Zia Daniell Wigder

In the next episode of the Duran Inci Podcast, we delve into the true nature of innovation with guest Alex Berg, exploring how it extends far beyond the pursuit of profit. Our conversation will uncover how a deep-seated desire to challenge the status quo can yield extraordinary and widespread impacts. We will examine the crucial decisions that ambitious individuals face, revealing how embracing daunting challenges can profoundly influence one's trajectory. Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned executive, or simply intrigued by the dynamics of transformative change, this episode will equip you with valuable insights into the art of pushing boundaries and redefining possibilities. Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of what drives innovation and how it shapes the future. #DrivingInnovation #MoreThanProfit #EntrepreneurialDrive #EmbraceChallenges #ShapeTheFuture #TechInnovation #LeadershipInsights #StartupJourney #AgentsOfChange #ExpandBoundaries

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🚀 "We built Unloop Connect to support the founders who are really feeling the pinch," Michael Pignatelli reveals. As I dove deep into the everyday challenges that emerging brands face on Amazon with Michael Pignatelli, CPA, MAcc, Co-Founder of Unloop Accounting, it was clear that the path to simplifying e-commerce finance is more vital than ever. Michael's insights into accounting automation and the strategic use of Unloop Connect are game-changers for any brand looking to navigate the complexities of Amazon's marketplace efficiently. Michael's dedication to making high-quality accounting accessible reflects our mission at ExpertCPG Commerce—to empower brands with the tools and strategies they need to thrive on Amazon without getting bogged down by the details. How has automating mundane tasks changed the way you manage your business? What results have you seen from integrating new technologies? 🎧📺 Listen or Watch the Full Episode here: https://ecpg.us/3Qhk2pN #CPG #ecommerce #Amazon #podcast #UnloopAccounting #businessgrowth #financialmanagement

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The latest isssue of HPC Today is published by the great tks | publisher, event organiser, media agency. Here's the surfactants insights column. "Will LAS be Replaced?" This is a really easily readable online magazine format. Check it out. Many peer reviewed articles in here also (not my opinion pieces, I hasten to add) #surfactants #alkybenzene

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The benefits of MIT Sloan Executive Education - In my inbox this morning - Thinking Forward Microsoft chief scientist: To make the most of gen AI, use your imagination 1. Can lending standards be too tight for too long following an economic shock? New research from MIT Sloan professor Jonathan Parker and colleagues indicates that can be the case when banks go the extra mile to screen out bad borrowers. The researchers’ findings suggest that some of the persistence of tightness after a shock is self-inflicted. When banks try to protect themselves by increasing their due diligence in evaluating potential borrowers, they set off a chain reaction whereby other banks do the same and increase the credit crunch in two ways: By not funding people who are less creditworthy, tighter standards worsen the overall quality of the pool of potential borrowers, which in turn creates an even bigger incentive for banks to employ tight standards in the future. In a good market, lending standards are inefficient when they’re too tight. They amplify and prolong downturns, decrease overall lending, and increase credit spreads. If the market is in good shape, less due diligence makes more sense, said Parker, co-director of the MIT Consumer Finance Initiative. “The chances that [a loan] will fail are very small. Some of them will default and lose a little bit of money, but that will be a rare event,” he said. 2. How much will artificial intelligence affect productivity in coming years? Writing recently in the Financial Times [subscription required], columnist Soumaya Keynes observed that there have been several attempts to estimate the effects of generative AI on annual productivity growth, “with pretty varied results.” Goldman Sachs last year estimated that in rich countries, generative AI could increase productivity by about 1.5 percentage points over a decade. McKinsey predicted that generative AI could deliver an increase of 0.1 to 0.6 percentage points between 2023 and 2040. And, more recently, MIT professor Daron Acemoglu calculated a boost over the next decade of, at most, 0.2 percentage points and suggested that over the next decade, around 5% of tasks will be profitably replaced or augmented by AI. “Some uncertainty is, of course, healthy,” Acemoglu said of the change brought on by AI, since “we are at the very, very beginning of it.”   MIT Sloan Office of Communications Building E90, 9th Floor 1 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 #AI #mit #misinformation

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This shows what regulators, industry and Google thinks. Also interesting to see: 🔥What do consumers think about "privacy preserving" actions of the ad industry??? 🔥 🔥 We in the ad industry often tout our efforts to protect privacy, but do consumers see through the facade? "   The research cites attempts to dive into the reality of consumer perceptions regarding our 'privacy preserving' actions."   Spoiler: consumers aren't buying it either!!   ❓ What’s what: A study at the Federal Trade Commission Privacy Con explored consumer perceptions of #onlineadvertising #privacy. Led by Klaus Miller, it surveyed ~1700 US consumers, analyzing both intrinsic and instrumental privacy aspects. https://lnkd.in/e7B8i4dg   ❗ Why it matters: Results: While PETs like the Google Privacy Sandbox offer technical improvements, they do not necessarily enhance consumer perceptions of privacy. Behavioral targeting was found to significantly violate consumers' intrinsic privacy preferences, while contextual targeting viewed more favorably.   ↔ Between the lines: Despite efforts to enhance privacy through PETs consumer perceptions of privacy violations remain largely unchanged. While keeping data on the consumer's device improves perceptions, the method of targeting—whether at the individual or group level—it does not significantly impact perceived privacy violations.   🔍 Zooming out: This underscores the need for a consumer-centric approach to online privacy. The industry needs to prioritize consumer perceptions and educate them about privacy practices to align technical solutions with consumer expectations. It's essential to prioritize the perception of consumers over the interests of big tech, steering away from broken ad tech models towards more transparent and privacy-conscious practices.   #advertising #marketing #brands #agencies #adtech #martech #cookieless #privacy #dataprivacy #consent Net Net.....Another delay??? https://lnkd.in/eBaUrafw

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Is this the future of content creation? I created TellBrain.com to help the marketing teams at Crane Venture Partners portfolio companies to better understand the opportunities with GenAI in creating marketing content. From topic selection to published blog post (with hero image and resource links) in less than 5 minutes. #contentmarketing #aiexperiment

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Who will be the next supply chain consolidator? From 2011 to 2021, XPO scaled up from $70M to $20B, fueled by a combination of organic growth and 18 acquisitions. The model was extremely successful. But the supply chain ecosystem remains extremely fragmented. There is plenty of room for new consolidators to emerge as winners. In the food supply chain software arena, one emerging acquiror is GrubMarket Inc. They have built a network model to help food suppliers automate their relationships with their customers. GrubMarket has acquired over 100 companies to date. They are expecting to exceed $2B in annualized revenue. And they just announced their latest purchase: Butter 🧈, a SaaS platform to automate food distribution. Kudos to Mike Xu, Winston C., and all involved! #logistics #supplychain #consolidation https://lnkd.in/emY4wpsy

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There are pieces we write that have industry-wide implications and this latest analysis about FT’s licensing deal with OpenAI is one of them. For that reason, I’m sharing it today with the broader industry. https://lnkd.in/gWMg7-EC

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The consumer news, brands, people, places, things that captured my attention last week: 1. Hims & Hers rolls out Ozempic and Wegovy dupes at 85% off — (from Fox Business) https://shorturl.at/TTEoK 2. E.l.f. Beauty surpasses $1 Billion in annual sales — (from BoF) https://shorturl.at/HAJzz 3. The BOF shared Volume 2 of The BoF Brand Magic Index and Dior is still on top — (on the BoF Instagram) https://shorturl.at/sPmJ4 4. Hannah Beals is in, a new SHE-EO alert at OUAI — (from WWD) https://shorturl.at/DD6GN 5. Grace Coddington is Merit’s newest face — why older women are the key to the brand’s success — (from Glossy) https://shorturl.at/Y8IlP 6. Bumble buys community building app Geneva to expand further into friendships — (from Tech Crunch) https://rb.gy/2nvbzj 7. How VCs are using podcasts to lure in founders — (from Vanity Fair) https://rb.gy/srg8el

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I love this! Thank you to Rachel Brown from Beauty Independent to kick-off this exchange with Andrew Ross' provocative thesis and have us all react to it. I truly enjoyed reading everyone's thoughts on the topic of the shortening lifecycle of beauty brands. Here is a snippet of mine: "Because beauty brand lifespans are shortening, it is important that we are able to differentiate brands with staying power from brands that will end up being a flash in the pan. There are much more of the latter than the former in the market right now, and if a brand is not well-positioned, it will be challenging for that brand to survive over the long-term. That’s why we focus on understanding each brand’s differentiators and long-term relevance." See more here: https://lnkd.in/esVbwnu2 and you will discover what Kevin Murphy, Odile Roujol, Rich Gersten, Tina Henry Bou-Saba, Oliver Nordlinger, Claire Chang, Manica Blain, Sonya Brown, George Birman had to say. #beautyindustry #beautyinvesting Stride Consumer Partners

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A really interesting and powerful performance management practice. "Use the “30-day test” to maintain a high-performance team. Create a reminder to ask yourself this question 30 days after someone joins the team: “Knowing what I know today, would I hire this person?” If the answer is yes, tell the person you’re excited about them and give them more equity—you’ll gain a lot of loyalty. If the answer is no, you need to fire them immediately, to avoid the inevitable damage they will cause to you, your team, and themselves." from Uri Levine Founder of Waze, via Lenny's podcast. https://lnkd.in/gyS2HzZP

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Join us for an important conversation next week about platform design and elections with Glenn E., Ravi Iyer, Kaili L., and Nicole Schneidman - how is tech getting in the way and/or facilitating election integrity? 🤔 https://lu.ma/59uxawc5

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More interesting ethics questions and copyright ramifications to tackle through the expanding access of #AI to both public and semi-private data sources. What does this mean for upstream content creators, authors and publishers? Is OpenAI is telling publishers give up the content or get left behind or is this just the next logical step? #AIPrivacy #Privacy #copyright #innovation #AI

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👷‍♀️ Sara Dickhaus de Zárraga is a founder, operator, and financier who has traveled the world and uncovered the inner machinations of global economies & technologies to bring us a better future. 🛠 It's W10 / Q2 / 2024 and this week in our MGMT Boston up & coming operator series we’ve got Sara, who serves as the newly appointed VP of Growth at RapidSOS, an intelligent safety platform transforming public safety. From investment banking to the World Bank to recent startup founder and now startup growth leader, Sara has built teams and companies that grew to $3M in revenue with 30,000 customers, selling out of inventory multiple times during a very challenging time in the world to create physical products. Sara is joining RapidSOS in a newly created role of VP Growth, building a small team to identify and execute on growth opportunities via new partnerships, new markets, and product innovation. It’s a great role for a former founder and executive leader experienced in creating big commercial opportunities in a greenfield. 📝 Shorthand Design for Better Goal Setting 📝 From investment banking to international finance to startup founder, Sara has had to learn to adapt quickly. Over countless examples, she has taken ideas and “made them into things” quickly. One of the frameworks that has helped her move fast, but also keep perspective, is shorthand goal setting. For example, when Flare needed to reposition their entire GTM strategy around COVID, they challenged themselves to “go try and sell 1,000 units in 3 months”.  That exercise helped them reposition the business effectively, learn about a new customer cohort, and pare down secondary initiatives that didn’t align with the all important “right now”. Paring back to what’s essential keeps a small, scrappy & effective team moving forward! 3 Career Insights / Learnings 📶 Building a Portfolio of Skills - “No one takes a linear path. I’ve changed my mental framework to say I’m building this portfolio of skills that are all helping me work toward the bigger goal of what I want to know and who I want to be as a person” ⏳ Time is the Biggest Resource - “Time is the ultimate currency and spending it effectively in your life and career is crucial. No amount of money can buy it back. It’s ok to spend that currency early in your career in return for learning, but as you move through your life continue to ask yourself how best to spend it” 😊 Find Connection - “Finding a way to connect to what you’re passionate about and what’s meaningful is not ‘one size fits all’. You can get creative and find joy in many different ways. Go out and find it to enjoy the ride. People and culture ultimately matter most at the end of the day” If you’d like to learn more about Sara’s career, full post is linked in the comments. Go ahead and sign up for the newsletter to see the operator learnings we bring you in the weeks ahead too, will ya? #bostontech #operators #growth

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Today is a great day for the future of digital marketing in the world, as Ibotta, Inc. founded by Bryan Leach raised $577 million in IPO. Every founder has some inspirations. David Vélez had Capital One as one of his inspirations for Nubank. Being a much more mature market for entrepreneurship and innovation, the US has several benchmarks for Brazilian startups. As someone encounters a problem worth solving in our country, it is natural and wise to think someone else might be actively tackling the same problem elsewhere, as the timing of our market is different. Ibotta, Inc.'s IPO represents a bright moment for everyone who believes and foresees that first-party data players are the next generation of digital marketing, consumer insights and loyalty. By the end of 2024, Google is shutting down third-party cookies on Google Chrome to adapt its policies to GDPR. Chrome has 75% of market share and this completely changes the dynamics of the market. Brands have no option: in order to create better audiences for their marketing campaigns, they must partner with players which can access behavioral data in different ways. I have been lucky enough to have had some 1:1 lunches with David Vélez in the early days of Nubank and I never forget some of his words: "when it comes to disruption opportunities, if you ever find a market that could not have access to data at scale because simply there was no technology to make it happen, by the time the technology is ready, you have your window of opportunity". In other words, he was explaining to me the concept of "why now" for a startup thesis. In Brazil, there are QR codes on purchase receipts that made the tech side of our thesis possible, allowing us to extract the data. The cookieless era is the cultural shift in the market we needed in order for brands to push the demand for a product like ours forward. Well done, Ibotta, Inc.! Your resilience and journey inspires us all. Let's get back to work. Link to the news: https://lnkd.in/dnfaMR9b #startups #digitalmarketing #ipo #exits

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Back in May Mark Stiving, Ph.D. at Impact Pricing LLC and Steven Forth at Ibbaka did a well received webinar on how new AI functionality is being priced. More than 500 people registered. This week, Mark and Steven connected again on the Impact Pricing Podcast. The conversation focused on a theme that had emerged in the webinar comparing the disruption of the SaaS model with the current generative AI disruption. Is generative AI disruption smaller or larger than the SaaS disruption? - For customers - For vendors - For pricing Mark and Steven have different views on this. https://lnkd.in/gjujda3d #podcast #pricing #SaaS #generativeAI #disruption

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