Vol. 04 · Issue 45 · Building in Public
I've spent 20 years running paid media.Now I build the AI for it.
I led a team managing more than $1B a year in paid media for Google. I also learned to code through a lot of formal courses, and I ship AI products to production.
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The hard part of building is not the code. It is the read on the work: what to automate, what to protect, what to deepen, what to change. That is what I build from.
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What to automate. What to protect. Where to go deeper. How your team needs to change.
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