The Marketing Millennials

Building a Team of AI Marketing Agents with Ryan Gavin, CMO at Slack

The Marketing Millennials

Show Notes

What happens when customers stop visiting your website and start buying straight from an AI chat?Ryan Gavin, CMO at Slack (part of Salesforce), joins Daniel to break down how AI agents are rewriting the Marketing playbook, from lead routing to content QA to the agent first internet.Plus: how 1 engineering agent saved a quarter of a million hours, how Ryan's team grades every piece of content with AI before it ever hits his inbox, and how every Marketer can shift gears from manual "doer" to strategic orchestrator.If you're a Marketer who wants to future proof your team for an AI and agent first world, this episode is for YOU.Hit follow and leave us a rating if you're loving the pod. It helps more Marketers find us.Follow Ryan: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-gavin-seattle/

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