Future speaker ideas for STM (35)
Hey guys, cooking up some ideas for future projects!
Who would you like to hear speak at a conference? Big or small, and any topic.
I'd like to hear:
- PewdiePie (#1 Youtube celeb with 39mil channel subscribers)
- AirBNB founder
- Dan Blizerian
and some Guerilla marketing experts.
Gary Vaynerchuk
(Saw his speech at OnlineMarketingRockstars)
Tim Ferriss
Robert Greene
Jackie Chan
Founder of FB
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However, I am certain getting him to speak at ANY public event is considerably less than 0%.
Kim DotCom
Thinking big 
Love it!
Elon Musk
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau
Greg "Mr. 50k a Day" Davis
Shoemoney
Dan Bilzerian's giraffe as special speaker ( https://instagram.com/p/1tXcxboDmi/ )
...Or someone high profile from AppNexus
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Peter Thiel
Anthony robbins
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike!
Mark Cuban
What industries have solutions to parallel problems in affiliate marketing?
I'm especially interested in what the very big single-account facebook spenders are willing to share. None of that cloaking / farming stuff.
Dan Kennedy
Jay Abraham
Gary Bencivenga
Greg Renker (Guy behind Tony Robbins' Personal Power)
Ken McCarthy
Perry Marshall
Joe Sugarman
Fred Catona (Grew priceline to $20B in 18 months should be a good continuation of cmdeal's perspective talk)
Jack Ma
Frank Kern
Eben Pagan
If we are swinging for the fences...
1. The first ever affiliate marketer (I remember seeing this on a thread on here somewhere).
2. The guys who started PornHub & Traffic Junky // Speak on their start up story, and im sure they have some other entertaining stories lol
3. Neil Patel // Speak on building a SaaS businesses / long term assets
4. Q of Worldstarhiphop.com / Speak on building a viral video site
5. The original founders of Youtube before it sold // Speak on their start up story and tips to others
6. Founders of Instagram / WhatsApp Founders (These guys might hate us though #WhatsAppOffers hahah)
7. Hugh Hefner - Building a real life style brand
8. Jay-Z or Diddy // Leveraging your brand to build businesses
9. Matt Cutts so we can Boo him together lol
10. Famous Hackers Who Tell Their Stories (If they are allowed too)
Bonus: Big brand advertisers - Rovio and other heavy hitters to hear how they will be approaching affiliates and lead quality in the coming years.
Ryan eagle 
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Q of Worldstarhiphop.com, and Pornhub guys would definitely all have some very interesting stories to tell.
Few others mentioned above who have grown from affiliate marketing to longer-term products would also be interesting (all who leveraged their affiliate skills to grow something bigger).
I like the idea of a big advertiser (e.g. Rovio) coming to talk about how they feel about affiliates, lead quality, compliance and leveraging the affiliate marketing industry. This could be a great step toward legitimizing an industry plagued by misconceptions, which are at least partially validated by the significant number of rogues.
There's a lot of "GURU's" in here I see. I'd prefer people that built cool stuff.
Bill Gross - Idea Lab
Paul Graham - Ycombinator founder
Ben Horrowitz or Marc Adreesen from Andreesen Horrowitz
Neil Patel - crazyegg, kiss metrics
Anyone that runs Product Marketing for a major DR business to consumer brand.
Eric Lefkovsky - Groupon Founder
More low hanging fruit
Kris Kibak - Founder of Instant Checkmate always has amazing insights
Brandon Adcock or Paul Reichlet founders of Instaflex
Dan Wallace - founder of Force Factor is a smart dude
Founders of Freescore360 were affiliates to start. Not sure of their names though. They've built a HUGE business.
I can help with some of the latter. Prior is all you
Okay, Here is my real recommendation for the speakers.
1. Arindam Chaudhuri: He is an Indian Economist and Marketing Mogul.
2. Greg Davis: Millionaire Mastermind.
3. Neil Patel: SEO Mogul.
4. Dan Bilzerian: Only Poker Guy and my true Motivation to have lifestyle like him.
5. Luke Kling: PeerFly's AM and one of the most participating guy in IM.
6. Gauher Chaudhry: PPV Guy.
7. Jay Smash: Adult Marketer.
These are my recommendation. 
Eben Pagan
Arnold Schwarznegger
A few that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
- Patrick McKenzie (email and programmatic marketing guru from Hacker News).
- Jason Cohen (founder of WP Engine, serial entrepreneur, writer of A Small Bear blog)
- Eric Ries (Lean Startup writer)
- Pat Flynn (Smart Passive Income writer)
And ones who have been mentioned already but I'd really like to see:
- Tim Ferriss
- PewDiePie
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Peter Thiel
- Paul Graham
An interesting one not mentioned here is Mj DeMarco, author of Fastlane Millionaire
Frank Quattrone (tech banker, one of the founders of Qatalyst)
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Well I just want speakers who are STM forum members and maybe couple of guys outside from our industry.
It would be better to have speakers who get the STM award for best follow along thread, best success story, best or most liked thread, best blog, etc
would be nice to hear from them. Would be nice to hear cmdeal, stackman, mr green, caurmen, besmir, maynzie, plus another 10-15 guys for 15 mins.
Also if the next meetup is in BKK or SE Asia then would like to hear 2-3 speakers from those geos.
Please no to PewDiePie... I really can't stand the guy and to me its the equivalent of inviting Kim Kardashian.
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General: Mark Cuban, Dan B, Donald Trump, Elon Musk --> hats off if you can fix one of those guys to speak at an STM event
Affiliate/online world: Ofer Druker (founder Matomy), Mark Walters (CEO Zanox), Aaron Bell (CEO Adroll)
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