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Lina Tonk

Lina Tonk

Three-time SaaS CMO, currently Chief Marketing Officer at Smartling (AI-powered translation platform), previously CMO at Recurly and isolved.

Sep 1, 2026

BenHOST
4:51
But what does it really mean to have localized content in your opinion?
4:54
Yeah, so look, let me go back a little bit.
4:58
Actually, when I started looking at Smartling, it came about because I was looking into global expansion.
5:08
So, and when we think about Not all CMOs, not that I, you know, I'm in a bunch of CMO groups and I've been testing a lot of our localization content and our understanding of CMOs of localization.
5:20
And I realized that is very rare when we actually know the right answer on localization, not that there's a right or wrong answer.
5:31
So I think the simplest way, before we get deep into it, the simplest way that I explain to people is translation is getting the words right.
5:42
So you just literally translate it from one language to another language, where localization is where you make the culture fit.

8 MINS LATER

BenHOST
13:34
I'm already excited for it.

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