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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

That quote is from George Bernard Shaw, and hopefully is inspiration for anyone trying to make positive change in their organization.

I thought of that quote while reading a lesson in the podcast guest application for this episode’s guest – ‘change starts here.’

Different words, same sentiment. The status quo is tenacious. If you want change to happen, you need to be unreasonable. It needs to start with you.

To discuss the story behind that lesson, along with many more lesson-filled stories, I talked to Dan Garzia, Chief Marketing Officer, Provenance Blockchain Foundation (https://provenance.io/).

Provenance Blockchain Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports a public, open-source blockchain, used by 70 financial institutions, including fintechs, banks, and credit unions. More than $15 billion in financial asset transactions have been supported by Provenance Blockchain.

In his career, Garzia has managed teams as large as 80, up to 12 partners, and budgets as large as $110 million.

Stories (with lessons) about what he made in marketing

Some lessons from Garzia that emerged in our discussion:

• Progress beats perfection
• Make up for areas where you're not as strong
• Celebrate the win
• Network every day
• Change starts here
• Words matter

Related content discussed in this episode

Marketing Chart: How important customer-first marketing is to consumers (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/chart/customer-first-marketing-importance)

The Low-Hanging Fruit: 11 specific examples of small marketing and communication changes that drove big results (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/chart/customer-first-marketing-importance)

Optimization and A/B Testing: Why words matter (for more than just SEO) (https://marketingexperiments.com/conversion-marketing/optimization-and-testing-why-words-matter)

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Recent initial public offerings (IPOs) from food companies such as Cava Group and BranchOut Food might give the impression of a reawakening IPO market after a seemingly quiet year. In this episode of the Xtalks Food Podcast, Sydney talks about three food companies that have already gone public this year, including Cava Group, BranchOut Foods and Instacart. First, the Mediterranean fast casual chain Cava Group achieved a notable $4.7 billion valuation after a successful market introduction on June 15. Second, BranchOut Food Inc., a budding natural food brand with a proprietary technology for producing and marketing dehydrated plant-based foods, finalized its IPO in June. Lastly, in its Nasdaq introduction earlier this week, Instacart made a notable entrance, initiating trading at roughly 40 percent above its IPO price, nudging its market cap to approximately $11.1 billion. The team discusses the diversity of these food companies and wonders about the risks and rewards of going public versus staying private.

Also in this episode, Sydney talks about whether canola oil is banned in Europe since there’s been a flurry of questions circulating about the topic. While Europe has not completely prohibited canola oil, it has certainly placed the oil under a microscope, enacting stricter regulations around the sale of oils and fats, which impacts how canola oil is viewed and sold. Sydney discusses canola oil’s origins as well as rumors of a European canola oil ban. The word on the street was that the European Union (EU) had labeled canola oil as “toxic” and “carcinogenic” due to its allegedly hazardous fatty acid content. The EU’s heightened scrutiny of canola oil is largely due to concerns about its erucic acid content. Research has shown the potentially detrimental effects of erucic acid, including possible heart damage. So, while it isn’t outright banned, it’s closely monitored due to concerns around its erucic acid content. The team is surprised to hear about the potential negative side effects of canola oil and praises the EU for being a leader in food safety.

Read the full article here:

Food IPOs in 2023: Cava Group, BranchOut Food and Others

Is Canola Oil Banned in Europe? Unraveling the Truth

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In this episode, Vera interviews two experts from CytoMed Therapeutics: Mr. Choo Chee Kong, Chairman and Director; and Dr. Tan Wee Kiat, PhD, Chief Operating Officer.

Established in 2018, CytoMed is a biotechnology firm that originated from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore's premier public sector research and development agency. The goal of CytoMed is to develop efficient and cost-effective cellular immunotherapy solutions for solid tumors and hematologic cancers.

On April 14, 2023, CytoMed’s shares began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol "GDTC".

In this episode, Mr. Choo and Dr. Tan share insights about how CytoMed Therapeutics is aiming to engineer more affordable cellular cancer therapies. Dr. Tan discusses the advantages of “off-the-shelf” cell-based cancer immunotherapies. Mr. Choo describes the cellular therapies that are currently in CytoMed’s pipeline. 

The episode concludes with Mr. Choo and Dr. Tan sharing their thoughts about how the company’s initial public offering (IPO) will help them in their mission of developing off-the-shelf cell-based cancer immunotherapies.

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Biotech IPOs in 2023: Shaping the Future of Innovation

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“If the marketer does not know where to focus; then the prospect will not know where to focus,” Flint McGlaughlin taught in Customer-First Objectives Application Session: See real webpages optimized for marketing conversion (https://meclabs.com/course/lessons/customer-first-objectives-application-session/).

To help drive home this lesson for you, we found a great story of relentless focus from our next podcast guest. While at PayPal, he made it his mission to develop programs that would educate new customers about the product, and it took two years of relentless focus before his efforts paid off. It’s all too easy for marketers to chase the newest, shiniest object, so we wanted to inspire you with this story of enduring tenacity.

And that’s just one of the lesson-filled stories you’ll hear from our latest podcast guest – Dhiraj Kumar, Chief Marketing Officer, Dashlane (https://www.dashlane.com/). Kumar manages a team of 40 at the software company.

Stories (with lessons) about what he made in marketing

• Tenaciously focus on a few things until you solve them.  
• Be purposeful in creating and encouraging serendipity.
• Marketing is a craft that requires multidimensional thinking.
• Create space for failure.
• Approach customers like an engineer and solve their problems.

Related content mentioned in this episode
The Long-Term-Growth Product Launch: Cuisinart has been selling the same food processor since the ‘70s (Podcast Episode #13) – https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/long-term-growth-business

How I Made It In Marketing podcast – https://marketingsherpa.com/podcast – “When you mess up you think you are the only one messing up, right? It's amazing. And I love your podcast because you hear all these stories and like, that's what I went through. And there is something special about as a marketing community, commiserating and kind of sharing stories and kind of seeing we all have been through that journey,” Kumar said. 

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1. Intro.
2. (1:35) - Start of interview.
3. (2:22) - David's "origin story". He grew up as an "army brat" including living in Germany for about 10 years. He went to high school in West Point, NY. He stayed to go to college in Buffalo, where he also got his MBA. He left the Army and came to CA, where he ran IT for a company. He eventually went to law school first to Santa Clara, and then to UC Davis.
4. (4:17) - His experience joining Fenwick in 1997, "in the front-end of the dot-com boom getting started." "I learnt a lot in the bubble years, and it was a tremendous advantage to my career to have done that early on."
5. (5:32) - On the origin of Fenwick's Corporate Governance Surveys (published externally starting in 2007). "It was started to provide more than anecdotal advice to clients." The Mercury News published the SV150 List (a list of the largest Silicon Valley companies measured by revenue), and the idea was to compare and contrast that list with the S&P 100 (comprising 100 major blue chip companies across multiple industry groups.)
6. (11:41) - On boardroom diversity: The percentage of women directors is now almost identical for the SV150 (30.3%, up from 25.7% in 2020) and S&P 100 (30.2%, up from 28.7% in 2020). On the impact of institutional investors in this change, SB-826 and AB-979 in CA, and the Nasdaq's diversity rule. "Silicon Valley had been behind in gender diversity. Institutional investor attention was the largest driver of increasing gender diversity on boardrooms."
7. (16:15) - On dual-class share structures. The adoption of dual-class shares has emerged as a recent clear trend among Silicon Valley technology companies (from 2.9% in 2011 to 21.3% in 2021, as opposed to S&P 100 that where it decreased from 9% in 2011 to 8% in 2021). Per Prof. Jay Ritter data, 46.2% of all 2021 tech IPOs had dual class share structures.
8. (23:05) - On the prevalence (and complexities) of dual-class share structures in private companies.
9. (26:43) - On directors getting more than one vote ("disproportionate voting rights amongst directors"). Note DGCL 141(d).
10. (29:17) - The Peloton case and how dual-class shares may impact shareholder activism.
11. (31:46) - On sunset provisions for dual-class shares. "The Council of Institutional Investors' 7-year sunset provision is not convincing, 10-12 years is more convincing due to a variety of factors, including investments in R&D and traditional growth horizons."
12. (35:11) - On staggered (or classified) boards: Over the period from 2004 through 2021 proxy seasons, staggered boards have dropped from around 45% to just 3% in S&P100, while they have increased to 52.1% in SV150 companies. "This is a perfect example of why 'best practices' are not equivalent ("there is no one-size-fits-all") in large cap and smaller cap companies." "This reflects the reality that one of the principal reasons for classification, as a takeover defense, is less compelling for some larger companies due to the sheer size of the companies and relative dispersion of their stockholdings."
13. (39:54) - On majority voting. "The rate of implementation of some form of majority voting among S&P 100 companies has risen from 10% to 96% between the 2004 and 2021 proxy seasons. Among the technology and life sciences companies in the SV 150, the rate has risen from 0% as recently as the 2005 proxy season to 56.3% in the 2021 proxy season." "I don't see a lot of data that says that [majority voting] has much of an impact one way or another." "Zombie directors is a nice soundbite, but it's somewhat of an unfair pejorative."
14. (45:09) - On the "stay private vs. go public" debate. "The relative success of companies that have gone public with dual-class share structures has informed the market of what is more or less acceptable." "There are a variety of choices that can be used to go public." "There is a lot of psychic, morale and social value in going public: it's still part of the dream in Silicon Valley to go public." "Liquid currency is a good thing too, particularly for growth via acquisitions." "I do expect this year 2022 to be a lower year for IPOs... the volatility is very high. See VIX index."
15. (51:47) - David's favorite books:
    1. The Discoverers, by Daniel J Boorstin (1983) (and other books by same author)
    2. Wonderful Life, by Stephen Jay Gould (1989) (and other books by same author)
    3. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (1960)
16. (52:25) - Who were your mentors, and what did you learn from them?
    1. Colleagues he's worked with over the years at F&W, including Gordy Davidson, Mark Stevens and Richard Dickson.
    2. Clients such as Tram Phi (GC at Docusign) Mike Dillon (longtime GC at Sun)
17. (54:08) - An unusual habit or an absurd thing that he loves: The English Premier League (fan of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)
18. (56:00) - The living person he most admires? His parents, particularly his mother.

David A. Bell is partner at Fenwick and the co-chair of the firm's corporate governance practice.  

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Trust your gut – always, especially in regard to hiring and retention decisions. Negotiate – and know your worth.

These are a few of the lessons Michelle Burrows, CMO, Splashtop (https://www.splashtop.com/), shared with Daniel Burstein in Episode #3 of the How I Made It In Marketing podcast.

We discussed:

• Make sure you have the right partner for what you want to do: Why a test direct marketing campaign of 500 dimensional mailers went awry
• Trust your gut always…especially regarding hiring and retention decisions: The chief marketing officer shares what she learned from leading teams ranging in size from three to 130, including the hiring decision that she realized was a mistake after only three weeks. “What you’ll tolerate speaks volumes to the rest of the organization,” she said.
• Negotiate, and know your worth: A tactic she overlooked for the first 10 years of her career

Burrows also shared lessons she gained from the people she collaborated with in her career:

• Dick Schulte, Executive Coach, Services, Optiv Security: how to work in a different country, when a move to Europe that was supposed to last six weeks to three months (max) turned into a five-year stay
• Denise Persson, CMO, Snowflake: humility from a leader who went on to help launch one of the most successful IPOs ever
• Mariann McDonagh, CMO, WorkFusion: heart-centered leadership

Articles (and a webinar replay) mentioned in this episode:

B2B Social Media Marketing: DocuSign's targeted LinkedIn InMail strategy creates 3 large pipeline opportunities (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/video/webinar/successful-b2b-linkedin-inmail-strategy) – interview with Meagen Eisenberg

What are the most valuable marketing skills? (with free resources to improve those skills) (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/career-climber/the-5-essential-marketing-skills-you-need-to-be-successful) – includes advice on an interview question to discover how well the candidate understood customers in their previous role

14 Strategies for Hiring and Retaining Marketing Professionals (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/case-study/marketing-hiring) – discusses some ways to attract employees beyond salary, such as sabbaticals, four-day workweeks, extra paid time off, and more

The De-Branding Campaign: When customers make fun of your new product launch (Episode #2) (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/debranding) – Everyone in the organization has an opinion on marketing

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Have you heard about privately-held companies being strong enough to be listed on a public stock exchange? That’s called doing an IPO, an Initial Public Offering, or “going public.” Well, the whole staging of a company like that is fascinating. Join Kevin as he walks through this amazing world that can build real wealth for the ordinary person—and how Jesus did that for us even more so at the Cross! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org.