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Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Ep. 58 – How To Run An Influencer Marketing Company with Adrienne Lahens

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Management

4.9225 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Working with leaders who also want to be influencers is challenging, especially in allowing yourself and those under you to grow. Our guest today is Adrienne Lahens, the COO of Influential and an Operations Executive who has helped grow nascent startups into industry-disrupting unicorns. With expertise in media and technology and a passion for innovation, Adrienne has cultivated […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to Second in Command, brought to you by COO Alliance, where top-level

0:07.3

COOs share their insights, tactics, and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief. And now, here and now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

0:17.0

Adrian Lathons is an operations executive who's helped grow nascent startups into

0:26.9

industry disrupting unicorns. With expertise in media and technology and a

0:31.6

passion for innovation, Adrian has cultivated dynamic

0:34.7

teams and established iterative structure to support exponential growth.

0:39.7

She's overseeing the development and execution of hundreds of influencer marketing and branded content campaigns for Fortune 500 companies,

0:47.0

grossing billions of views, provable ROI and actionable business results.

0:52.0

Currently Adrian is the

0:53.8

CEO at influential and AI marketing ecosystem that delivers market

0:58.8

intelligence, influencer technology, and social activations. Adrian sets a strategy for managed service offering,

1:05.0

leads GTM strategy for the SAS business,

1:08.0

and runs all operations for the company.

1:11.0

Prior to influential,

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Adrian held several leadership roles in her four years at

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BuzzFeed and scaled the operation to support well over $150 million in revenue. She led initiatives

1:20.9

to foster international expansion into Europe, South Central America, and Asia,

1:26.0

and brought new products such as branded video, quizzes, and editorial sponsorships to the market.

1:31.3

So Adrian, welcome to the Second and Command

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podcast. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, you've got and first

1:37.8

off a very interesting background in bio but also just a kind of a cool niche that

1:41.8

you're in as a company.

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