120 AI Use Cases Later: How Meagen Eisenberg Scaled Samsara’s Marketing with AI
In this episode of AI’ve Got Questions, Stacey sits down with Megan Eisenberg, CMO of Samsara, to unpack how she’s turned AI from a vague mandate into real momentum across a 230-person marketing organization. Megan shares how she set clear expectations for AI usage, gave her team permission to experiment, and created the conditions for real innovation, without waiting for a perfect playbook. From internal hackathons and AI “power hours” to building in-house tools that track how Samsara shows ...
15 Des 202522min
Inside Datadog: How Sara Varni Scales AI Across a Global Team
In this episode, Datadog CMO Sara Varni breaks down what AI adoption really looks like inside a large, scaled marketing organization. Sara shares how her team is experimenting with AI while also selling AI-driven products, and why Datadog now expects every headcount or budget request to be evaluated through an “AI productivity” lens. She talks through the real use cases that are working, and the ones that are still too early. Sara also walks through Datadog’s bottoms-up AI Council, their cros...
9 Des 202519min
Becoming AI-Native: Inside Atlan’s Growth Engine with Abhishek GP
Today I’m joined by someone very special to me, Abhishek GP. We worked together at Freshworks and have stayed close ever since. I’ve had the chance to mentor him over the years, and it has been incredible to watch him grow into a leader who is respected, thoughtful, and already driving major impact. Now he is running growth at Atlan, one of the fastest rising and most AI native companies out there. This episode is a behind the scenes look at what it actually feels like to operate inside a com...
19 Nov 202519min
Signals, AEO, and the New Buyer Journey with Sydney Sloan, CMO of G2
In this episode of AI’ve Got Questions, I sit down with Sydney Sloan, CMO of G2 and one of the most thoughtful and dynamic marketing leaders I know. Sydney has spent her career shaping categories, scaling powerhouse SaaS companies, and building marketing teams that know how to spot the signal through the noise. Now she’s at the center of one of the biggest shifts we’ve seen in years: the rise of AI-driven buyer behavior, agentic workflows, and AEO. We get into all of it, from how CMOs should ...
13 Nov 202521min
From Hackathons to an AI Content Engine: Sylvia LePoidevin on Iru’s Marketing Transformation
This week on AI’ve Got Questions, Stacey sits down with Sylvia LePoidevin, CMO of Iru (formerly Kandji), to talk about how she’s turning AI from a buzzword into a company-wide movement. Sylvia shares how she built an “AI-first” marketing team, starting with a scrappy hackathon that produced a working content system in just four hours, to a company-wide “Marketing Shark Tank” where bold, AI-powered ideas compete for cash prizes. They dig into: How to make AI adoption fun instead of intimidatin...
4 Nov 202522min
Inside Hex: How CMO Ashley Stepien Is Rebuilding Marketing with AI
In this episode of AI’ve Got Questions, Stacey sits down with Ashley Stepien, CMO of Hex, to talk about how AI is transforming modern marketing. Ashley shares how her team uses tools like ChatGPT and Claude to automate tedious tasks, test messaging at scale, and even rethink the structure of a marketing org. They dive into the balance between build vs. buy in the age of AI, what it means to create “AI-native” marketers, and why brand creativity is making a big comeback. If you’re a marketing ...
28 Okt 202527min
How Liz Carter and Reputation Are Redefining Brand Intelligence
Stacey sits down with longtime friend and colleague Liz Carter, CMO of Reputation, to explore the new playbook for brand and reputation management in the GenAI era. Liz shares why Reputation rebuilt its platform around a unified intelligence hub, how buyers’ generative searches are changing discovery, and why reputation data can’t live in marketing silos anymore. With examples from healthcare, auto, and property management—and a peek at “Voice of Brand,” which aligns review responses to brand...
11 Sep 202519min
Reimagining the CDP with AI: Tejas Manohar on Hightouch’s Composable Approach
In this episode, Stacey sits down with Tejas Manohar, co-founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, to talk about the evolution of customer data platforms (CDPs) and how Hightouch is changing the game. Tejas shares his journey from early engineer at Segment to building a “composable CDP” that sits directly on top of the data warehouse. They dive into real-world examples from companies like Grammarly, PetSmart, and DoorDash, and explore how AI is reshaping marketing by turning raw data into smarter, aut...
20 Aug 202520min
