Ted Glasnow

Within that overarching context, I think about this market as progressing in waves. We're on the tail end of wave one—wave one being this big resurgence, rebranding, or emergence of plant proteins.

Consumer marketplaces thrive on high frequency, and B2B marketplaces need tons of volume. 

We look at [the taxonomy of B2B marketplaces] in a couple of different ways. High-level, there are aggregators, managed marketplaces, channel marketplaces, vertical SaaS-enabled marketplaces, and then tech-enabled brokerages.

Type of company: Consumer subscription products; Most common North Star Metric: Engagement or customer growth

it's hard, as Salesforce, to re-architect your entire platform to be built on top of this notion of a cloud data warehouse, especially when all these other vendors have already built tools on top of your own platform. I'm not sure how you go from point A to point B there. 

Chief of Staff is usually an execution role, serving the leadership team. CBO is an extension of the leadership team, filling the gaps of the team

The ambition to be global from day one was very rare before Uber. This ambition requires a blitz-scaling mentality

You need to be able to draw insight and to structure that information such that people can then act on it. What is doing that? Today, transformation tools like dbt are doing that, if you take the lens of the data team really owning everything end-to-end, but I think also applications that are able to plug into the data warehouse, consume this raw i... See more