
Marketing School · 2026-06-30 · 31 min
Growth Newsletter: Need marketing help? Visit: and Want to recruit great marketers? Find them here: Eric and Neil unpack Greg Isenberg's tweet on the most valuable marketing skills right now, working through community building, storytelling, the forward deployed marketer model, data literacy, and relentless experimentation. They flag the "abdication of intelligence" trap: using AI without judgment turns capable marketers into slop cannons, while people who can show real agent deployments separate themselves from the pretenders. Neil makes the case for deep networking as an underrated force multiplier, then Eric raises Aaron Levie's prediction that agents will use software 100x more than people, shifting the game toward agent-ready content, products, and skills libraries. A practical episode on building the AI-native marketing skill set before everyone else does.