In this episode, Andy & Pedro speak with Andrew Howard, Director - Privacy & Data Policy at Meta, who is also a working colleague to Pedro.  They cover many topics including... 

Andy and Pedro are active members of TechGC,  an invitation-only community of General Counsels of high-growth technology companies and venture funds. TechGC was founded by 2 Venture GC’s 2015 and now has over 2,500 GC members around the world and over 1,300 senior in-house counsel as part of the DeputyGC Program. Members range from early startups to late stage companies like Lyft, Slack, Pinterest, Dropbox, Cloudflare, etc.) or from venture funds (like Founders Fund, Softbank, First Round, Battery, etc.).

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Andy & Pedro speak candidly with Vivek about top-of-mind issues facing the tech General Counsel including...

- What to look for in a mentor

- When to change jobs

- Types of Risk Tolerance and Filtering Risk

- Being a first-time GC

- Keeping Legal integrated with the business

- Reflections on going to law school

- Global data inclusion

- Allowing employees to use the restroom

- And many other topics...

Andy and Pedro are active members of TechGC,  an invitation-only community of General Counsels of high-growth technology companies and venture funds. TechGC was founded by 2 Venture GC’s 2015 and now has over 2,500 GC members around the world and over 1,300 senior in-house counsel as part of the DeputyGC Program. Members range from early startups to late stage companies like Lyft, Slack, Pinterest, Dropbox, Cloudflare, etc.) or from venture funds (like Founders Fund, Softbank, First Round, Battery, etc.).

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Andy and Pedro speak with Andrew, GC, Demandbase about numerous topics affecting operating General Counsels including...

Andy and Pedro are active members of TechGC,  an invitation-only community of General Counsels of high-growth technology companies and venture funds. TechGC was founded by 2 Venture GC’s 2015 and now has over 2,300 GC members around the world and over 1,000 senior in-house counsel as part of the DeputyGC Program. Members range from early startups to late stage companies like Lyft, Slack, Pinterest, Dropbox, Cloudflare, etc.) or from venture funds (like Founders Fund, Softbank, First Round, Battery, etc.).

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Adam Markey talks fast, thinks fast and works on fast things.  Is he the Corvette of AdTech PMs?  Is that a thing?  Should it be?  Adam is also a gamer and owns a “power glove” featured in the Wizard.  Adam was thinking FAST when he was one of the original PMs working on a DSP real-time bidder.  And again when he architected one of the first cross-device products.  And then again when he led the digital TV product team in building one of the first TV driven DSPs.  He also had to think and act fast when the GDPR slammed into AdTech in 2018.

Ruby Zefo is yet another privacy leader who came up through the marketing/ad/brand side of the house.  Ruby is also a former litigator which is another common theme we’ve seen from our esteemed guests.  Those skills took her in-house at Sun Microsystems and then to a series of roles at Intel running Security and AI legal.  She’s now CPO at Uber and one of the things we love is her ability to balance a big job with twitter humor and a sense of not taking life too seriously - critical for living in the grayness/newness of privacy like we do!

Incredible roundtable with three of the leading voices in the adtech privacy space: Julia Shullman (GC/CPO at Triplelift), Noga Rosenthal (GC/CPO at Ampersand) and Farah Zaman (GC at the NAI)  It's a cutting edge discussion about ads, the future of privacy and a lot of laughs too!  

Yes, EW Scripps sponsors the National Spelling Bee, but it is also a massive media company with wide reach.  In his role as CPO Greg leads the strategic privacy efforts for a lot of different constituents including a huge number of TV stations/digital news outlets around the country.  We will dig in with Greg on how to manage a program impacting so many companies, people and data sources/privacy policies.  And we’ll have some laughs too, Greg's got a great sense of humor and infectious laugh - and he takes his big job on with practicality and levity.

Bo Jackson was unstoppable in the NES game Tecmo Bowl, always running out ahead of flailing defenders.  Tom Chavez has run ahead like Bo multiple times, seeing data trends and capitalizing on them by founding and running successful businesses.  Prior to Ketch, his current company, Tom was CEO of Krux which was acquired by Salesforce as a centerpiece of their adtech offering.  Tom is now focusing on data privacy with Ketch and we catch up with him about the challenges of entrepreneurship, starting companies, what’s next and why he ran towards privacy tech