Laura Hutfless, FlyteVu Co-Founder

01/05/24 • 53 min

Back in November, I had a fascinating conversation with Laura Hutlfess, the co-founder of FlyteVu.
FlyteVu is an entertainment marketing agency based in Nashville.
Laura has a talent management background and worked for CAA before branching out independently.
In our conversation, we talked about her background, the type of work the agency does, the importance of agility and nimbleness, her perspective on talent, working with start-ups, and what it means to lead as a founder.
FlyteVu's clients include- Amazon, Jack Daniels, Bumble, and Victoria's Secret.

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Neal Mann- Co-Founder- NOAN

A few weeks back, I got to talk to Neal Mann.
Neal has had a fascinating career. Working in the literal frontlines of journalism, he got to experience the pressures and realities of getting stories out to the world before your competitors. He was an early advocate and power user of digital platforms like Twitter and understood the transformations happening to news and journalism. He spent time helping News Corp and Dow Jones with their digital transformations and at Anomaly, where he was Director of Content and Global Head of Transformation.
Neal has recently relocated from the US to Portugal, where he now works as the co-founder of NOAN, a start-up that uses AI to empower millions of small business owners to compete with the big guys.

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Keely Adler- VP, Cultural Futurist- Dentsu Creative and Core Team, RADAR

Last December, I recorded a podcast with Keely Adler, who heads up Futures at Dentsu Creative.

This was before the agency's huge T-Mobile win, in which Keely played a huge part. In this conversation, we talked about how she sees the discipline of "Futures" (what it is and what it isn't) and its role in strategy and for clients. Keely is also on the core team of the RADAR group, which is a fascinating group of futurists and those interested in the future. It's a DAO, which makes it somewhat unique as an organization, and its purpose is to promote "futures" thinking and to create reports on the topic.

The most recent RADAR report is "Our Centaur Future" which RADAR describe as..... "At the convergence of man and machine lies Our Centaur Future. But what shape should that convergence take? Yes, this is about AI... but we’re going well beyond that. In the now, the near, and the next, it’s clear that we’ll be living (working, playing, learning, and creating) with more human-like technology than we’ve ever dealt with before. What does this mean for our relationship with technology? For our relationship with our humanity? For how we think about the physical, the digital, and the spaces in between?"