In this conversation, Seth and Chime CMO Vineet Mehra talked about the CAC (customer acquisition cost) valley of death, explaining unit economic payback, and how a CFO’s willingness to invest money—especially when they don’t understand the consequences of not investing it—can effect growth for good or ill.

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In this episode, Seth talks with Frank Cooper, who has been the CMO at Visa, Blackstone, and Buzzfeed about causation, correlation and dispelling the myth that marketing doesn’t drive commercial outcomes.

Here's a link to the article mentioned around 3:40: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethmatlins/2024/12/16/marketing-that-fails-to-consider-the-human-context-is-out-of-context/

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For this conversation, Seth sits with Ally Financial’s Chief Marketing and PR Officer Andrea Brimmer for a wide-ranging conversation about what can either facilitate or get in the way of marketing’s role in value creation, the false narrative that’s been painted of CMO tenure specifically and the CMO generally, and the relentless pace of change—cultural and otherwise—today’s marketers are supposed to keep up with.

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