Taking Inventory

The Taking Inventory Podcast was originally about the digital economy and ads, but after seeing my community destroyed by the Palisades Fire, Daniel Druger, and I have decided to shift the focus of the pod to learning about how LA can become a functioning city vs. the mess it is today.

Episodes

Rebuilding LA #2: Housing & Zoning with Cover's Alexis Rivas

February 13, 2025 • 17 mins

Alexis Rivas, co-founder and CEO of Cover, talks rebuilding LA after the recent wildfires. Explore how Cover's innovative use of technology is transforming home construction, and how this approach could impact the recovery efforts - making it faster, efficient, and affordable. Tune in to learn how Alexis sees the future of residential building and zoning - and how Cover is playing a pivotal role in the city's recovery.

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Rebuilding LA: EP1 Fire Insurance

February 5, 2025 • 42 mins

The Taking Inventory podcast was originally about the digital economy and advertising, but after our co-host's house burned down—thanks to LA’s chaos—we’ve shifted our focus to fixing what could be the best city in the world. In our first episode about rebuilding LA, we have Jennifer Fitzgerald, the co-founder and former CEO of Policy Genius. Jennifer is working full-time on recovery and rebuilding efforts after losing her home an...

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MAJOR UPDATE from James & Daniel + Conor McKenna, Partner at LUMA, on the state of M&A markets and what to watch for heading into 2025

September 4, 2024 • 36 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— During the intro James and Daniel share a big update about Market AI and the reason for the short break between episodes. After the intro, Conor McKenna, Partner at LUMA Partners, rejoins the podcast to share what he's seeing in the M&A markets across sectors within adtech and martech, and what...

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Snap Mafia: David Shim, founder of Read AI, on building a better future of work with AI and the story of his $175M acquisition by Snap

August 5, 2024 • 42 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Read a transcript of the full episode from Read AI: https://app.read.ai/analytics/meetings/01J486QZFQ1JVSEY6BR92K77RP David Shim is the founder and CEO of Read AI, the leader in gen AI meeting summaries. David and his co-founders started Read AI with a mission of building the future of work, where e...

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The rise of self-service and what it means for advertisers, publishers, and markets with Jeffrey Mayer, Managing Director, US at DanAds

July 29, 2024 • 30 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Jeffrey Mayer is the Managing Director, US, and Head of Product at DanAds, which is an industry leading provider of self-serve technology. They power fully automated, and white-labeled self-serve infrastructure that enables global media owners like Roku, Spotify, Paramount, Zillow, WSJ, and more to ...

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Gokul Rajaram on one of the biggest mistakes startups and founders make, the role of board members, and leadership qualities from some of the greats

July 22, 2024 • 45 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Gokul Rajaram has been an integral part of the digital ad ecosystem for more than 20 years. He was a product leader on Google’s AdSense, product director of ads at Facebook, and is on the boards of The Trade Desk, Pinterest, and Coinbase among others. Gokul now invests in early-stage technology st...

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What any company can do to can improve ad measurement today, and the top measurement trends to know, with Andrew Covato

July 15, 2024 • 37 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Andrew Covato, Founder and CEO of Growth by Science and former measurement lead at Netflix, Meta, Snap, and Google, returns to the podcast to provide an update on the measurement trends that advertisers need know and what big and small companies can do to improve their measurement today. ——— Connec...

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Brendan McCarthy, CMO of Criteo, on marketing during periods of transformation and how to maintain customer trust

July 8, 2024 • 37 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Brendan McCarthy is Chief Marketing Officer at Criteo. He joined Criteo in late 2020, bringing nearly 20 years of Fortune 500 strategic marketing and communications experience to the company. Under his leadership, Brendan spearheaded key transformational initiatives at Criteo, including a brand refr...

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What startups get wrong about lawyers and how to use legal for growth, with Adam Greenberg, former GC / head of legal at Warby Parker, Ro, and Blank Street

July 1, 2024 • 40 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Adam Greenberg is a former attorney from Skadden Arps who left big law to join Warby Parker as their second legal hire, later joined health platform Ro as their General Counsel, and most recently joining Tiger-backed Blank Street as General Counsel. He’s helped startups scale legal teams from a team...

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Gabriel Ornelas, host and creator of “On The Pass” podcast, talks the rise of chef influencers and the intersection of media, food, and hospitality,

June 24, 2024 • 42 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— In this episode of Taking Inventory we welcome Gabriel Ornelas, a renowned strategist and producer in the hospitality, food and beverage, entertainment, and lifestyle industries. Gabriel works with brands to develop and produce impactful branded experiences through content, media, and strategic part...

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Nik Milanović, founder of “This Week in Fintech” and The Fintech Fund, on current trends and the future of Fintech

June 17, 2024 • 38 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Nik Milanović is one of the leading figures in fintech as the founder of “This Week in Fintech” a global newsletter with over 100K subscribers and the General Partner at The Fintech Fund where he invests in early-stage companies. Before founding his newsletter and fund, Nik was an exec at Google Pa...

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Turner Novak, founder of Banana Capital, talks VC investing and the power of meme accounts

June 10, 2024 • 45 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Turner Novak is a former banker turned Twitter / meme influencer with 170K followers, and has built that account into an empire with newsletter, podcast, and early stage investment fund Banana Capital. Through the fund Turner has made 50+ investments, including companies like BrowseAI, BinStar and C...

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Snap’s President of Americas, Patrick Harris, from Meta to Snap and the changes driving its breakout

June 3, 2024 • 45 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Patrick Harris is the President of Americas at Snap where he’s brought his 10+ years of experience from Meta and 5+ years from Microsoft. Hear what it was like building the organization at Meta and what he’s bringing to Snap to change the culture and advertiser experience. Patrick talks about the mi...

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Snap Mafia: Rajan Vaish, founder of Easel, on building at the intersection of social and Gen AI and what he learned doing research at Stanford and Snap

May 30, 2024 • 39 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Rajan Vaish is the founder and CEO of Easel, an AI-powered app that lets you create scenes with your AI avatar to express yourself with friends in fun and imaginative ways, all directly from iMessage. Prior to founding Easel, Rajan was a senior research scientists in Snap Research's HCI Group workin...

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Mike Dupree, CRO of Teads, gives us an insider's look at the Twitter to X transition and why he made the move from walled garden to open web

May 27, 2024 • 37 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Mike Dupree is the Chief Revenue Officer at Teads where he oversees the commercial organization, including field sales, agency partnerships and strategic sales initiatives. Mike joined Teads after spending nearly 10 years at Twitter / X where he was leading the brand and performance advertising busi...

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The State of the Podcast Industry with with Bryan Barletta, founder of Sounds Profitable

May 20, 2024 • 47 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Bryan Barletta is the founder of Sounds Profitable, a trade association for the podcast industry. As a seasoned professional with over 16 years in the advertising and technology space, Barletta played a key role in the world’s first shakeable ad in 2009 and held leadership positions at prominent pod...

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Why the app economy is booming w/ the President of AppsFlyer, Brian Quinn

May 13, 2024 • 37 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Brian Quinn is the President and GM of North America at AppsFlyer. Brian has over 15 years of experience in sales leadership and business development—scaling revenue, building high performing growth teams, & executing go-to-market strategies in a variety of internet software businesses across th...

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Amazon’s $50B ads business still hasn’t scratched the surface, and why non-endemic and social partnerships are the future, with Amazon expert Daniel Tejada

May 6, 2024 • 41 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Daniel Tejada is Co-founder and Chief Learning Office at Straight Up Growth, the Amazon agency that has nearly $750M in Amazon sales. Daniel was one of the first people to start advertising on Amazon and has since become a global leader in Amazon ads and sales strategy. Daniel helps make sense of Am...

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Snap Mafia Edition: Garrett Rothstein, founder of Queue, the modern day TV guide, on partnering with Zillow’s founder and getting on Chamath's radar

April 30, 2024 • 43 mins

This episode is brought to you by Market. Use AI to chat directly with your marketing and sales channels to get the answers you need to grow your business. Sign-up for Market at https://www.withmarket.ai/. ——— Garrett Rothstein is the founder and CEO of Queue, an app that helps user keep track of all the content across streaming services and queue movies and shows to watch. Hear Garrett’s story going from Snap to Quibi, and then h...

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Selling Undertone, setting up a family office, and reinventing retail ads with M3’s Michael Cassidy

April 29, 2024 • 43 mins

If you like Taking Inventory, do us a favor and give us a 5-star rating or review. It’s the best way to help support the podcast. ——— Michael Cassidy is an entrepreneur who has started and exited multiple companies, including founding and serving as Undertone CEO for 14 years (acquired by Perion). Hear his journey from the early 2000’s of tech (the wild west!), to exiting, then creating a family office (August Spark) to make direc...

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Episodes

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MAJOR UPDATE from James & Daniel + Conor McKenna, Partner at LUMA, on the state of M&A markets and what to watch for heading into 2025

Snap Mafia: David Shim, founder of Read AI, on building a better future of work with AI and the story of his $175M acquisition by Snap

The rise of self-service and what it means for advertisers, publishers, and markets with Jeffrey Mayer, Managing Director, US at DanAds

Gokul Rajaram on one of the biggest mistakes startups and founders make, the role of board members, and leadership qualities from some of the greats

What any company can do to can improve ad measurement today, and the top measurement trends to know, with Andrew Covato

Brendan McCarthy, CMO of Criteo, on marketing during periods of transformation and how to maintain customer trust

What startups get wrong about lawyers and how to use legal for growth, with Adam Greenberg, former GC / head of legal at Warby Parker, Ro, and Blank Street

Gabriel Ornelas, host and creator of “On The Pass” podcast, talks the rise of chef influencers and the intersection of media, food, and hospitality,

Nik Milanović, founder of “This Week in Fintech” and The Fintech Fund, on current trends and the future of Fintech

Turner Novak, founder of Banana Capital, talks VC investing and the power of meme accounts

Snap’s President of Americas, Patrick Harris, from Meta to Snap and the changes driving its breakout

Snap Mafia: Rajan Vaish, founder of Easel, on building at the intersection of social and Gen AI and what he learned doing research at Stanford and Snap

Mike Dupree, CRO of Teads, gives us an insider's look at the Twitter to X transition and why he made the move from walled garden to open web

The State of the Podcast Industry with with Bryan Barletta, founder of Sounds Profitable

Why the app economy is booming w/ the President of AppsFlyer, Brian Quinn

Amazon’s $50B ads business still hasn’t scratched the surface, and why non-endemic and social partnerships are the future, with Amazon expert Daniel Tejada

Snap Mafia Edition: Garrett Rothstein, founder of Queue, the modern day TV guide, on partnering with Zillow’s founder and getting on Chamath's radar

Selling Undertone, setting up a family office, and reinventing retail ads with M3’s Michael Cassidy

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