This week, Travis and Stewart wrap up 2016 - which has been such a great year </sarcasm> - with their predictions for the future of mobile, marketing, engagement, community, and everything else we manage to shoehorn into VB Engage each week. We also thank our families, producers, directors, makeup artists, and editors for 33 episodes of slightly above-average content, and reveal which publication was good enough to put us in their 'must listen' list of marketing podcasts for 2017.
Then, we interview Paddy Cosgrave - the founder of Web Summit - on how he and his team managed to grow this tech event from humble beginnings to an amazing 53,000 visitors in just a few short years. The answers include data science, network effect, and a serious amount of hard work.