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The best Product folks have this insane ability to deconstruct consumer behaviors from other apps and apply it to theirs. MPL’s game design, CRED Mint’s referral flows, and Urban Company’s service descriptions are all great examples of these!

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new episode alert: Magnite $MGNI CEO Michael Barrett breaks down the future of independent ad tech. we talk competing with Google, why The Trade Desk won, and what actually works in M&A. Plus some great insights on leading turnarounds: https://lnkd.in/eAKc84Qi

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🏆 State Space Models (SSM) for the Win! I’ve had the privilege of working with Karan Goel and Brandon Yang, the visionary founders of Cartesia. The team has built something truly remarkable—a low latency AI voice solution that has set a new bar for the industry: 90ms generation to first audio segment. At Goodcall, we’re delivering AI phone agents for businesses to automate common workflows, freeing up teams to focus on what matters most. And here’s why Cartesia is the perfect partner and why we up leveled 2,217 AI phone agents to it: 🤖 State Space Models (SSM): This innovation enables Cartesia to deliver voice interactions with low latency and real-time performance—essential for AI phone agents handling thousands of calls seamlessly. 💡 Breakthrough TTS technology: Their text-to-speech system generates voices that sound natural and human, critical for AI agents interacting with customers in real-time.  The voice blending capability unlocks emotion, breadth of character and more. 📞 Voice cloning: Businesses can now have personalized AI agents that represent their brand voice authentically.  The cloning process takes just 15 seconds of audio to build an unbelievable replica in less than a minute! 💻 Developer-friendly interface: Cartesia’s API allows our team to integrate quickly and efficiently, so we can scale our AI phone agents across industries without delay. 🧠 Emotional support: Expressing emotion is the next frontier for our agents and Cartesia enables this capability which we can’t wait to deploy.. It’s been an amazing journey with Karan Goel and Brandon Yang, and I’m excited to announce this partnership between Goodcall and Cartesia. Together, we’re redefining what’s possible with AI-driven phone agents. 🙏 Thank you team Cartesia for this innovation! Excited for what we will do next. 🚀

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Back in 1997, The New York Times highlighted a “Roundtable in Multimedia” attended by senior media executives. They lamented that apart from a few exceptions like pornography websites and Amazon, no one had cracked the code for a viable 'interactive' media business model. Fast forward to 2024, and Fable has launched Showrunner, a revolutionary platform known as the “Netflix of AI" , which allows users to create their own TV shows with just a few prompts. 📺✨ The way we create and consume content has evolved dramatically. But what does "interactive media" really mean today? We break it down, exploring how it intersects with massive shifts in technology, culture, and new media. And how with a growing "Swipe before Type" generation, there is now an ingrained expectation of interactivity in all digital experiences. We dive into the future of interactive media and gaming and see where we're headed next! Link in comments. #InteractiveMedia #Gaming #AI #TechRevolution #ContentCreation #NewMedia

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What do you think about the future of collectible products? 🔮 At Fanatics Fest, thousands of sports fans were introduced to collectibles in a big way, and I am excited about new ways that collectibles will be integrated into the fan experience, so I'm sharing a few thoughts in this video. 📽 What do you think the future of collectibles looks like? Share in the comments below. ⬇ #thehobby #whodoyoucollect #sportscards #topps #paniniamerica #panini #basketballcards #tradingcards #baseballcards #nba #footballcards #psa #rookiecard #mlb #nfl #cardcollector #rookie #baseball #autograph #upperdeck #cards #basketball #football #sports #sportscardsforsale #cardcollection #collect #nbacards #sportscardscollector #rookiecards #HobbyShop #HobbyTrends #HobbyBusiness #SmallBusiness #RetailTrends #RetailBusiness  #alternativeassets #fanatics  #sportstech  #nhl #mls #collectibles #collecttech #cardshow #innovation #pokemon  #magicthegathering #ecommerce #retailtech #pos #square #shopify #clover #ecommerce #marketing #business #digitalmarketing #ecommercebusiness #entrepreneur #onlineshopping #website #seo #webdesign #b #marketingdigital #socialmedia #onlinebusiness #fashion #branding #shopify #smallbusiness #socialmediamarketing #webdevelopment #online #amazon #shopping #onlinestore #onlineshop #design #instagram #ecommercewebsite #wordpress #dropshipping

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Are you making ad budget decisions without the full picture? Key Insights from Elizabeth Greene, Junglr: -- Focusing solely on the ad console can lead to misguided optimisations, missing the broader context of product performance and account health. -- For example, a product with a total ACOS of 25% may need to be reduced to 15% simply increasing budgets based on ad console data can worsen total ACOS issues. -- It’s important to analyse the performance of specific campaigns and their impact on overall sales and market share before making budget decisions. -- A product-first perspective is essential for understanding how ad spend contributes to a product’s success and where optimisations should be made. #Amazon #Optimisation #Ecommerce #Marketing #DigitalMarketing #Listing #sales #Seller #Product #Advertising

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Check out our curated list of #MarTech and #AdTech startups that have received funding. You can access the Marketing and Advertising funded startups list at any time! Link to the list https://lnkd.in/ehwz2_tg #startup #startups #vc #venturecapital #investmentbanking #privateequity #managementconsulting #b2b #founders #entrepreneurs

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This is an interesting move. Yet another signal that the $170b+ app ecosystem is in for a shake up as the Digital Markets Act and other similar legislations open the app distribution and payments ecosystem.

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It's been a four-year journey 🤔 Curious about how it all started? # Chapter 1 - (100 Videos in a Minute and an Almost Enterprise Pilot) # Back in 2020, while reading an article about Google DeepMind’s experiments with turning webpages into videos, a simple yet groundbreaking thought struck me: What if every text in the world could be transformed into videos? While we initially offered these Social Widgets for websites, We learned from early users that not all businesses had websites, but almost all of them were active on Instagram and Facebook. I was fascinated by the portability of video formats, realizing that our widgets could live in many environments, not just the web. Curiously, this epiphany came just as I was diving into marketing trends for 2021, which proclaimed short video content as king. Coming from a front-end development background, we were seasoned in dressing data with user-friendly interfaces. But was creating a video any different? Initially, I thought of it as just adding a "moving front-end" at 24 frames per second 😅 Oh, how naive I was! I lately learned that videos had many more dimensions: - storytelling - script - voiceover - music - media Not to mention the processing time and server-side costs. (In the early days, my partner Alberto Roman cautioned me about the complexities of video production. I was eager to push ahead quickly, but I soon realized the value of his insights. Looking back, I'm profoundly grateful for his patience and understanding as we navigated those challenges. ) I posed a challenge to Kenazo Anthony and Yulier Camilo Garrido Garrido: "Can we generate 100 videos in a minute?" They nailed it, using some AWS magic that has become a core part of our secret sauce to this day. We also brought on Luis Ernesto Reynaldo Jordan to design and implement a landing page with static data to showcase predefined videos created by Jorge Sibila and Emmanuel Arias Ibarra for demo purposes. Following this, Julio Jimenez and Olga Roman crafted our first UI and Bel Koffman as our business development rep (really shined—she's a rock star at it.). With such a dynamic team and cutting-edge product, the stage was set to conquer the world. I reached out to knowledgeable friends in product, marketing, and sales for feedback. Thanks to Darren D. Sturges, Philip Rothaus, Jonathan Liu, Marcela Ganem, Simon Yule and many others. They helped shape our early ideas, and we almost landed a big enterprise project because of it. Our first version of the product was simple—an Excel file. Each row had video specs. Fill in the columns, and suddenly, you have as many videos as rows. But during a user interview, Jonathan Liu pointed out a big gap: "Ok, guys, we can make 100 videos now, but how do we link everything? Where does the info come from?" It took us until January 2023 to crack that code. To be continued... Drop a comment if you're curious about how we solved it! :)

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I think "local at scale" #marketing is the future of brand marketing. Where-to-buy-nearby coupled with real-time #local inventory and #clickandcollect will surely delight online shoppers.

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What are your thoughts on the future of collectibles? 🔮 At Fanatics Fest, thousands of sports fans were introduced to collecting for the first time. Here's a quick video with my thoughts on how collectible products are going to evolve. What do you think is the most exciting thing that will happen in collectibles in the next few years? Share in the comments below. ⬇ #thehobby #whodoyoucollect #sportscards #topps #paniniamerica #panini #basketballcards #tradingcards #baseballcards #nba #footballcards #psa #rookiecard #mlb #nfl #cardcollector #rookie #baseball #autograph #upperdeck #cards #basketball #football #sports #sportscardsforsale #cardcollection #collect #nbacards #sportscardscollector #rookiecards #HobbyShop #HobbyTrends #HobbyBusiness #SmallBusiness #RetailTrends #RetailBusiness  #alternativeassets #fanatics  #sportstech  #nhl #mls #collectibles #collecttech #cardshow #innovation #pokemon  #magicthegathering #ecommerce #retailtech #pos #square #shopify #clover #ecommerce #marketing #business #digitalmarketing #ecommercebusiness #entrepreneur #onlineshopping #website #seo #webdesign #b #marketingdigital #socialmedia #onlinebusiness #fashion #branding #shopify #smallbusiness #socialmediamarketing #webdevelopment #online #amazon #shopping #onlinestore #onlineshop #design #instagram #ecommercewebsite #wordpress #dropshipping

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If anyone is in North County San Diego, on Thursday May 2nd, we will be hosting a tech entrepreneur and investor meet up at 5:30pm. We’ll have a couple speakers, one of which is a fin-tech start-up raising a round, followed up by a presentation on the state of the stock & crypto market. We host these events quarterly and usually get a lot of founders and investors to attend. If anyone is interested, please message me and I can send you the details. LaunchPad San Diego #startups #startupincubator #entrepreneur #investing #crypto #meetup

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Trust and transparency is key to business growth and one must play by the book always 👍

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This is not your typical podcast episode. We just went deep on all the web3 growth strategies we're seeing work today! Definitely one you won't want to miss. Thanks for having me, Jax!

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AdAttributionKit: Unpacking Apple’s new ad attribution framework AAK unifies Apple’s various advertising attribution frameworks under a single umbrella product name and extends SKAdNetwork in meaningful ways, including with support for re-engagement and alternative app marketplaces. These are substantive improvements. But impediments to adoption remain: IP-based attribution is still widely viewed as a suitable alternative to Apple’s native iOS attribution framework, meaning that platform tools like Conversion APIs will take adoption priority.

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Roblox has been Hindenburged. Cause for concern? Yes. But a slam dunk short? Not convinced. Here's my immediate thoughts on some of the points: Overinflated Metrics: 24%-42% of actual people DAU versus accounts. Roblox does disclose this, and has been asked about this as the report notes, but it does look misleading to call it "people" in other contexts IF the discrepancy is that much. Toxic (and worse) Content: This is bad. It's always horrible to see this kind of content on a platform with such young users. However it depends on how pervasive it is and how much is due to negligence from Roblox. Not clear to me they demonstrated that, but equally surprising to see how easy they could find explicit content. Never Made a Profit: This analysis seemed pretty surface level for a high growth company, I'd have liked to see more detail. Didn't look at bookings, took cash flow multiple from FactSet and just a comment on large stock based comp. Bookings growth largely tracks DAU growth so the issue would be with the absolute number. Overvalued vs Comparables: Looking at Take Two, EA, and Nintendo is overly simplistic. These are not similar businesses. Having said that, it's not an easy one to compare. https://lnkd.in/ekMiQiMA

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What role does contextual AI play in shaping the future of advertising? As end-users and technology companies increasingly prioritize privacy, contextual AI is poised to emerge as the primary tool for advertisers as it focuses on aligning the right messaging with the right context, making it essential for brands' future success. Kartal Goksel, CTO at Seedtag, believes that context reigns supreme when it comes to effective advertising. While the industry has typically depended on keywords and phrases to gauge context, he argues that a more nuanced, human understanding of context is crucial as this approach considers the broader meaning of words within the context of an article. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/e3aBPiYQ #ContextualAI #ConsumerPrivacy #ContextualAdvertising

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AI-first fatigue is overwhelming us as Mitch Grothaus points out here: https://lnkd.in/g5ryKVq4. It's time we helped buyers understand how products use AI and GenAI. Does a company train its own LLMs or develop its own RAG models or does it just provide a thin veneer over APIs provided by LLM vendors? Would a framework that anyone can use to evaluate vendor claims help? A similar effort in the IT services industry (https://lnkd.in/gf-633dq) years ago helped IT departments understand the capabilities of IT service vendors, morphed into an ISO standard and ultimately created a larger market for IT services. Look for a follow up post that proposes a similar framework for GenAI applications! #AI #GenAI

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