Marketing Industry
Discover insights from top Marketing industry CEOs and founders. Learn how they built successful marketing companies and their strategies for growth and innovation.

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

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

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

Jim Keyes
Former CEO of 7-Eleven and Blockbuster
How I transformed 7-Eleven through innovation and adaptability, turning challenges into opportunities for global growth.

Tom Bilyeu
Co-founder & Former CMO
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.

Luca Martini
Founder & CEO
How I built a YouTube marketing agency from scratch and scaled to a team of 15 through SEO and content marketing.

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

Priyanka Vemuluri
Founder & CEO
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.

Alex Hormozi
Founder & CEO
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.

Jordan Welch
Founder
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.

Dan Martell
Founder
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.

John Nunziato
Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Little Big Brands
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.

Dharmesh Shah
Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot
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.

Deepak Shukla
Founder & CEO, Pearl Lemon Group
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.

Eric Siu
Founder & CEO, Leveling Up
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.

Neil Patel
Co-founder, NP Digital
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.

Robert Kyncl
CEO, Warner Music Group
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.