The Yield Doctor with James Deaker
The Yield Doctor with James Deaker
Podcast Description
Improving Yield Management in Digital Media
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on various themes related to yield management and digital media, including video advertising strategies, pricing models, and programmatic advertising trends. Examples of episodes include interviews with industry leaders discussing best practices for pricing new products and lessons learned from implementing programmatic advertising.

Improving Yield Management in Digital Media
What is Kana, and how is AI reshaping enterprise marketing? In this episode, Vivek Vaidya (Co-Founder & CTO of Kana; former CTO of Salesforce Marketing Cloud; co-founder of Krux and Habu) breaks down Kana’s vision, tech stack, and how they are automating marketing admin to accelerate growth.
Watch to learn how Kana intelligently structures enterprise context, where AI agents actually deliver ROI, and what the future of data-driven customer engagement looks like from one of enterprise tech’s most experienced architects.
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TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS
0:00 – Introduction & Welcome
01:30 – Who is Vivek Vaidya? (Rapt, Krux, Salesforce, Habu)
04:15 – What is Kana? Solving the Marketing Admin Problem
08:40 – How Kana’s Architecture Integrates with Enterprise Systems
13:10 – The Role of AI Agents & Context Structuring
18:25 – Overcoming Legacy Enterprise Data Bottlenecks
23:50 – The Future of AI in Marketing and Customer Engagement
28:10 – Key Takeaways & Where to Learn More About Kana
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ABOUT VIVEK VAIDYA
Vivek Vaidya is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and Co-Founder/CTO of Kana. Over a 25+ year career, he has built and scaled industry-defining enterprise platforms, including Rapt (acquired by Microsoft), Krux (acquired by Salesforce), and Habu (acquired by LiveRamp). He previously served as CTO of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and is a founding General Partner at super{set}.
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