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Mark Organ on the TechTO stage

Mark Organ

Founder & CEO, Categorynauts

MarketingTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2016

Mark Organ founded Influitive in 2010 to build the advocate-marketing category and is now its chairman. He was the founding CEO of Eloqua, the marketing-automation company Oracle bought for $871 million in 2012. He now runs Categorynauts, a community and coaching practice for founders trying to create categories of their own.

On the TechTO stage ×1

First seen on the TechTO stage in 2016. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Mark

In their words

build Advocates and mobilize them it's all you have to do to be successful in life

TechTO, Jul 2016 · watch at 00:30

the messenger is the message

TechTO, Jul 2016 · watch at 05:48

if you're just going to be here you're probably going to be dead because this is still a small City at the end of the day

TechTO, Jul 2016 · watch at 11:28
A few quotes can’t cover everything Mark said on the TechTO stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Mark

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Quick answers

What is Mark Organ known for?

Building two software categories. He was founding CEO of Eloqua, which effectively defined marketing automation and was acquired by Oracle for $871 million, then founded Influitive in 2010 around customer advocacy.

What was his TechTO talk about?

The evolution of marketing and the weight of word of mouth — his case being that the message comes from the messenger, and that a company can be built by harnessing that.

What is Categorynauts?

Organ's current venture: a global community of category-creating leaders, alongside coaching CEOs on finding and dominating a category.

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