As MarTech editors, we live and breathe marketing technology as you would expect. Nevertheless itâs refreshing to occasionally look up from the latest composable CDP or genAI-powered chatbot and see a bigger picture â issues that affect marketers, even if not only marketers.
I had the opportunity to do so in my recent conversation with Phil Schraeder, CEO of GumGum, a conversation I expected to be about Pride, but which ranged over all kinds of intersectional topics, including Philâs awareness that even as a gay man he still has white male privilege when he walks into an investorâs meeting.
Almost a sequel to that piece is my interview with Black woman founder Octavia Goderema which is both inspirational and hard-headed. She is in the middle of pre-seed fund-raising for her startup; sheâs fully aware of the challenges she faces; but what way is there other than forward?
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Kim Davis
Editor at large
