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Matthew Ellis

Matthew Ellis

Former chief financial officer of Verizon Communications

Aug 5, 2026

0:57
And so tell us a little bit about your journey and how you got to where you are right now.
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Well, thanks.
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It's certainly been a journey.
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I graduated from college in the 90s, which wasn't the best of times.
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And so I went to work for an email marketing startup, which was very cutting edge at the time.
1:17
And I got there and they said, do you know anything about this thing called privacy? And I said, no.
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And they said, no one wants the job.
3:46
Well, that takes us to my next question, which is the challenges you've faced along the way and the tools that you've used to overcome them.

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