SM: What was your expertise in the agency world? TB: I was an account executive. I had both a packaged goods start in the business but quickly got an opportunity to work on some technology accounts. I worked on the Polaroid business as they were getting into magnetic media, selling video tapes and compact disks
Tom Bedecarre is the CEO of AKQA, an award winning, privately held ad agency with roots in San Francisco. Tom provided a fascinating interview, and a really good discussion about the emergence of new media and how it shifts the power balance in the advertising marketplace. As is customary, we begin the interview by learning