20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader

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Alex Schultz is the Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Analytics at Meta, where he has spent nearly two decades shaping the company's growth and marketing strategy. He has been instrumental in scaling Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to billions of users worldwide. Alex is is also the author of Click Here: The New Rules of Marketing, the definitive guide to modern growth — available now on Amazon.

AGENDA:

00:00 – Is All Marketing Actually Performance Marketing?

04:00 – When Did Facebook Have the Wrong North Star? What Did They Learn?

16:00 – Will AI Create Companies Run by Just ONE Person?

27:00 – Is AI About to Hit the Biggest Plateau Since Self-Driving Cars?

30:00 – Is China Secretly Winning the Global AI Arms Race?

38:00 – Does AI Kill Content or Supercharge It?

44:00 – Why Brand Marketing Is Harder (and More Important) Than You Think

47:00 – Will Glasses Replace Phones Forever?

51:00 – What Would Alex Do If He Were Sundar at Google Today?

59:00 – What is the Greatest Strength and the Greatest Weakness of Zuck?