2003 Branding CTO 
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 18, 2016
There was initially huge resistance to Adwords at Google – from engineering, because they worked hard to provide relevant results, and from sales, who were selling key words to big brands and who were legitimately nervous about cannibalization. Adwords came close to not being built.
NextBigWhat
JANUARY 12, 2021
In 2000, brand new Sun servers started appearing on eBay for 10 cents on the dollar as VC-backed start-ups went out of business (this was pre-AWS when you had to roll your own datacenter). Amazon’s CTO was Rick Dalzell – ex-Walmart, hard-charging operator. And without that shift, AWS may never have happened.
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The Product Coalition
JULY 17, 2018
Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice Motto: We help brands & enterprises prepare for a future dominated by post-PC technologies Customer quotes: “Everything they’ve delivered so far has been very polished. CEO at MysteryVibe 4.
svpg
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
The new sales team, under Omid Kordistani, was off to a strong start selling keywords to large brands and placing the results at the top of the search results, highlighted as an ad, but still very prominent, much in the style that had been done in search results at other companies, including at Netscape where Omid came from.
Business of Software Conference
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
All of their data would run through our technology because at the other end of that there are brands and businesses that really wanted to understand what was happening on social media; what was happening around their brand, their industry, their market. We had one of our execs in our New York office.
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