Okay, Computer 8/24/22: Less Cloudy the Ad Future Is: A Conversation with Zeta Global’s David Steinberg

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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See show notes and transcript here Dan sits down with David Steinberg, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Zeta Global. They discuss David’s prolific entrepreneurship in the telecom industry early in his career (5:20), his long friendship with, and mentoring from, former Apple CEO John Sculley (16:38), what drove David and John Sculley to co-found Zeta Global together (25:09), the slump in the digital ad industry and how Zeta Global is successfully navigating it (33:25), the impact of inflation & soaring energy prices on businesses (40:42), and why David is so bullish on connected TV advertising (44:00). ---- Email us at [email protected] with any feedback, suggestions, or questions for us to answer on the pod, and follow us @OkayComputerPod. We’re on social: Follow Dan Nathan @RiskReversal on Twitter Follow @GuyAdami on Twitter Follow us on Instagram @RiskReversalMedia Subscribe to our YouTube page

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0:00.0	It's Roland, man. This is David Steinberg, chairman, CEO, co-founder, Zeta Global. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the ticker, Zeta. We're going to get into Zeta. We're going to get into your business. We're going to end in the journey to going public. You've taken companies public before, but not in this sort of environment, I'm assuming, a little bit.
0:22.0	So we're going to talk a little bit about that.
0:23.5	And I would also say, David, before I welcome you officially to OK Computer.
0:28.0	That wasn't the welcome?
0:29.0	That was kind of the welcome.
0:29.8	That was a pretty nice welcome.
0:30.8	You and I met professionally, but I would say our relationship is primarily social, wouldn't you say so?
0:38.7	I don't remotely think of our relationship as professional, so it's got to be all social.
0:43.2	We met some bankers and this and that.
0:45.2	Serious. We were in Vegas. You were putting on a show.
0:48.8	Yeah, no, it was good. But then you and I just quickly morphed our relationship into dining and
0:53.8	cocktailing.
0:54.9	Well, we tend to have very similar things we enjoy, food and wine and fun.
0:59.2	We're cut from a similar ilk, I would say.
1:01.4	You're cut from a bigger ilk than I would these days.
1:04.0	So that's a fat joke, people.
1:05.7	So David is, he is on a keto diet.
1:08.1	No, I'm just kidding.
1:09.3	No, I am.
1:10.0	Are you really?
1:10.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11.2	Yeah, you've kind of talked to me a little bit about that. You do a little bit of the intermittent
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