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The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 42 | Chris Walker’s Evolution in 2025This episode is a full recap of Chris Walker’s B2B era. From the early Refine Labs days, to Dark Social, to leaving his own company, to launching Encoded and talking about “frequency.”
We cover:
How Chris Walker rose to become one of the most influential voices in B2B marketing
The Dark Social era and why it resonated so hard
Why he left Refine Labs and what he’s up to now
Why the backlash was inevitable
If you’ve followed Chris Walker for years, this episode will connect the dots.
If you’re n...
2025-12-3132 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 41 | The Astronomer.io CEO Saga ExplainedIn this 2025 B2B recap episode, we explain the Astronomer CEO scandal and why it became such a defining moment for the industry.
We cover:
How and what happened
The company’s response and whether it was brilliant or not
And what this says about leadership and accountability in B2B
Catch up here.
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Connect with the hosts:
Tim Davidson – linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41
Tas Bober – linkedin.com/in/tasbober
Subscribe for more no-BS breakdowns of the internet’s wildest B2B m...
2025-12-3121 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 40 | B2B’s Biggest Stories of 2025 Recap: Rippling, Deel, and a Tale of Corporate EspionageWelcome back to part 2 of our miniseries where we recap the full-blown B2B SaaS James Bond tale of 2025: the Rippling vs Deel rivalry and the accusations of corporate espionage.
Here’s what actually went down:
Rippling sues Deel over alleged corporate espionage
A fake Slack “honeypot” used to catch a spy
A former Rippling employee allegedly recruited while still employed
Payments involving cash and cryptocurrency
A court order, a locked bathroom, and a wiped phone
Deel’s Head of Comms resigns
Rippling reportedly raising at a $16B valuation
Deel fires back with five s...
2025-12-2431 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 39 | B2B’s Biggest Stories of 2025 Recap: Apollo, Seamless, and the LinkedIn CrackdownWe are ending the year with a miniseries recapping B2B’s biggest stories in 2025 starting with one of the most talked-about B2B moments this year - LinkedIn removing company pages for major data providers like Apollo, Seamless AI, and other lesser-known rivals.
The move signaled something bigger:
⦁ A clear stance against tools scraping LinkedIn personal data
⦁ A warning shot to the B2B data ecosystem
⦁ And a reminder of how fragile platform-dependent distribution really is
What makes this story notable isn’t just the ban. It’s what...
2025-12-2414 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 38 | AI Product Placements: Why This Will Absolutely Get AbusedIn this episode, we break down a viral xAI hackathon project that lets AI dynamically insert product placements into TV shows and movies.
Not ads. Not sponsorships. Actual objects inside the scene.
This goes for new shows AND old.
Coffee cups in Suits replaced with Coca-Cola cans.
Headphones in Friends swapped for modern brands.
Clickable product placements inside Netflix-style interfaces.
Tas loved it but Tim is foreseeing absolute abuse of the tech and he explains why.
In this episode, we cover:
Updated LinkedIn demographics data from Tas and why reporting on it is messie...
2025-12-1858 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 37 | What Happens When You Change Your LinkedIn Gender?It's Tas' birthday but she has a present for you - results from a LinkedIn demographic change...and the numbers are messy.
We break down the “straight white male” profile switch, the 16–18x impression spike ChatGPT claims, why Tim won’t trust a single line without a Google Sheet, and whether the lift came from demographics, better content, or one 85K-view outlier post boosted by Chris Walker.
Then we zoom out into the wider B2B circus:
• A Reddit marketing thread showing exactly how NOT to use Reddit unless you enjoy getting shredded in t...
2025-12-0951 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 36 | Adobe Bought SEMRush for $1.9B. Pray for the UI.Adobe just dropped $1.9B to acquire SEMRush, and we're already bracing for impact. In Episode 36, we speculate what a big acquisition means if history has told us anything.
We cover it all:
First, we need your feedback to make this show even more notorious
Do LinkedIn’s demographic settings impact your impressions?
Cloudflare’s 4th outage of the year that took down 25% of the internet
Cursor’s 12X jump and the real drama behind it (with OpenAI)
Why ChatGPT keeps saying yes to everything and how to make it stop
The candidate who did 11 technical interviews and still...
2025-11-2656 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 35 | Fireflies’ “AI” Notetaker Was Just Two Founders Taking Notes
This week on Notorious B2B, we break down one of the wildest SaaS origin stories out there.
Fireflies AI - It's in the name but there was no AI (at least in the beginning). Just the founder sitting in calls and taking notes by hand. The purest form of validation: do the work manually until you know people want it.
We also get into:
• Duolingo pulling the salary range on their social role and the internet noticing instantly
• Umault’s B2B horror short about marketing jargon (and the strange reuse of the same v...
2025-11-191h 01
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 34: Warmly’s Deanonymization Drama and How They Handled It
This week, Clark Barron, the King of B2B call outs, set his sights on Warmly, a company that helps sales teams identify anonymous website visitors.
He called them out for allegedly deanonymizing website visitors without their consent (with logs and receipts). But that’s not the core of the drama.
Warmly’s CEO responds and…it’s not what you think. Watch to see how the thread unfolded.
We also cover:
Clay’s marketing plays that has the internet deciding if they love or hate it
One SaaS company’s unique take on addressing competitors o...
2025-11-131h 15
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 33 | Grammarly is now Superhuman. Smart pivot or brand suicide?Grammarly is no longer Grammarly.
It’s now Superhuman.
A billion-dollar brand name… gone overnight.
In this episode of Notorious B2B, we dig into why a company with insane brand equity would scrap its own name — and what it says about B2B’s obsession with “category creation” and AI positioning.
We also cover:
• The $500 LinkedIn influencer experiment that turned into a fake-engagement horror story
• Amazon’s rumored plan to replace warehouse workers with “Cobots” while cutting 14,000 jobs
• The rise of invisible AI edits — and how one “AI-enhanced” headshot crossed...
2025-11-0659 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 32 | Ramp Made Expenses Go Viral (With Kevin Malone from The Office)Ramp somehow made one of the most boring SaaS products on Earth go viral. They locked Kevin Malone from The Office in a glass box for his “first day as CFO,” live from Flatiron in NYC.
Receipts flying, weddings happening, TikTok stars crashing the scene, and hundreds of people gathering to watch.
They made some noise and people showed up.
In this episode of Notorious B2B, we break down how Ramp pulled off the most entertaining brand campaign in recent B2B history, and what your team can actually learn from it.
2025-10-3046 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 31 | Virio’s $1.5M “Head of CEO Content” Stunt: Genius or Cringe?A startup called Virio posted a $1.5M job for “Head of CEO Content.”
LinkedIn lost its mind. Turns out, the job wasn’t real.
It was a PR stunt and one of the smartest we’ve seen in B2B.
Some other things we cover this episode:
• How a “default to AI” note from a CEO backfired
• Deloitte’s 440k report that was written by AI
• B2B’s demo process that remains broken
If you’ve ever cringed at LinkedIn “thought leadership,” this one’s therapy.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Welcome to Notorious B2B
1:40 – Big prompt energy: Open Door CEO told the team to default to AI...
2025-10-1552 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 30 | Chris Walker vs. Clark Barron: the “vibe grifting” debateEpisode 30 of Notorious B2B is pure B2B madness. Tas and Tim dive into the most chaotic marketing stories of the week:
Neil Patel’s email that tells you to gate everything and also nothing
Accenture laying off 11,000 people for “AI reasons” that make zero sense
Comment gating fails on LinkedIn that prove marketers have lost the plot
AI startup "Friend" has their million-dollar ads vandalized in NYC
And Chris Walker vs Clark Barron in the “Vibe Grifting” debate no one asked for
Connect with the hosts:
Tim Davidson – linkedin.com/in/tadavidson41
Tas Bober – linkedin.com/in/tasbober...
2025-10-081h 09
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 29 | Zoom ChatBot Fail, Fiverr Layoffs & Viral Flan Prank on Outreach AutomationIn Episode 29 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas made it through a really beefy docket filled with AI drama, weird Linkedin automations, and more layoffs because of “AI”.
First up: Little Post Manager’s bizarre tactic of tagging creators in AI-generated one-liners that make zero sense (including Tas “ditching lectures”). Then it’s onto Fiverr, who just laid off 30% of its workforce in the name of AI and told their internal freelancers to “find work on the platform.” Brutal.
OpenAI is also in the spotlight, with its $500B Stargate project raising questions about debt, environmental impact, and the future cost...
2025-10-0152 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 28 | Exit Five's Drive Event Recap, Apollo’s Surprising Growth & Zendesk’s Big SunsetIn Episode 28 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas are back on Zoom (boo) after Drive to debrief on all the B2B chaos (sort of) from event drama to brand growth that won’t quit.
They kick things off by announcing their brand-new podcast The Marketer’s Exit, sharing why they launched it and what listeners can expect. Then it’s onto Drive highlights: the first-ever Notorious B2B live show, Harry Dry’s masterclass talk, a scavenger hunt gone sideways, and whether moving Drive to a Vermont lodge will change the vibe.
Back in the n...
2025-09-2451 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 27 | Neil Patel’s “No Comment,” Canva Layoffs & LinkedIn’s New Verification RulesIn Episode 27 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas record their first in-person episode at Drive by Exit Five thanks to Dom Odoguardi (ask him why he quit his job), and the docket’s packed with interesting takes, data breaches, and some AI-fueled controversy.
First up: Neil Patel makes headlines at Inbound by refusing to share how he’s actually using Reddit for LLM visibility, literally answering “no comment” on stage. Then, another wave of B2B data breaches hits, including Insight Partners quietly disclosing a January cyberattack, and Canva shocks LinkedIn with layoffs just weeks after making employ...
2025-09-1727 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 26 Featuring We're Not Marketers | Figma Stock Tanks and LinkedIn Kills Another StartupEpisode 26 of Notorious B2B is a full crossover mashup with the We’re Not Marketers crew. With Tim off at Inbound, Tas ropes in Zach, Eric, and Gab for a live reaction pod to the week’s wildest B2B stories.
First up: Figma’s shares plunge 20% post-IPO as lofty valuations meet reality. The crew debates whether B2B’s obsession with inflated ROI claims is to blame. Then it’s on to LinkedIn axing Amplemarket, another $12M startup banned for automation and scraping, signaling the crackdown is far from over.
From there, sparks fly in product...
2025-09-1059 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 25 | Salesforce-Drift Data Breach, Databricks $100B Valuation & Ex-Duolingo’s Employees Savage FarewellEpisode 25 of Notorious B2B is stacked with hot takes, and some savage career moves. First, Tim and Tas break down how Drift’s Salesforce integration was compromised, leading to widespread data theft that even pulled in Google Workspace accounts. Then it’s on to Databricks hitting a $100B valuation making it one of the most valuable startups on earth and why their 50% YoY revenue growth has investors piling in.
The circle back section gets juicy: Duolingo’s former social lead Zaria Parvez leaves with a viral mic-drop illustration (literally sitting on the dead owl) as she heads...
2025-09-031h 12
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 24 | Meta’s Disturbing AI Rules, Workday's CRM Breach, and Gating Assets We Don't Own
Episode 24 of Notorious B2B is loaded. Tim and Tas start with Meta’s leaked internal AI rules, which is crazy. Another week, another breach this time Workday’s CRM information, where hackers used phishing calls to sneak into Salesforce-powered databases holding customer data.
The docket also hits Mailchimp’s CEO transition, Clark Barron’s teardown of Clay’s $3.1B valuation and its “GTM engineering” hype, and Chris Walker’s surprise return with a new “frequency era” pivot. Plus: a remote hire caught secretly working six full-time jobs, the wildest case of comment-gating yet (plugging a book the poster didn’t even write), and Cisc...
2025-08-2758 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 23: Perplexity’s $34B Stunt, Mailchimp Hack Fizzles & LinkedIn Crackdowns Continue
Tim and Tas are back with an absolute monster docket in Episode 23 of Notorious B2B.
First up: Perplexity offering $34.5B (cash they definitely don’t have) to “buy” Google Chrome — easily the most absurd headline of the week. Then it’s the Mailchimp hack that turned out to be less than 1GB of stolen data, LinkedIn quietly shutting down dozens of automation tools, and a circle back on the Salesloft + Clari merger with new news.
Also in this episode:
• Duolingo’s stock rockets up, then crashes after a GPT-5 demo
• Builder AI’s founder’s shady history resurface...
2025-08-201h 09
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 22: Gong Throws Shade, SaaS Pay Disasters & The LinkedIn Post ThiefIn Episode 22 of Notorious B2B, Tim goes solo (yes, Tas took PTO like a weirdo) and unpacks one of the spiciest dockets yet.
First up: Two Sales tech giants Salesloft and Clari merge and one of their competitor: Gong turns it into a roast on Linkedin. Then, we look at Microsoft Teams’ surprising dominance over Slack (Which is sad), and the shocking pay ranges companies are offering for heavy-duty creative and strategy roles.
Also in this episode:
• Buffer cancels your unused paid plan on purpose (How nice of them)
• The death spiral of Linke...
2025-08-1332 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 21: Astronomer’s PR Stunt and a Legal AI Startup Fires the Wrong PersonIn Episode 21 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas have a pretty light week in B2B...or did we?
First up: Astronomer’s viral Gwyneth Paltrow video. Is it a brilliant crisis PR pivot… or a tone-deaf distraction from a scandal?
Then we dive into the loudest voices in B2B attribution and ask the big question: If your software actually solved the problem, wouldn’t every marketer be raving about it?
In this episode:
• HockeyStack’s cold call metrics — legit or LinkedIn theater?
• A jaw-dropping antisemitic comment at a legal AI startup that g...
2025-08-061h 03
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 20: Astronomer's Response to CEO Scandal, Replit's AI Disaster, and the 20K Cold Call Per Day ControversyIn Episode 20 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas unpack the messiest moments in tech and B2B this week, from shady ticket scams to a cold call claim that has all of LinkedIn dissecting B2B math.
What’s inside:
• Astronomer’s CEO officially resigns after viral Coldplay affair scandal and their official statement.
• Warmly openly admits to price colluding?
• Scale AI pulls job offer 3 days before start date, leaving new grad stranded
• Replit’s AI agent deletes a live codebase
• A new LinkedIn scam that involves Oasis tickets (yes, really...
2025-07-301h 03
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 19: Adam Robinson replaces employees with AI, LinkedIn sues a data scraper, and the startup scammer Soham goes full influencerIn episode 19 of Notorious B2B, Tas gets “AI-ed” into a completely different person, twice. Then she and Tim spiral into the wildest stories in B2B this week: scams, shutdowns, and more.
What’s inside:
• Two podcasts supposedly AI-edit Tas’ face (badly)
• Adam Robinson of RB2B replaces 40% of his employees with AI
• Soham, the 5-job scammer, becomes a meme, and gets his own diss track
• Another LinkedIn scraper caught and gets shut down after LinkedIn sues them
• And yes, someone brought a mug covered in boobs to a client call
Also: hel...
2025-07-2546 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 18: Astronomer's CEO scandal, $200M paydays & B2B uses Paypal to get shadyIn Ep. 18 of Notorious B2B, Tas and Tim are back after a short break and so is the drama. From LinkedIn threats and AI-fueled phishing sites to a fake landing page targeting competitors, this episode might set off a few C&Ds.
What’s inside:
• Coldplay frontman accidentally exposes a B2B CEO’s affair on a jumbotron
• Lovable raises a $200M Series A at a $1.8B valuation — maybe the biggest ever
• Meta poaches an Apple engineer with a $200M package
• Windsurf employees get left behind after the CEO sells out
• Companies are now sending 2¢ via Pay...
2025-07-2534 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 17: Expensify’s $40M Ad Gamble, Oracle’s $30B Closed/Won Deal & B2B’s Wildest Scam YetIn Episode 17 of Notorious B2B, Tim joins from a mystery Montana location while Tas surprises Tim with the podcast’s first-ever music video by none other than the Sales Rapper of B2B, Ding Zheng. If you know, you know.
But there's more:
- Expensify’s wild $40M product placement gamble and the B2B math to get 5x ROI
- Oracle’s $30B OpenAI deal - and whether the AE actually got paid?!
- A developer who scammed 4 B2B startups at the same time
- AI scams...
2025-07-0943 min
2025-07-0301 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 16: 6Sense avoids a lawsuit, getting fired for liking a LinkedIn post, and B2B OnlyFans?!In Episode 16 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas are back (guns out, jackets off) to break down the weirdest, wildest stories in B2B.
They’re digging into a lawsuit against 6sense that just got thrown out, the extremely detailed investigation Rippling just dropped on Deel, and a marketing scandal involving… an office-based OnlyFans shoot?! Plus: the latest on Builder.ai crash-out, a sad LinkedIn firing story, and why you should stop pasting links in other people’s posts.
What’s inside:
• 6sense sued for using real people in sales decks and what the judge said about...
2025-07-021h 01
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 15: Rippling’s Billing Drama, CapCut Controversy & Deleting Linkedin for $1MIn Episode 15 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas reunite to go scorched-earthish on billing scams, shady platforms, and unhinged marketing tactics.
We’ve got Rippling’s sketchy seat-based pricing (with receipts), CapCut’s wild new terms of service, and the truth about why links in your LinkedIn posts might tank your reach. Plus: B2B Gift card scamming is now a thing, so you all better watch out
Inside:
• Rippling’s billing drama goes viral and it’s not just a glitch
• CapCut claims rights to your content forever
• Meta confirms: links kill social reach
• Review platforms are getting harder to trust
• AI sc...
2025-06-2559 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 14: G2's sketchy acquisition and other Clark Barron spicy takesEpisode 14 of Notorious B2B might be missing Tim but we more than make up for it. Tas burns it all down with Clark Barron.
We discuss:
G2’s new AI acquisition and why it's smelling fishy
AI-powered scams (check on your gifting campaigns)
Why person-level identification is disrespectful
The Hubspot/ChatGPT integration could be big trouble
The vibe this episode is "composed rage".
Hit play if you dare.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro – Welcome to Notorious B2B
0:51 – Casual banter & guest introductions
3:54 – G2’s new AI acquisition setup
23:51 – AI-powered scams & gifting campaign warning
36:53 – RB2B being spyware
43:10 – HubSpot + ChatGPT integration could be big...
2025-06-1851 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 13: G2's paywall drama, Toast's freelancer scandal, and this terrible cold outreach strategyThis week on Notorious B2B, we’re back in the B2B trenches.
First up: Builder.AI, the supposed AI unicorn that was actually powered by...700 humans? We are coming for AI's job! Then we unpack G2’s new paywall for badges. Good or bad idea?
Also in this episode:
The worst freelance payment drama we’ve seen in a while (featuring Toast)
Why “scraping LinkedIn likes” is the cold DM strategy no wanted
Hailey Bieber’s billion-dollar deal, and why it’s not a B2B branding lesson
And finally… a LinkedIn DM th...
2025-06-111h 00
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 12: You Can't Sit With Us: Clay, Common Room, and Peep Laja's Hot TakesPeep Laja joined us on Notorious B2B and held nothing back.
We covered:
Why the Clay vs Common Room drama blew up - and who actually started it
The real reason Peep gatekeeps Spryng (and why Exit Five got dragged for doing the same)
Our own mini Wynter-style rapid fire survey, where Peep gives his takes on LinkedIn trauma dumping, the comment-gating trend, hiring porn stars for B2B campaigns, Chris Walker's enlightenment journey, and more
Bonus: Tas gets roasted for not having retainer clients
We get SC...
2025-06-041h 04
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 11 : Builder.ai collapse, LinkedIn trauma dumps, and the ZoomInfo dodgeThis week on Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas unpack the most chaotic headlines in B2B right now.
Here’s what we get into:
– Builder.ai raised $445M… then imploded. The signs were there. No one looked.
– ZoomInfo backed out of a live data showdown (allegedly). It got awkward.
– Duolingo posted a fake kidnapping skit and wiped their socials. We have… questions.
– Another day, another layoff blamed on AI. But is that the whole story?
– And someone tried to link their porn addiction to their entrepreneurial journey. You’re...
2025-05-2855 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 10 : The 11X drama continues, buying Fiverr leads, comparison page beef and dark promptsIn this episode of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas break down the mess behind 11X’s rise and fall. Fake customer logos, inflated ARR and the promise of (or lack of) AI SDRs
They also get into:
How startups stretch the truth to land funding
If influencers should promote tools and tech they don’t use
Why buyers don’t believe comparison pages anymore
A Reddit post where someone bought 100 leads on Fiverr
What “dark prompts” actually means (spoiler: Nothing)
They also talk about why they s...
2025-05-2150 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 9: B2B is unhinged: stolen logos, fake ads, and AI fear emailsWelcome to another chaotic episode of Notorious B2B.
This week, we cover:
Chris Walker’s new “inner peace” company and why his logo might not be as original as his mission
A Deel subway ad that might be real… or might be the best AI prank we’ve seen
Comment-gating is evolving: it’s now in your DMs
The Fiverr CEO’s 12:58 AM (likely) email
And a full-on LinkedIn identity theft case, complete with a cloned website, job history, and yes - stolen Gumroad copy
Plus: a Notori...
2025-05-1457 minThe Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 8: Deel finally claps back, Exit Five Drive grand finale, and Duolingo catches heat for AIThe drama continues.
In Ep. 8 of Notorious B2B, Tim and Tas dig into the messiest updates in tech right now: the spy war between Rippling and Deal escalates, the finalé on Exit Five’s application-based event, and Duolingo catches fire for saying they’ll replace contractors with AI. (Yeah, that went great.)
What’s inside:
• Deel hits back at Rippling with a 5-count lawsuit with a wild counterspy claim
• Duolingo's "AI-first" announcement goes off the rails
• Exit Five rejection-ish emails go out
• Reddit asks: are LinkedIn influencers actually bad hires?
Oh, and...
2025-05-071h 10
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 7: Comment Gating, Exit Five Drama, and GTM Engineering Rants | Notorious B2BThis might be our spiciest episode yet. Tim and Tas are joined by Brendan Hufford to tear into the tactics and trends breaking (and embarrassing) B2B.
What’s inside:
• The truth behind 8,000-comment LinkedIn posts (and who’s really getting the asset)
• Comment gating, fake pipeline claims, and why the numbers don’t add up
• A deep dive into Exit Five’s invite-only event drama and ICP filtering
• Why Pavilion’s CEO went full rant mode—and how the marketing community clapped back
• Who really benefits from “go-to-market engineering” (and who’s just making up words)
...
2025-04-301h 01
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 3: Deel vs Rippling Gets Messier, Apollo’s Non-Apology & Shady B2B TacticsB2B espionage, fake job postings, influencer chaos — yep, we’re covering it all this week on Notorious B2B.
What’s inside:
• Spy games escalate: The full story behind Deel vs Rippling (toilet phone and all)
• Apollo’s CEO finally responds—and says absolutely nothing
• Seamless still silent, and people are gaming the system for followers
• The Reddit marketing “growth hack” that crossed the line
• Fake job posts, shady Chrome extensions, and AI influencer spam
• How B2B influencer deals really work (pricing, red flags, and what not to do)
• Do LinkedIn creators...
2025-04-291h 06
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 6: Inbox Karens, Exit Five event applications, and why your website data is probably fakeThis week, we talk about:
The “Inbox Karen” drama and the limits of provocative content
The Exit Five’s application process to attend their event
The truth about RB2B’s CRM data collection
Why every website visitor tool is lying to you in a slightly different way
And the shady new trend of companies using your job application project… and ghosting you after
Also: petty revenge, fake job titles, and a marketing AI tool that claims it replaces your $200K team
Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
02:20 – Devin Reed vs I...
2025-04-221h 02
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 5: Chris Walker finds enlightenment, B2B reshuffles, and the power of one commentWe covered a lot of ground in this one - from spiritual awakenings to burner phones.
In this episode:
Chris Walker goes full guru mode (and we kind of love it?)
TACK shuts down and the Mark + Nick split has us speculating
Apollo continues its quiet unraveling with key team exits
Deel’s spy drama somehow escalates
A founder comments on a HubSpot post… and walks away with an investor
Also: we talk about why showing up on LinkedIn still matters (even if you’re not pi...
2025-04-1736 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 4: Corporate spies, shitposts, and shady integration accusations: just another week in B2BThis one had range.
We circled back on the rise and fall of “comment for the asset” LinkedIn posts (spoiler: people are still mad), and then covered everything from:
The “weird LinkedIn” trend
RB2B’s spyware accusation and why marketers are suddenly reading terms of service
Air’s campaign backlash and why we’re still defending it
A live reading of corporate espionage between Deal and Rippling
Duolingo’s ridiculous April Fool’s campaign (and why B2B brands can never)
Plus, we noodle on mascots, protest marketing...
2025-04-1754 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 2: B2B SaaS partnering with pornstars, public tear-downs, & Linkedin shut down Apollo and Seamless!?We had a docket. We couldn't finish it all. Who knew B2B had so much drama?
Here's what we did cover:
Air’s wild anti-Dropbox ad featuring an actual adult film star (and why we kind of loved it)
The difference between a teardown and a public roast (with a special guest appearance: Tas getting publicly roasted)
What happens when LinkedIn shuts down your entire company page (Seamless.ai and Apollo, this one’s for you)
The ethics of teardown content, the ROI of pettiness, and how not to pit...
2025-04-0632 min
The Notorious B2B Show’s PodcastEpisode 1: Million dollar giveaways, boobs guy and the comment bait economy on LinkedinWe kick off episode one by giving kudos where it's due (spoiler: someone actually won $1M from a Super Bowl AI promo and no one seems to care).
Then we get into the current state of LinkedIn:
The rise of “comment to get the asset” bait
The performance math behind it (yes, we did the math)
What happens when you don’t deliver
And yes... we talk about that “boobs on LinkedIn” guy
This episode is basically a tour through all the unhinged parts of the B2B content econ...
2025-04-0645 min