What does it take to build a company that doesn't just survive platform shifts—but compounds through them?

In this episode, Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian and CPTO Satish Jayanti sit down with Braze CEO & Co-Founder Bill Magnuson and SVP of Growth Spencer Burke for a wide-ranging conversation on building durable, data-driven growth across technology eras—from mobile to cloud to agentic AI.

With 15+ years of operating experience, Bill and Spencer share how Braze leaned into fundamental shifts in customer behavior, invested early in data foundations, and resisted short-term hype in favor of long-term value creation.

Topics covered:

• Why mobile was the first major inflection point—and what it teaches us about AI
• The shift from acquisition-first to retention-driven growth
• What durable growth actually l ...