A CMO Confidential Interview with Greg Creed, Former CEO of Yum! Brands. Greg also served as CEO and CMO of Taco Bell, where he championed the "Think Outside the Bun" campaign. Greg discusses why executives are becoming less courageous, why brands are losing their distinctiveness, and why "sales overnight, brand over time" is the CMO's real job.

Key topics include:

- Why the brand and the people are the two biggest assets that never appear on the P&L

- Why winning awards won't make you a general manager

- The brand lessons behind spinning off Yum China

- Why culture determines whether people act on bold ideas

Tune in to hear how a 100th anniversary promotion ended with four tons of moldy soap in an Australian landfill.

⏱️ Chapters

2:17 - Business Trends and Executive Courage

8:03 - Evolution of the CMO Role

18:19 - Yum Brands and Franchising Insights

22:58 - Marketing Mistakes and Company Culture

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A CMO Confidential Interview with Dr. Dan McCarthy, marketing professor at the University of Maryland. Dan discusses how customer lifetime value and customer-based corporate valuation connect marketing to the CFO and Wall Street. He explores why paid delivery subscriptions such as DashPass and Instacart+ can create tension between company profits and consumer savings, why positive average savings can mask losses for many subscribers, and how AI agents can help consumers identify and cancel subscriptions that no longer pay off.

Key topics include:

- What credit and debit card data reveal about gambling behavior after states launch legal online sports betting

- The risks of using marketing algorithms to encourage heavier betting

- What Oura illustrates about the difference between strong unit economics and an attractive valuation

- Why combining paid and organic acquisition can hide the cost of scaling through paid channels

Tune in to hear how a family trip to New York turned into an unexpected Oura case study in Times Square.

⏱️ Chapters

0:00 - Intro

1:08 - Introduction to Customer Lifetime Value

7:01 - Loyalty Programs and Subscriptions

13:56 - AI Agents and Subscription Management

20:23 - Gambling and Prediction Markets Analytics

27:46 - IPOs, Oura, and Rent the Runway

38:41 - Final Advice and Closing Thoughts

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A CMO Confidential Interview with Tim Huelskamp, CEO and Co-Founder of 1440, a news and knowledge platform. Tim shares his thoughts on the idea that "just because all knowledge is available, doesn't mean all questions have been asked" and why the intersection of User Generated Content (UGC) and AI has created an opportunity to engage "knowledge obsessed consumers" in the middle of the marketing funnel.

Key topics include:

- How the AI revolution resembles the launch of the printing press

- Why brands shouldn't ignore the deep subject knowledge they possess

- The power of curiosity meeting well-curated information

Tune in to hear stories about wine, 401(k)s, and bioluminescent fish.

⏱️ Chapters

2:17 - The Power of Curated Content

7:05 - Curation versus Algorithmic Search

9:59 - Knowledge Serendipity and Market Demand

16:29 - The Curiosity Graph in Marketing

26:25 - Fact-Checking and Avoiding AI Slop

32:30 - A Private Equity April Fools Story

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