Transcript
Mark Guldeman (0:00)
The market is totally irrational. There are lots of valuable placements that are underpriced. But I do think there's a lot of opportunity in CTV and on the web and in all mediums to use attention data to more efficiently buy attentive reach.
Wayne O. Jasper (0:16)
Marketing Architects hello and welcome to the Marketing Architects, a research first podcast dedicated to answering your toughest marketing questions. I'm Wayne O. Jasper on the marketing team here at Marketing Architects and I'm joined by my co hosts Angela Voss, the CEO of Marketing Architects and Rob DeMars, the chief product architect of misfits and machines. Hi guys. And we're joined by a special guest, Mark Guldeman. Mark is the co founder and CEO of Adelaide, a company redefining how we measure media quality through attention metrics. Adelaide's proprietary metric AU is the first omnichannel media quality score, proven to predict business outcomes, helping brands understand not just if their ads were seen, but if they truly captured attention. Before founding Adelaide, Mark launched and led Parsec Media, the world's first cost per second platform for mobile advertising, which was later acquired by Cargo. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon with a background in social decision sciences, Mark has spent his career at the intersection of technology, data and human behavior, challenging the industry to move beyond exposure based metrics towards more meaningful measures of effectiveness. So Mark, thank you for joining the pod.
Mark Guldeman (1:22)
Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Angela Voss (1:24)
This is going to be super fun. But before we get into all this smart marketing talk, do I have this right? Because I feel like I would have had a lot of fun hanging out with you in college because you were for pure sport hacking wireless networks, is that correct? And that you ultimately then developed the world's first wireless virus filter. Is it, Is this, Are all these rumors true?
Mark Guldeman (1:51)
Deep in my old bio, I worked at a company in high school called pinx, which was public access Unix. It was like the well of the east coast. And so I got really interested in like computer networks and stuff. And this was in the early 90s. And so when I was looking at schools to go to Carnegie Mellon had the biggest wireless network at that time. So I ended up going there and messing around with their wireless network. My first job out of school was a sales engineer for a wireless security company that's basically running VPNs because WEP was so insecure. And so I would go around hacking WI FI networks to prove that they needed to use our product. And then there was, I think it was probably 2002 and there was a virus called Welchi and Nachi, I think this is a long time ago and I'm really digging around in the roots of my brain here. But there was, it was Welch and Naci and we were able to figure out based on like the header of a TCP IP packet if a computer was infected and then put that computer in a separate vlan it was a virus that would infect other computers over the network. And so as kids were going back to school and I think we did this with a UC school with a big campus, as kids were coming back to school, they were really worried that these laptops were going to infect all of the other laptops on the network. And so yeah, that's the, that's that story. We built a wireless virus filter using our technology.
