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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone, my guest today is Mark Grether.

He's the CEO of Seismic, and he focuses on guiding the company and accelerating

the growth of the business. Before Seismic, Mark was co-founder and global CEO of Xaxis. Under his

leadership, the company grew into the world's largest programmatic media company with over

$1 billion in revenue in five years. Mark, are you ready to take us to the top?

Thank you. Good. Thanks for being here.

First off, did I get the last company, the pronunciation correct, that you were CEO of?

Yes, of course. I'm a CEO of seismic. I joined the company actually a year ago on the day-to-day.

And as you can imagine, it was an exciting time that we went through the last year. We acquired rocket fuel.

We combined both businesses, seismic and rocket fuel under the seismic brand.

And now we are the largest independent bi-fi platform for advertisers and agencies.

With about 1,600 employees globally.

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