From Startup to 700 + Employees | The Adam Berke and AdRoll Story (Part 1)
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Adam Berke one of the founders and the former Chief Marketing Officer of Adroll, the world’s largest retargeting platform shares the story of how AdRoll grew from a startup to 700 + employees. Together, he and his partners started Adroll as a way to provide world-class digital advertising options and opportunities to businesses of all size.
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| 0:00.0 | Two men, 13 multimillion dollar businesses, eight kids, one business coach radio show. |
| 0:08.6 | It's the Thrive Time Business Coach Radio show. |
| 0:11.3 | Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show. |
| 0:13.7 | That's it. |
| 0:14.7 | Arms away. We started from the bottom and we're |
| 0:25.0 | We started from the bottom now we're here. |
| 0:35.0 | All right, Thrive Nation, welcome back to another great conversation and today we have Adam Burke the co-founder and global president of the world's |
| 0:38.0 | largest retargeting platform Adroll. |
| 0:41.0 | He's now an angel investor who's focused on helping companies |
| 0:44.5 | with their strategic marketing. Adam, welcome to the Thrive Time show. How are you |
| 0:49.0 | my friend? Hi I'm doing really well. Thanks for having me. Adam we I'm I'm doing really well. |
| 0:53.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:54.0 | Adam, I'm super excited to have you on the show. |
| 0:56.4 | I've read your book, a retargeting playbook. |
| 0:59.1 | I've paid Adroll or spent a lot of money with Adroll over the years, |
| 1:02.4 | and I've always been very |
| 1:03.2 | happy with the purchases and I want to ask you my friend what you guys I guess you |
| 1:08.9 | decided to leave the company about over a year ago and you brought in a very qualified successor by the name |
| 1:15.6 | of Toby to be the president and the CEO of Adroll so I'd like to ask you why did |
| 1:21.0 | you decide to to start ad role and maybe why did you decide it was time to move on to |
| 1:27.1 | Adam Burke 2.0? |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah, I mean the really the decision at the outset for me anyway was really all about all about the people. |
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