
After more than 25 years in tech marketing, the Brazilian operator has a blunt prescription for the empty pipeline: stop treating marketing and sales as neighboring countries.

After five sales and marketing leadership posts, Kackley stopped treating pipeline problems as a collection of tactics. Her Cincinnati firm, Swivel, is the operating system she wished those teams had shared.
Sky Yang is the co-founder and CEO of Imagine AI (YC F25), a San Francisco company that reverse engineers B2B growth by building coordinated content systems for executive teams on LinkedIn. Before startups, he was the youngest-ever elected student body president at UC San Diego, where he represented 32,000 students and helped secure $150M in state housing funding, and he founded the pandemic-era nonprofit Break the Outbreak, which grew to 400+ people across 53 cities and 18 states.