The Future of AI driven sales with Stephen Messer

Digital Value Creation

My guest this week is Stephen Messer, co-founder and Vice Chairman of Collective[I], an AI-driven B2B sales network platform. Stephen was also instrumental in creating the affiliate marketing category with Linkshare in 1996. He comes from an entrepreneurial family and spent his life trying to reimagine and disrupt the way business historically operated and to find ways to create outsize value. Stephen is also an early-stage venture investor.
He shares his insights on how COVID changed the speed of digital transformation in sales and also how companies stopped tolerating inaccurate sales forecasts in the crisis and what that may mean for the future of sales and marketing.
He also talks about why collaborative and network-based business models consistently outperform isolated and rigid processes.
He provides insight into why he believes that beyond AI, quantum computing may be the most revolutionary part of the technology developments.
We also discuss how executives have a growth mindset outperform those with an efficiency mindset, especially when it comes to digital innovation.
We cover topics from society, digital transformation to the future of technology.