It was the highlight of my trip -- winning the Pioneers Innovation startup pitch competition at POSSIBLE... And that's saying a lot because the conference was impressive and we had dozens of meetings with leaders in the industry. The judges' feedback was interesting -- they liked our privacy approach, they liked that we’re trying to simplify parts of the post-cookie identity resolution problem by bringing dozens of extended IDs together in *one* place (without forcing clients to use our own ID... I discovered that companies we meet with are constantly surprised that we're not pushing our own ID!). My other favorite piece of feedback from one of the judges: "Super well done, amazing company.” Considering the source of the feedback, well that just made my day. My week. Maybe my year! Yes, I think that's likely. Thank you to Infillion and Aperiam for sponsoring the competition!! HUGE thank you to the judges, who as you can see, are rather impressive individuals: Shahrzad Rafati (Chairperson and CEO RHEI) Megan Pagliuca (Chief Activation Officer at Omnicom Media Group) Kim Perrell (CEO & Founder 100.co) Rob Emrich (founder/Exec Chairman at Infillion) Well you can tell from the look on my face that this was a pretty big deal for us. I enjoyed bringing my colleagues Wev Castro and Yoshuan Feeney-Pastrana on stage for the final pitch too. I don't operate the company by myself, we have a team of outstanding individuals that collaborate effectively often from different continents. It's not easy to serve clients with identity insights while strictly safeguarding users' personal information on two continents (soon to be more) with remote teams... standing up on the Innovation stage with Yosh and Wev celebrated these efforts for me. So that's another reason for the big smile on my face. A special thank you to the Roqad intrepid engineers and data scientists led by Bartek Bogacki and Lukasz Piepiora in #Poland; they build the algorithms and infrastructure that makes our machine run. Onward! You'll probably hear more from me on this topic. It was a big week, a big event during an already exciting year. 😎 -- the future is bright, so be sure to wear some 🕶
Edvin Vosylius
2mo
Congratulations Carsten Frien
Daniel Hoepfner
2mo
This is a great, well deserved
Vincent Pelillo
2mo
Bravos Carsten, you always said ROI first:)
Debra Fleenor
2mo
Congrats!
Eva Nahari
2mo
Congrat’s Carsten and team!!
Gytenis Galkis
2mo
Way to go!
Ralf Hirt
2mo
Bravo Carsten Frien and team!
Richard Kidd
2mo
Congratulations to Carsten Frien and the team Roqad ! Great achievement!
Anil Kutty
2mo
Congratulations to the team! 💪
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2moNice work here my friend Carsten Frien congrats to you and the team. Keep building.