Future of Marketing

In this episode of Future of Marketing, hosts Ethan Smith and Mada Seghete sit down with Dave Steer, CMO of Webflow, to explore why trust has become the real competitive advantage for brands navigating an AI-driven market. Drawing on leadership roles at PayPal, eBay, Cloudflare, and Webflow, Dave shares the trust equation modern CMOs need to survive, why most marketing teams fail to prove incremental ROI, and how AI is reshaping the marketer’s role into something closer to a go-to-market engineer. Learn more about how Webflow helps marketing teams create, manage, and optimize personalized web experiences that drive real results.

In this episode of Future of Marketing, hosts Camille Ricketts and Mada Seghete sit down with Lena Waters, CMO of Notion, to explore how AI is reshaping not just marketing workflows, but how teams work together. They unpack how Notion integrates AI natively into its product and go-to-market, why “show, don’t tell” beats traditional enterprise selling, and how to scale brand, PLG, and enterprise motion without losing warmth or clarity.

In this episode of Future of Marketing, hosts Mada Seghete and Ethan Smith sit down with Meagen Eisenberg, CMO of Samsara, to unpack what it actually takes to build an AI-native marketing team. Meagen shares how marketing deployed live AI agents across marketing ops, web, field marketing, growth, PR, creative and more. The conversation goes beyond tools into culture, accountability, and why creativity and human connection still matter more than ever.

Most marketers aren’t being replaced by AI, they’re being replaced by marketers who actually know how to use it. In this launch episode of Future of Marketing, Camille Ricketts, Ethan Smith, and Mada Seghete cut through the AI hype to discuss what’s changing inside modern marketing teams. Drawing from real experience, they explore trends in marketing and AI adoption, where AI can create leverage, their own personal use cases for AI (including how to be funnier), and why human judgment, taste, and storytelling matter more than ever. Going over tradeoffs between authenticity, the risks of messy data, and over-personalization, this episode offers a grounded, practical look at how marketers can move faster without losing what makes their work resonate.

Future of Marketing explores how B2B marketing teams are actually using AI at work.