Founder & Chairman, @Qnary | Global Marketer | Speaker | Board Member
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AI is becoming another audience for corporate communications. As LLMs influence how people find companies, products, and expertise, communications teams need to understand how AI systems interpret what they publish. axios.com/2026/10/13/communi…
It's not glamorous, but "Write everything down" is the advice that saved me as a first-time founder.
Do yourself and your team/clients a favor and document it all. A good rule of thumb: If it's too important to forget, put it in writing.
Quite a night with Qnary and Edge Studio! David Goldberg got into how the way we speak can change how people receive what we’re saying. We also recorded Uncaged live from the studio, which was a ton of fun. A remarkable evening!
In my experience, the most successful founders treat their companies as living systems. They adapt them to how people actually operate, and that means moving away from rigid, hierarchical structures.
Humans don't stop being humans when they step into an office.
AI adoption moved faster than AI education. In 2020, 18% of respondents said their company offered AI training. By 2025, it was 58.7%.
That’s progress, but AI education needs to be a bigger part of the investment.
See my full study here: bantbreen.com/
Interesting research from Inc.: for technical topics, 38% of knowledge workers would rather hear from a specialized leader than the CEO.
At Qnary, we work with plenty of CEOs, but also people throughout organizations with expertise worth sharing. inc.com/michael-kaye/ceos-th…
Happy Podcast Day to all the creators out there. I started The Uncaged Show 5 years ago because I wanted to give the thought leaders I work with every day the chance to go deeper.
I never expected I'd learn so much!
Give it a listen: uncagedshow.com
Gen Z are highly connected online, but lack the confidence to build their professional networks IRL.
64% say no one has clearly shown them how to build professional relationships, leaving many unsure who to approach or when to reach out.
Full study: shorturl.at/rCvHm
It's been fascinating to watch how creator partnerships have changed over the past few years. Now that brands have realized just how strategically minded these creators are, they're willing to give them real input & stakes.
It's an incredibly smart play. digiday.com/media/for-brands…
Next week in Philly, I will be joined by Joe Benarroch of the NYSE to kick off the day with a Fireside Chat.
A curated experience for candid conversation, meaningful connections, and practical insights. Seating is limited to senior marketing executives: cmoexchange.com/event/cmo-ex…
One of my biggest takeaways from Meltwater and LinkedIn’s new research is that true expertise beats your follower count every time. What you publish doesn't have to go viral or come from someone with hundreds of thousands of followers; it just needs to say something worth citing.
Next week, we're bringing CMO Exchange to Philadelphia with Digital Summit. Excited to get some great marketing minds in the room.
Still time to request your invite here! cmoexchange.com/event/cmo-ex…
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UPDATE: Capitol Hill rumor mill is saying the likelihood of CLARITY act passing is near zero.
It's currently 18% on Polymarket & but its really likely more like a 3-5% chance.
From what I understand, everyone in DC somewhat assumes that CLARITY is not going to pass, but they can't publicly say this because the industry has invested tens of millions of dollars and 18 months of resources on trying to get it through.
It’s just not going to happen from what I hear.
There's still no answer to this ethics question for Trump’s dealings in crypto, from the Democrats. Based on that, the odds of passing on prediction markets are probably pretty high and seems like 'No' is potentially interesting.
CLARITY will instead be more or less ‘drafted as separate bills’ focusing on specific sectors of the crypto market.
These could be innovation exemptions, acts, or bills that are focused on stablecoins, tokenization, perpetual futures, and prediction markets coming shortly after CLARITY failed. They prefer take a nuanced approach rather than a massive, wide-reaching crypto bill at this current point.
That is what is much, much more likely to happen from what I understand from folks in DC.
TLDR;
CLARITY likely out but no one will admit it, innovation exemptions are in, and they are far under discussed for their significance to open the doors for all of finance to come oncain.
UPDATE: Things are moving quickly right now and we’re rather confident in hearing that Cathie Wood’s ARKInvest is going to be one of the first asset managers to go live with tokenized securities via a transfer agent as part of the SEC innovation exemption.
Starting with ARK funds, and then more.
Fidelity, WisdomTree, and several others are likely as well.
You heard it here first.
She practically called on our show back in Q2…full episode below.
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Throwing it back to a great conversation with Rebecca Metzler about the “brand robot” problem. Companies can tell a coordinated story without asking every executive to sound the same. Their expertise, networks and individual voices are the advantage. linkedin.com/pulse/enterpris…
81% of executives say CEO public engagement is important to company reputation.
You don’t have to be an influencer. You just have to be willing to communicate openly.
Source: shorturl.at/CHtWr
When I conducted this research in 2020, people in communications largely saw AI assisting with data, organization, and optimization. Five years later, none of those tasks appear in the top five.
That makes learning how to work with AI much more important. The opportunity isn't to hand those parts of the job over to AI, but to understand how it can contribute and how we can work alongside it to get somewhere we may not have reached on our own.