Lochhead on Marketing

Lochhead on Marketing


075 Movement Marketing w/ David Sacks

September 25, 2020

Today, we go deep on a big powerful idea called Movement Marketing with a legendary entrepreneur, category designer, and company builder turned venture capitalist, David Sacks, from Craft Ventures. 

He's written this blog post recently on this idea and it's a simple, powerful idea that legendary innovators don't just market a company or a product or a service, they create a movement that changes things. Frankly, it's a seminal part of designing and dominating a new category. If you care about changing the future, this episode is pure gold with David. 
Bio:
David Sacks is a highly accomplished entrepreneur and investor in internet technology firms.

He is a general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017. Previously as an entrepreneur, Sacks was the founding COO and product leader of PayPal (acquired by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion) and Founder/CEO of Yammer (acquired by Microsoft in 2012 for $1.2 billion).

In 2016, he led the turnaround of Zenefits as interim CEO.

In 2017, Sacks co-founded blockchain startup Harbor as incubation of Craft Ventures.

His angel investments include Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, Airbnb and Houzz.
Links:
Twitter – @davidsacks

Craft Ventures

Crunch Base – David Sacks