We're a diverse group of makers, strategists, developers, data scientists, designers, and more, and while we all have different backgrounds and skills, we all share these core values:
Accuracy
Building trust with our customers is critical to our success. Our words, and tools, must be accurate.
Empathy
We care about our customers' success and are dedicated to making their business, work, and lives better.
Utility
Our solutions must actually be useful. Our focus is on delivering truly functional results.
Joshua Dern
Co-founder & CEO
With over 20+ years of leading digital strategy, content, and transformation in emerging technologies at leading major media corporations and building startups, Joshua loves figuring out the hard stuff. Formerly he was SVP/GM Social Media @Viacom Media Networks/MTVN, CPO @Bedrocket Media Ventures, award-winning product head @Huge for HBO GO, TMN, and more, and former VP Digital @Atlantic Records / WMG.
Joshua lives in the intersection of design, content, technology, and strategy, and he's proud to have overseen so many products that people love and use every day. In his off time you can find him skateboarding, mountain biking, making silly movies, and otherwise spending time with his dog Shmee, and his wife and son.
Andrew Grosso
Co-founder & CPO
For over two decades, he's tackled data insight challenges at scale and run Product & Tech teams and projects at companies both big like NBCU and Pfizer, and start ups like DailyCandy, Vindigo, and Juno Online. He's specialized in MarTech, AdTech, CRM, and Analytics systems. Earlier in his career he was a marketer, analyst, CRM lead, and product manager for data - and Andrew particularly loves working with our users in those roles today.
His hobbies include running marathons, eating all the baked goods, and directing theater. And saying hi to dogs.
Gabe Fabius
Co-founder & COO
Former Senior Program Manager @NBC, @SiriusXM, @DailyCandy and more. Noted expert in launching complex products and managing large scale software projects.
Matt Pelc
Director of Engineering
Matt has two decades of experience in front-end engineering and open source development and system architecture to support customer facing apps. He's passionate about user experience, design, and scalability. And hacking together prototypes.
He spends his free time with his family, and sometimes on his bikes (motorized and human powered).
March Madness with Pickaxe
This month we’ve been hitting the conference circuit, and deep diving into Meridian, Google’s new MMM tool. Plus, we’ve got an exciting new development in our partnership with Braze. Let’s get into it!
March 27, 2024
Here’s what we think about Google’s Meridian
What is Meridian? Is it actually new? Are there some features that Meridian has that are really interesting? How is it different? Just like you, we wanted to know, so we got our very best data nerds on the case.
March 26, 2024
The Super Bowl and You: What to do with all that new data?
High-traffic events like the Super Bowl can easily break a system. Here are some ways to handle massive influxes of data efficiently, and effectively.
February 27, 2024