Ben Gordon
British-American former basketball player
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Sep 8, 2026
Navigating Mental Health, Growth, And Wellness Beyond Basketball With Ben Gordon
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Ben GordonGUEST
My mom had a A nice seeded watermelon, which seems like it's hard to find these days.
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A View from the Top of the Deal Table: AI, Supply Chain, and the Next Wave of Value
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Wiley JonesHOST
So where do you feel like you want to be spending your time and focusing? And where do you think that the investment landscape should be focusing with respect to where new technology companies are pushing value into the supply chain?

Ben GordonGUEST
So on the tech side, we want companies that are solving a real problem that have real proof points of success and that are winners.

Ben GordonGUEST
How do you know that? Well, you know that not just because the technology is good, but because there's customer adoption.
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Wiley JonesHOST
What is the stuff that you're seeing as you're evaluating opportunities on the services and the technology side where you're like, seems great, sounds great, but we're actually not sure?
45. What it really feels like to sell your agency - OK COOL’s Ben Gordon tells all to Waypoint’s Matt Lacey
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Ben GordonGUEST
I mean, I'd, I'd spent 20 years working in Omnicom and WPP agencies, and when I left those and joined Liz and Jolyon to create OKCool, it was with the proviso that we had to create something different, and we had to practice what we preach.

Ben GordonGUEST
And those agencies that I'd worked with in, in the pastThe, the way that they sold themselves and the way that they told their story was boring, right? The way they used their social channels to talk about the work they did or the people they recruited was boring.

Ben GordonGUEST
You know, it was very formulaic, it was very standardized, and you ended up with just a homogenous mass of different agencies that were pretty much the same, and clients were going there and getting the same answers and the same people.

Ben GordonGUEST
And we decided when we built Ok Cool, we would build it brand up, right? So we would create a brand for an agency that would only hire very certain types of people.
