Rand Fishkin: "Humble and Kind"

Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz and co-founder of SparkToro, has an unrivaled wisdom and candor perfect for podcasting. Over his years at Moz, Rand led marketers to a deeper understanding of SEO,  armed with a well-placed whiteboard and an impressive mustache. Now Rand is bringing us SparkToro, a software product that opens up information on your audience you can’t see anywhere else. Listen in as Rand candidly discusses what it’s really like to go through dark times as a founder, how content marketing has changed in the past ten years, and the type of tech companies he imagines will be founded in the coming years.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Rand’s marriage proposal commercial and appearance on Oprah with wife Geraldine 
• The Whiteboard Friday series on Moz
• James Damore, Google engineer fired for writing manifesto on women's 'neuroticism,' sues company
• Rand’s book: Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
• https://youtu.be/PxZsE5CmmaA WebCertain TV April 11, 2019: Rand Fishkin talks digital marketing trends in 2019
• “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people”.
  - Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Interview with Barry Schwartz on rustybrick: Rand Fishkin Of SparkToro On Early Days At Moz, SEO Community, VC Funds & More (Part One) and Part Two

RAND’S BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

• April Dunford's "Obviously Awesome"
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