl

CEO, Warner Music Group

$1M+/month
4.8/5
B2B
B2C
50+
USA
Started 2015 or earlier

Robert Kyncl is the CEO of Warner Music Group, bringing an operator mindset to music as pricing shifts, AI accelerates change, and scale becomes a bigger advantage for artists and rights holders.

December 15, 2025Read Interview