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David Dunne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
219 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

So how many sources of data and how many specific streams you might pull.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

So, for example, if you're pulling in Google data, you might have 20 brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

That would be 20 streams of data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

Same source, but 20 different streams for 20 different brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

Well, the API call is how we bring in the data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

So we use API calls.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

Our customers can also manually upload the data, bring it in through email, bring it in from many other ways, FTP calls and whatnot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

But regardless of how you bring it in, it's the number of data streams determines the volume of data that you're ultimately going to have in the platform, how much is moving around, and therefore how much it should cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

Yeah, we started in my kitchen with sketching it out at the end of 2009, and then we launched in 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

And like a lot of young companies, we started with a very clear idea that we wanted to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

use data to make marketing smarter, better, faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

But we had to kind of find our way to the right product that the market would actually adopt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

And the way we did that was to work very closely with customers over a period of years to actually develop a product that was tailor-made for them, really.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

I have a couple of folks who've been here from the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

Jan Reg, who's a Norwegian chap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

He's been here from the very beginning, and then a series of people came in in 2011 and 12.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

He and I worked together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

I ran a global business prior to this for Edelman.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

I built their digital business from the ground up, and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?

a couple of years prior to starting this business, young came in, we had bought a couple of businesses and merged and I merged three or four different businesses together over a very short period of time.