Building the future of pipegen 🚀

Hi 👋🏼 I'm Josh. Building, Vector to help marketers target their ad spend on the exact contacts they care about (and none they don't)!

Previously:
- Built the Solutions Engineering team @ Drift from Series B - Vista acquisition 🦄
- Exited GrowthStack - A hybrid RevOps agency + SaaS company 🎉
- Exited GoCable - A rapid prototyping SaaS for subsea cables 🐙
- Served as an intel analyst in the USAF ✈️

Joshua Perk

After 3 years of building Vector 👻, we finally announced our leadership principles at our 2026 company kickoff yesterday.

I had held off introducing core values for a variety of reasons:
1/ If you "do culture" the wrong way, it's eye roll inducing
2/ I'd been at companies with such special culture, I felt imposter syndrome grafting our own
3/ We were pretty busy in 2025
4/ I felt it was important to observe the unique culture our team naturally resonated with

Thanks to some incredible wisdom from Heather Doshay, when I finally sat down to build our principles, I did it with intention. I thought about what we wanted to stand for. I gathered perspectives from our team.

But most importantly, I wrote down what we did not want to stand for.

We reject corporate theater. We are:
- Unusual
- Unrelenting
- Unfiltered
- Unfinished

If you're curious, here's Vector's UNculture I shared with the team yesterday 👇

Thank you to our entire team for a wonderful 2026 kickoff and our customers we get the honor of serving.

(P.S. If this culture sounds fitting, we'll be hiring across every department this year! Reach out.)

Joshua Perk 👻

Vector's Unculture

Not a bad way to start the year! Welcome to our newest class of hires!

8 months ago I posted (while at the gym):

Buying an ABM platform is like joining a gym…
 …and then only using the sauna.

Feels productive.
Smells productive.
Zero gains. 💪❌

That post blew up (by my non-thought leader definition).

This week on the pod, Jess casually said:
 “If we’re an ad tech company now… shouldn’t we be running ads?”

All she needed was:
 • A designer
 • Someone to launch them
 • Tens of thousands of dollars
 • Me to briefly consider a second career

So we did the scary thing: We took something that already worked organically and put paid behind it.

Result? That dumb little gym post turned into a thought leadership ad with an 18% CTR.

Which is how I learned I am a total thot...leader.

Big lessons from the episode:
 – Ads are a distribution lever, not a creativity crutch
 – Safe creative = expensive mediocrity
 – Mascots > stock photos
 – Test messaging in ads before you rebuild your website
 – Cost per ICP click > vanity metrics
 – If it’s working, don’t “optimize” it into the ground (looking at you, Chick-fil-A cows)

Also: we shipped cost per ICP click reporting inside Vector 👻 (yes, in our cheapest plan)!

If you’re thinking about starting ads, scaling ads, or realizing you bought an expensive gym membership just to stretch… this one’s for you.

Jess Cook is conspiring to get me canceled.

And I can prove it.

How?

One day her and 👾 Alex called me up (fairly giddy, I might add) with an idea.

Them: "Want to do the podcast LIVE?!"

Me: "You mean the one that we have a professional editor for because of the unhinged things that need to be removed?"

Them: "YEAH THAT ONE. Marketers love realness. We can do a 2026 special episode. All the trends we're seeing. The bets we're making."

So. We're doing that.

Watch the beginning of my end. Live.

Adam Robinson

Have you seen him in your feed?

I have. Hard to avoid. (For better or worse?!)

And seeing him in my feed a few years ago was part of the reason I built Vector 👻 the way I did.

Fast forward to today, RB2B and Vector barely come up against each other.

Why? Despite starting in similar places, we took our companies entirely different directions.

Vector moved into the enterprise. Started focusing on advertising and marketing.

RB2B found a way to automate the entire company with 3 FTEs. Vector's Customer Success team is more than 3 FTEs alone.

I'll argue it's because we're building something big. Adam will argue it's because we have VC overlords and have to.

Wish you could see the argument live?

Tune in today @ 3p EST:

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I went against every piece of conventional wisdom hiring Jess Cook as our first marketing hire.

She's got a content background. Not demand.
She hadn't owned the entire marketing funnel.
She was seasoned in brand versus leads.

The result? She was the best marketing leader we could have found.

Here's why:

1/ Authenticity
The Jess you see online is the Jess I see in meetings. When I'm fortunate enough to share a dinner with her, her incredible husband Brandon, and my wife the evenings go on for ages. There's something special about building with humans (and families!) that are salt of the earth.

Our customers, marketers, are salt of the earth. Creatives. Glass-half-fulls. They see themselves in her.

2/ Brand is the most important currency in 2026
Product is easy to copy. Awareness is not.

The world is filled with noise. Automation is only making it noisier. Standing out takes boldness. Jess dares to be bold. When she joined, I had the idea of using a ghost as our mascot. The rest? Our voice, our events, our brand, our content — her.

3/ Curiosity
Put simply, Jess is one of the most curious people I know. Not knowing how to do things makes her uncomfortable. And she has a bias for action in filling those gaps. Most things can be taught to those who are curious enough to learn them.

So was I genius for hiring her? No. I got lucky.

Am I incredibly grateful I did? You bet.

Jess, you are so deserving of this promotion and I can't wait to see what you and your team achieve in our next chapter!

Ya girl has a new title:
 
VP, Marketing at Vector 👻
 
And while I do my office chair happy dance, I see this as part of a larger and very exciting trend.
 
The next generation of B2B marketing leaders 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 because brand and storytelling have become non-negotiable for growth.
 
In a world where being forgotten is the most expensive problem you can have, the marketers who can: 
→ Tell a story that sticks 
→ Build brand that competitors can't replicate 
→ Create content that makes people feel something
 
... are the ones that smart founders and CEOs will want leading the charge.
 
So to all my fellow content people out there wondering if you can make the leap to marketing leadership:
 
👏 This 👏 is 👏 your 👏 moment.
 
Your ability to translate audience insights into ownable marketing moments is not a nice-to-have anymore.
 
It's the underpinning of modern marketing strategy.
 
And I'm crazy excited to keep proving it with the entire Vector team.

After a year of helping 5,000+ customers with site de-anonymization, we've seen three phases of adoption maturity. 


𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝟭: 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗽𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 → 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀
This is where most people get started, and there's no shame in that. 

Being able to pass high-intent visitors to your sales org is a great way to build pipeline. Sadly, it's the play almost everyone else is running. "I saw you visiting our site" is starting to get old. If you're going to run this play, make sure your messaging creates a feeling of serendipity (not creep). Afterall, seeing someone on your website is what's important to 𝘺𝘰𝘶, not your buyer.

𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝟮: 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗽𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 → 𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
This is one of my favorite use cases!

Ad budgets are often a fairly large line item (and therefore super scrutinized). Being able to reveal who's clicking your ads (even if they don't convert), gives you two incredible playbooks:

1/ Next-generation attribution to prove that your ad spend is working. 

2/ An even higher quality signal to pass to sales. 

𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝟯: 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗽𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 → 𝘅-𝗼𝗿𝗴 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
I'm starting to see a pattern in our top 1% adoption. 

Instead of Vector being purchased just by marketing, they get the buy-in from RevOps early. (Shout out Sara McNamara).

RevOps has such a fantastic view across the entire business. So they immediately start seeing opportunities on how site de-anonymization can help ads, attribution, PLG, sales, and even the customer team.

Example. At Vector 👻, we're running tons of plays using our pixel:
 • Open opp visitor → multithreading alert
 • Ad click → marketing attribution
 • PLG visitor → upgrade play
 • ICP → have rep connect on LinkedIn
 • Existing customer looking at playbooks → customer play

𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘'𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 😬

Enterprise adoption of site de-anonymization, requires enterprise capabilities. Each of these plays requires different information being sent to different teams.

For a year, we've had the ability to send different signals to different Slack channels, but the message was always the same. 😭

Until now! Starting today, our customers can customize what notifications look like so you can spend 2026 parsing through less noise and more time driving pipeline! Available in all plans!

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Hi, I'm Luke, a self-taught software engineer with experience in developing scalable and accessible web and mobile applications. I have a strong background in: React, Next.js, Node, PostgreSQL, Python, React Native, Swift, Go, SQL, CSS, HTML, SaSS, TailwindCSS, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, and Docker, and I'm always eager to learn new tools and languages.

I have worked with startups of all stages and I'm interested in early-stage to mid-stage startup roles. In my previous role as a Software Engineer at Synechron, I was responsible for developing and maintaining enterprise-level applications for clients in the financial services industry. I worked closely with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, project managers, and quality assurance engineers, to gather requirements, design solutions, and ensure successful project delivery.

Some of my highlights include:

- I designed and developed prototype software for First Abu Dhabi Bank to address pressing issues with their retail credit card offerings, resulting in substantial cost savings and enhanced customer satisfaction.
- I built a web scraper capable of aggregating data across billions of web pages, which has since been adapted for various purposes such as providing consumer insights at scale and supporting tech recruitment efforts.

I'm based in Belfast, and travelling across South-East Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and North America. I am open to relocation opportunities. If you're interested in connecting or discussing opportunities, feel free to reach out.

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