Gail Axelrod
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Inside Zoom’s Relentless Focus on Customer Experience
In the Season 1 finale of #Exceptions, host Jay Acunzo goes inside a seemingly ubiquitous brand in the business world today: Zoom. In talking to the company’s CEO Eric Yuan and head of marketing Janine Pelosi, we learn why they refuse to settle for conventional wisdom and how they orient their team to push past […]
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Slack Overload, Big Rocks, And Making Time For What Matters
Alright. If you’re into personal productivity (and getting more stuff done at work) then this episode of Seeking Wisdom is for you. DC and DG talk about Slack and a recent shift in how we’re communicating internally at Drift, plus lessons from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and a new book […]
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Why Copywriting & Storytelling Are Key To Product Management
It’s a special crossover episode of Build! And the first episode in our brand new dedicated feed (subscribe here to stay up to date when new episodes drop). Today’s guest? Dave Gerhardt, Drift’s VP of Marketing. Dave discusses his one week spent as a product manager at Drift plus, the real meat of this episode […]
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Choosing the Metric that Matters, Pirate Metrics & Mapping Your Funnel
Welcome to #Growth, a brand new podcast from Seeking Wisdom hosted by Matt Bilotti, Senior Product Manager on Drift’s Growth team. On our first episode, Matt digs into choosing the metric that matters. Plus, Pirate Metrics, mapping out your funnel and more. In this season you can expect to learn how to run growth experiments, […]
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Special Announcement: Meet the Brand New Podcast from Seeking Wisdom
We’ve got some exciting news from Drift and the Seeking Wisdom family of podcasts! We’re launching a brand new show called #Growth, hosted by Drift’s Matt Bilotti, Senior Product Manager on, you guessed it, our Growth team. His show covers everything from growth tactics, the metrics that really matter to your bottom line, funnel […]
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The 3 Types of Role Models Everyone Needs In Their Career
Mentors. Role Models. Learning from others. Those are topics we talk about regularly here on Seeking Wisdom – but there are actually 3 types of role models to follow and watch if you want to grow in your career, business, or personally. DC and DG break down Role Models, Reverse Role Models, Anti Role […]
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How to Be Heard: Casey Neistat on Marketing’s New Normal
Editor’s Note: The following transcript is from Casey Neistat’s HYPERGROWTH 2018 presentation. It has been edited and condensed for clarity. Ready for HYPERGROWTH 2019? You can preorder tickets here. In his talk at HYPERGROWTH, Casey touched on the following: The transformation that’s taken place in marketing and media over the last decade. Particularly, in order […]
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Julia Austin on the Making of a Great PM – Lessons from Harvard Business School, Digital Ocean, VMWare & Akamai
On this episode of #Build, board advisor and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, Julia Austin, shares her point of view on what makes a truly great product manager. How does she know? Well years of experience spent as CTO at Digital Ocean and VP of Engineering at VMWare and Akamai. Julia also opens […]
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The Most Crucial Leadership Principle Most B2B Brands Miss
In this episode of #Exceptions, a revelation about leadership and team happiness and retention in B2B. Indianapolis startup Lessonly teaches us about the communication principle most needed but often overlooked across the corporate world. It’s one that explains why customers send Lessonly unsolicited letters praising them, and why the company’s VP of Marketing spent a […]
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The Power of Decision: Rich Roll on How to Unleash the Best Version of Yourself
Editor’s Note: The following transcript is from Rich Roll’s HYPERGROWTH 2018 presentation. It has been edited and condensed for clarity. Ready for HYPERGROWTH 2019? You can preorder tickets here. In his talk at HYPERGROWTH, Rich touched on: His epic transformation from alcoholic to unhappy, unhealthy corporate lawyer to vegan ultra-marathoner. Through all this transformation, Rich came […]
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The Most Important Management Book Of All-Time
On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, DC and DG discuss former Intel CEO Andy Grove and his book High Output Management – which just might be one of the most important management books of all-time. Plus DC shares one secret tell that will show you who your next great manager might be. You can […]
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How to Realign Your Enterprise Sales Team in the Age of Conversational Selling: A Conversation with Board Advisor & Sales Leader Chris Reisig
Let’s take a little trip down Sales Memory Lane. You’re a BDR or SDR cold calling prospects. Maybe you’re lucky enough to get one in 100 people to pick up the phone. But when they do, the prospect doesn’t even know why they’re being called. Then comes the heavy lift, especially for an inexperienced rep, […]
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