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Palash Soni and the business after the applause
Goldcast began with events. Palash Soni kept following what customers did after they ended - a trail from the webinar stage to video, AI and an acquisition by Cvent.
Kelly Cheng Is Building for the 95 Percent Who Aren’t Buying Yet
The Goldcast CMO made her name by treating marketing as a long game: earn trust before buyers raise their hands, turn events into durable stories, and let honest experiments beat tidy attribution theater.
Goldcast
Goldcast is an AI-first B2B video content platform that helps marketing teams host webinars and virtual events, then automatically turn those recordings into clips, blogs, social posts, and on-demand video that drive pipeline. Founded in 2020 by three Harvard Business School classmates during the pandemic shift to virtual events, the Boston-based company grew past $10M ARR serving 300+ B2B customers before being acquired by events giant Cvent in December 2025.
Sam Fahmy
Sam Fahmy is the President and CEO of Ripcord, the Hayward-based robotic digitization company turning paper archives into searchable, structured data. A physics major turned enterprise-software operator, he previously helped take Cvent from $2M to $400M+ in revenue and led commercial strategy at WorkFusion before taking the top job at Ripcord in February 2022.