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Laura Desmond: “Let’s think bigger to get back to that golden age.”

27m · Good Company with Michael Kassan · 09 Sep 13:43

Laura Desmond has great expectations for the advertising industry and for its ability to return to an era of glory. It’s for good reason – as a former operator who ran Starcom MediaVest Group for years and eventually moved over to the investment side, she’s seen every perspective of the marketing industry, its opportunities and its challenges. We sit down with the operating partner of Providence Equity and founder and CEO of Eagle Vista Partners to chat on being both an intrapreneur and entrepreneur, why ads should never become scarce and why she’s bullish on the retail media space.

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