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Chris Meyer and the business of getting people in the same room
He started in hotel convention services. Now Chris Meyer leads Project Worldwide, bringing independent agencies together around a lesson learned long before his first marketing brief: pay attention to the people in the room.
Mario Muredda and the value of changing your mind
He left a doctorate unfinished and built a career in advertising. Now, as Global CEO of Ogilvy Health, Mario Muredda is asking what happens when talented people stop working in separate rooms.
Cosmos wants you to save first. Make sense of it later.
The visual discovery company is betting that taste grows through collecting, searching, and following curious people. Its most revealing product decision was to stop asking users to organize every spark before they could keep it.
Ceros wants your best ideas out of the waiting room
The company made interactive content a job for designers, then rebuilt the machinery underneath it. Its wager: a good campaign should reach the web before the committee loses its nerve.
Ziflow takes on ‘just one more round’
One customer cut average proofing rounds from three or four to 1.6. Ziflow’s business is built around a familiar creative headache: getting everyone to agree that the work is finished.
Air
Air is a New York-based creative operations platform - a system of record purpose-built for creative work. It helps marketing and creative teams collect, organize, search, review, approve, and share visual content, layering AI-powered tagging, conversational search, and creative intelligence on top of traditional digital asset management. Founded in 2017 by Shane Hegde and Tyler Strand, Air serves tens of thousands of creatives across thousands of businesses and has raised more than $70M in venture funding.
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson is the Cofounder and CEO of LucidLink, a San Francisco-based cloud-native file streaming platform that turns object storage into a native file system accessible from anywhere in real time. A Minnesota farm kid who spent 15 years navigating storage markets across Asia and the Americas at DataCore Software before returning to Stanford's GSB at age 48, Thompson teamed up with engineer George Dochev in 2016 to build what users still describe as 'magic.' LucidLink has since raised $120.6M in total funding including a $75M Series C led by Brighton Park Capital in 2023, grown ARR nearly 5x in two years, counts Warner Bros., Paramount, Adobe, and Shopify among its customers, and earned an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award from the Television Academy.