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Season 5, Episode 7 1:04:36September 23, 2026

Joe Black on Marketing as Code, Public Budgets & Competing with Cat Videos

Five marketers serving thirty engineering teams, every campaign shipped as a pull request, and a public repo where anyone can read the strategy, the budget and Joe Black's own performance feedback — PostHog's marketing lead on why being weird is the safer bet.

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Joe Black on Marketing as Code, Public Budgets & Competing with Cat Videos

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