Yes, and Marketing

About Yes, and Marketing

Practical Pivots is the go-to source for startup leaders and investors asking, “What do we do next?”. Each episode, we talk with a wide array of experts to guide companies to disrupt the undisruptable, turn setbacks into scale-ups, and transform plateaus into pivots.

Publisher

Steve Pockross

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jun 2020

Latest episode

12 May 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 148 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 May 2026

   The Takeover CEO Playbook: How John Allen Turns Stagnant Startups Into Exits

   Host Steve Pockross interviews serial scale-up CEO John Allen on his playbook for transforming stagnant startups into successful exits.

2. 

   11 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Practical Pivots Go To Market 2026 Guiding Lights

   Host Steve Pockross interviews industry experts, sharing 12 go-to-market lessons for founders navigating a scarce attention economy.

3. 

   10 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Rural Rockets, Farmer Founders & Marc Nager’s VC Remix

   Host Steve Pockross interviews Marc Nager, co-founder of Howdy, about building rural tech startups and unconventional venture capital strategies.

Inside a recent episode

Practical Pivots Go To Market 2026 Guiding Lights

Published 11 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I mean, the advice I think for teenagers now is like, figure out how you can not be obsolete. I still think, as good as AI is, I think trying to figure out why people do what they do. I think that's a hard problem. At a time like we're in now, which is, AI makes everyone sound the same. It doesn't even matter what industry you're in. The playing field just got completely level. How do you differentiate? Well, it's people. It's being human. Mark's point that humans have to find the key sustaining areas where we add the most value combines with Rachel's emphasis that AI is drowning us in a sea of sameness. […]

Who has been a guest on Yes, and Marketing

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• John Allen
• Marc Nager
• Rachel Shayne
• Hunter Albright
• Adam Burrows

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

71 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

50

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85