This episode explores how Drift, co-founded by David Cancel and Elias Torres, entered the crowded live-chat market and won not by building a better product, but by naming a category. Through the "Forms Are Dead" campaign, ungated content, and a radical bet on authenticity over automation, Drift turned conversational marketing into a movement that reshaped how B2B companies think about buyer friction. The core insight: in a world of commoditized software, the story you tell can behave more like a monopoly than the product itself.
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The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
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