ALL EPISODE RECAPS

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Sep 30, 2026

The Accountability Gap: Why Agencies & Clients Keep Misunderstanding Each Other | Courtney Tierney

The agency-to-client gap is real — Courtney Tierney has crossed it more than once

Sep 23, 2026

The Best-of-Breed vs. Consolidation Debate Is Wrong | Vinicius Rodrigues

Vinicius Rodrigues cut six figures through consolidation, built an AI agent before the vendors had a name for it, and still says the question itself is the mistake.

Hot Seat

Sep 16, 2026

Lower Contract Sizes, Less Churn: The Dumb-Pipe Math MAP Vendors Refuse to Run | Peter Oleson

On the leadership-practitioner gap: 'Marketing ops people get it immediately. Leadership resists because they conflate dumb pipe with loss of strategic value'

Hot Seat

Sep 9, 2026

Who Becomes the First Modern Dumb Pipe & What It Means for Enterprise Martech | Peter Oleson

Peter Oleson on why the first modern platform to go 'dumb pipe' will reshape the competitive economics of email infrastructure.

Hot Seat

Sep 2, 2026

Worth the Wait: Why RCS Approval Queues Don't Have to Stall Your Messaging Strategy | Stephanie Griffith

Stephanie Griffith on why the 8-16-week RCS approval queue is actually the right moment to fix your SMS program

Hot Seat

Aug 26, 2026

Babylist Cut Newsletter Build Time by 87%: Then the Roadmap Expanded | Elizabeth Martin

On why 'efficiency' is the wrong frame: the real measure isn't volume of campaigns sent, it's whether each communication got meaningfully better."

Hot Seat

Aug 19, 2026

The Humans Behind the Stack | Phil Gamache

Most of this industry talks about the tech. Phil points the mic at the humans running it.

Breakdown

Aug 13, 2026

Icarus Met His Maker

Part two on OpenAI's influencer trip backlash: why we trust creators with no expertise, the WeWork playbook behind it, and what media literacy has to do with it.

ALL EPISODE RECAPS

We also send emails. You’ll open each one because they are unhinged and unexpected. Subscribe to receive!Below are straight-laced, educational recaps of every episode.

The Accountability Gap: Why Agencies & Clients Keep Misunderstanding Each Other | Courtney Tierney

The Best-of-Breed vs. Consolidation Debate Is Wrong | Vinicius Rodrigues

Lower Contract Sizes, Less Churn: The Dumb-Pipe Math MAP Vendors Refuse to Run | Peter Oleson

Who Becomes the First Modern Dumb Pipe & What It Means for Enterprise Martech | Peter Oleson

Worth the Wait: Why RCS Approval Queues Don't Have to Stall Your Messaging Strategy | Stephanie Griffith

Babylist Cut Newsletter Build Time by 87%: Then the Roadmap Expanded | Elizabeth Martin

The Humans Behind the Stack | Phil Gamache

Icarus Met His Maker

We also send emails. You’ll open each one because they are unhinged and unexpected. Subscribe to receive!

Below are straight-laced, educational recaps of every episode.