June 2023

Spectrum of Composability in Martech

Composability is already everywhere in martech today, you just may not realize it (which is a good thing)

Lately, I’ve been excitedly talking about “composability” as a major new trend in martech (and business technology in general). But in the absence of defining it more precisely, the term has triggered some confusion and debate about what is or isn’t technically feasible today. So let’s rectify that. In the most broad sense, composability is […]

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Partners Becoming More Effective As A Channel

Breaking through the noise getting harder? Here’s one marketing channel that’s getting more effective

To regular readers, it’s no surprise that I’m bullish on ecosystems. I’ve long advocated that platform ecosystems solve many of the challenges of an ever-changing, highly-diversified martech landscape. It’s also what I focus on at HubSpot, with the company’s ecosystem of technology partners. (So, yes, I’m biased. But that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.) In my

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AI Moat for Martech

The key point of Google’s “we have no moat” memo on generative AI is that ecosystems are the moat

A few weeks ago, an internal memo from Google (or so it was claimed) was leaked that warned, “We have no moat.” Allegedly, it was written by an AI researcher at the company who was explaining how the real competitive threat to Google’s generative AI initiatives wasn’t OpenAI. It was open source communities. If you

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