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← We're Not Marketers7 May · 42 min

AI is killing your marketing (one way to fix) w/ Gila Shapiro

AI is killing your marketing (one way to fix) w/ Gila Shapiro7 May42 min

Some of B2B are the cool kids shouting "synergy" with spinach dip in hand. Gila Shapiro — copywriter, PMM, and resident chaos agent at Fireflies.ai — joined the crew to roast corporate buzzwords, expose "copy thinking" and "copy pasting" with AI, and give the founder POV trick that ends executive copy fights forever.

If you've ever been asked to "elevate enterprise synergies," this one's for you.

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