President at Interluxe. Former CEO at adMixt (acquired). Former CEO @ Metric Digital (acquired). Paid growth for Vuori, Marine Layer, Figs, Glossier, PrizePicks
Nashville, TN
Joined April 2011
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Luxury growing as a sector and the K shaped economy supports this (correct) take
Some people are claiming technology will lead to a post scarcity society. That's the kind of idea that only someone who doesn't understand human nature could ever believe.
Humans are mimetic and status seeking. They will always pursue things that are relatively rare to signal their status to others.
I don't know what those particular things will be in the future. But I know there will always be things that are in very high demand precisely because they are scarce.
Technology might be able to bring us robots and collapse the cost of many consumer products. But it won't change our underlying nature and desires.
With all the layoffs, we have a bunch of open roles for people who will understand my Mr Holland’s Opus references
If an agency doesn’t have a great track record of performance and is selling you AI enabled strategy, they’ve just figured out how to be bad, faster
baseball is not a serious sport cus every how to get better next year take is get more hits and better pitching. wow, so much strategy.
Do you get to pick your fighter pilot name or do they give you one? Asking for a friend named Crackerjack
Millennials who were raised on whiny emo pop punk are already starting to Boomer with the “back in my day” nostalgia posting due to their kids starting to grow up and I should have seen that coming
We’re doing an account audit for a brand and the current agency has lost two brands to us in the last few months. We knew the issues before we even connected because they run every account the same and suck at Google/Youtube.
Thought leader posting CEO seeing all the churn:
Shout out to the people that reach out every 6 months to ask for marketing advice, you give it, they don't take it, and they repeat this every 6 months.
Every time I see a brand or agency founder post a started with nothing now I’ve made it post I think of this scene.
I get that it works for new business and I don’t find it embarrassing. I find it boring.
When I moved to Nashville from San Diego this year and saw a doctor I said "I could definitely lose 15 lbs and be in better shape" and he paused, looked at me, and said "ha, you're in the top 1% of health in Tennessee"
My wife told me to get a new doctor...
It's so ridiculous the replies you get when you post yourself lifting
We both lift in the top 1% of the entire population and we both get those types of replies
I think people are
1) grossly misinformed by the general state of society's health
2) overestimating their own strength (yeah I did this PR once 10y ago)
3) some are actually athletic or personal trainer types so yeah more ripped
4) people don't understand that most fitness bodies are on gear and not natty
This is the #1 movie on Apple TV 4 years later btw
I’m hosting a dinner for 12-13 figure founders in Gary Indiana at a foreclosed crack den.
there is no sponsors, no panel, no media.
have 8 more seats left, average annual debt is 200m (rented cars, watches, boats etc.)
We have a nice ratio of founders from DTC / Telehealth / Saas / AI
Who wants to come to dinner?
Most marketing commentary on here can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. Primary gets bookmarked and studied, whether it’s from brands or agencies.
Secondary gets attention, cus it’s discourse about the topic, and doesn't add depth to the topic itself.
Try not to be a Secondary person or engage with them.