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Stephen Chang shared thisExcited to share our progress on unlocking data for marketers! We designed Data Manager to simplify data integration for marketers of all types, so anyone can use data to unlock the best performance from their campaigns!Stephen Chang shared thisMeasurement can be complex, but the tools & solutions to set up your strategy shouldn’t be. That’s why we’re unifying our data solutions into Data Manager – your one-stop shop to connect and manage all your data sources and signals to make performance-driving decisions. Hear from Stephen Chang, one of the Product Managers who’s building Data Manager, who walks through how this solution can help you make the winning play. Features include: • 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗴 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 serves tags from your own domain for a stronger, more resilient signal to Google’s AI • 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 help you identify and fix issues with your data setup • 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗣𝗜 (coming soon) unifies the way you send data to Google’s advertising platforms through a single API Learn more here → https://goo.gle/4olfuNM
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Stephen Chang liked thisStephen Chang liked thisNew chapter at Google! I’m thrilled to be stepping in as the Global Agency Marketing Lead for Measurement. My focus will be on architecting strategies that empower agencies and third-party partners to navigate the future of measurement and AI. 🚨 We are hiring! I’m looking for a Marketing Manager and a Marketing Specialist to help scale this global mission. Explore the roles here: - Manager: https://lnkd.in/g7nd82JS - Specialist: https://lnkd.in/gDCTyY8q
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Stephen Chang liked thisStephen Chang liked thisYesterday marked 20 years since I started Celtra. On March 8, 2006, I was in a dorm room at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business late in the evening when I registered Celtra Inc. on mycorporation.com. I did it as a commitment to myself that Celtra would not remain just a school project, but become a real company. I had no idea I was starting a journey that would shape the next two decades of my life and give me so much in return. Looking back, a few lessons stand out. Start committed as if the company were your child. Give it your best and help it grow into something honest, useful, and purposeful. Expect to be a good parent for decades, not just a few years. I did not fully think this way when I started, but today I believe the most interesting and enduring companies are built by people who dedicate multiple decades to their pursuits. Get help from many people. Find the best and most capable people you can. Most people are willing to help, and some are willing to join your journey. You need both. I was truly lucky to begin building Celtra with Maja Mikek, Matevz Klanjsek, and Jaka Jančar. Alongside them were early investors Uros Marter, Martin Mikek, Tatjana Zabasu Mikuž, and Jure Mikuž, advisors Ivan Mitrovic, Walt Doyle, and Sarah Fay, and later our VC partners Tim Wright and Mark H.. Over the years, many more people played essential roles in what Celtra has become. I am grateful to every one of them. Your customers ultimately define who you are. Everything starts and ends with them. They guide you toward value creation, shape your ideas, and bring you to those “aha” moments. We were fortunate to have early believers like New Line Cinema, 20th Century Studios, Jumptap, Kargo, and NBCU become foundational partners. Over time, we’ve worked with hundreds of companies, including iconic brands like Unilever, adidas, Spotify, Apple, Google, JPMorgan, Toyota, and Samsung. Keep going until you believe your best work is still ahead. Our breakthrough came in 2011, after years of belief, persistence, and learning how to serve our market. We believed creative technology could transform advertising. As mobile rose, we built a platform to create, deliver, and measure rich media advertising at scale. Today creative is becoming central again. Not only because of GenAI, but because the industry is recognizing the limits of media targeting alone. Future growth will come from stronger coordination between media and creative and from AI-augmented creativity. AI can power scale, but humans bring emotion, storytelling, and originality. That is exactly what we are building at Celtra today: modular creative design combined with GenAI production, agents that simplify complex tasks, and workflows that extend from creative production into campaign activation. In short, we are turning creative into a performance system for advertisers and their partners. I’m proud of our first 20 years, and confident that Celtra’s best work is still ahead.
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Stephen Chang liked thisStephen Chang liked thisProud to be part of EMi, which opened its doors in July 2025. We achieved our first Michelin star just 3.5 months later, setting a record in Spain. Up to the next!EMI, la apuesta que hace temblar Madrid. - El mundo visto por Esteban CapdevilaEMI, la apuesta que hace temblar Madrid. - El mundo visto por Esteban Capdevila
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Stephen Chang liked thisStephen Chang liked thisYour Google Ads 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴…but it isn’t your creative 📉 …𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽. Data that lives in silos can't fuel signals for AI performance. It’s time to upgrade your Data Strength with 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿. Learn from our Data Manager PM Faaiz Ahmad on how you can drive growth. 👇 🛠️ 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀: Connect your website, database, and CRM in one place. ⚡ 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀: Run diagnostics to help you ensure your setup is strong. 🚀 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗜: Paylocity drove 62% more conversion value lift with Data Manager. Fuel your AI-powered campaigns to drive the best ROI.
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Stephen Chang liked thisStephen Chang liked thisWhat a year! 2025 has moved at a wild pace, and I’m still catching my breath reflecting on everything I’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of. 🚀 There was no better way to close out the year than celebrating at the Sanabil Accelerator by 500 Global Demo Day in Riyadh 🇸🇦 last week. The last 3+ months have been an absolute privilege; working with a new generation of MENA's most exciting founders and witnessing their incredible growth. 🌟 So If you haven't yet, please meet this powerhouse class of startups transforming the MENA region and beyond: 🎓 EduFi – Buy now, pay later for education. Founded by Aleena Nadeem 🔒 RASPIRE – A no-code platform helping businesses secure mobile apps against cyber threats. Funded by Karim Selim and Hassan Mostafa 💳 Local – A QR payments platform helping on-site businesses get paid in just 10 seconds. Funded by Saad Ahmed, Ali Farooq and @Kareem Mokhtar 👗 Maison Safqa – Turns overstock into revenue by making luxury brands accessible via online flash events. Funded by Léa Mehaweg Testa, Estelle Nasr and Georgia Mehaweg Testa 🌐 Ship+Tag – Unlocks global sales for local e-commerce brands by managing international logistics and payments. Funded by Osamah Abdo, Ahmed Aloneizi and @Hamza Khoshhhal 🤖 SeenAI – A platform that boosts brand visibility in AI search results, turning prompts into profits. Funded by Abdalla Odat 📊 Scenario X – An AI and quantum platform empowering financial institutions to make faster risk decisions. Funded by Achille Yomi, FRM, CQF, Lionel Xavier and Cédric K. 🛡️ Governata – Enables organizations to adopt Gen-AI faster by governing and enhancing data quality. Funded by Djamel Mohand, Jehad Senan and Khalid Almudayfir ✨ WoWAI – Saves e-comm merchants hundreds of hours by managing promotions and orders through AI chat. Funded by Sherif Makhlouf and Ed Shadi Congratulations on an epic Demo Day performance and a great year 2025! Now, time for a well-deserved holiday break. See you in 2026! 🌴☕ #MENA #Startups #DemoDay #500Global #SanabilAccelerator #Entrepreneurship
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Stephen Chang liked thisStephen Chang liked thisUpdate: We’ve cleared the waitlist for millions of Gemini for Home early access users! 🚀 Starting today, any US user can opt-in via the Google Home app settings, with most approved within 24 hours. As we continue to shape this early access experience, your feedback remains critical—keep it coming! 🏠✨ https://lnkd.in/gSgJw8xe Mark 🔬Spencer Nitish Joanna Chris Vincent Rachel Hyduke Majd
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Anoj Sundar
📌 Health, experimentation, and shipping faster: here's what I'm focusing on in 2026 📌 As we enter 2026, I want to reflect on last year and express gratitude to everyone who made it meaningful. To my family, my colleagues at Amazon, and the startup founders and technopreneurs I connected with, for their support, inspiring conversations and shared learning. Health is my #1 priority this year. Without it, I can't show up fully for my two young daughters, my team, or our customers. I'm committed to finding time for healthy eating and exercise, even while balancing the demands of parenting and career. It's not easy, but it's non-negotiable. With that foundation, here's where I'm focusing my energy professionally in 2026. 1️⃣ First, fostering a culture of strategic experimentation. AI technology is still evolving, and we don't yet know its full potential or gaps. I'm taking a pragmatic approach: testing it on a handful of well-defined customer problems with clear goals in mind. I want to encourage my teams to experiment, but with constraints and intention. If something doesn't work, we pivot quickly without falling into the sunk cost fallacy. This is where Amazon's leadership principles of Learn and Be Curious, Bias for Action and Are Right a Lot come together. We think carefully, move decisively, and treat these as two-way door decisions. Learning by doing is how we'll discover what truly works. 2️⃣ Second, once those experiments prove valuable, shipping production-grade code faster. My biggest frustration in 2025 was having PRFAQs and BRDs ready but waiting on dev resources to bring them to life. We will continue to leverage AI coding assistants combined with robust software development practices to solve this bottleneck. I've been reading a few great resources - "How Big Things Get Done", "Diving into system design on AWS", and working through "The DevOps Handbook" to ensure we're building on solid fundamentals, not just moving fast for the sake of speed. 2026 will be the year AI experiments face real ROI scrutiny, which means we need to work backwards from goals and outcomes, not from the technology itself. Think slow during experimentation, move fast when shipping. 3️⃣ Third, helping my team unlock their potential. In an environment where the pressure to deliver is constant, I want to create space for people to be builders, tinkerers, and experimenters. Celebrate failures and learnings along with success. This ties back to that measured Bias for Action approach: taking smart risks on reversible decisions, learning what works, and iterating. When we empower people to experiment and learn by doing, that's when real innovation, beyond what we can imagine today, truly happens.
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Aatish Nayak
It was a pleasure sitting down with Sachi from Sierra and Leigh Marie & Josh Coyne from Kleiner Perkins to discuss what its like shipping AI at enterprise scale. We talk about the new product principles for AI-native products incl: - Why context complete workspaces are more important than raw AI capability - The impossibility of planning roadmaps in this market - Building user trust through UX - When you need (and don't need) Forward Deployed Engineers - Re-finding PMF every few months - And why vibes are sometimes all you need. Thanks for having me on Builders Ep 2, and hope this is a useful and practical guide for anyone building in AI. Full episode link here: https://lnkd.in/ejRvsUSs P.S. Recommend all podcasts provide Chick-Fil-A to their guests :)
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