Vlad Podoliako — Founder & CEO | Forbes 30U30 🔥 | Investor | Accelerating & Retaining Revenue Growth | AI Evangelist | Advisor |TOP-5 Service Companies Globally 2025 by Clutch
Founder & CEO | Forbes 30U30 🔥 | Investor | Accelerating & Retaining Revenue Growth | AI Evangelist | Advisor |TOP-5 Service Companies Globally 2025 by Clutch
Vlad Podoliako ranks #577 of 18,566 LinkedIn creators in Marketing & Advertising, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 33.8K followers and published 28 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.1% average engagement rate.
- 33.8K followers
- 28 posts / 60d
- 0.1% avg engagement
- 265 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Vlad lists his startup as a Top-5 Global Service Company for 2025, which is a bold move considering his main business is just teaching people how to spam my inbox until I die of rage. He claims to be an AI Evangelist, but his strategy is clearly just training a bot to pretend he has friends.
About Vlad
I’m on a mission to transform bold ideas into unstoppable growth. Over the past decade, I’ve founded and scaled multiple SalesTech and MarTech ventures—including Belkins (a top-rated B2B Aquistion agency) and Folderly (an all-in-one Email Deliverability platform)—because I believe in building real solutions that fuel revenue and spark innovation. When I’m not busy refining outbound sales strategies or optimizing email performance, I invest in and advise forward-thinking tech ventures like InSoft Partners, Wordstir, GigRadar, Winc Wines, and Cloudfresh. From product creation to digital marketing, I’m all about pushing boundaries and crafting winning growth strategies that make a real impact. I’m always seeking new opportunities to collaborate, whether it’s co-building the next product disruptor, exploring M&A possibilities, or strategizing with fellow founders and investors on high-potential projects. If you’re looking to scale your organization, launch a transformative venture, or explore strategic partnerships across industries, let’s connect and turn big ambitions into lasting success.
Highlights
- Top 5% Audience — 33,796 followers
- Top 5% Creator — 28 posts in 30 days
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #232 of 5851 creators
- Top 10% in Marketing & Advertising — Ranked #84 of 1092 creators
Recent posts
I paid to promote one of my own posts last week. And It was the worst thing I published. Not by reach. By reach it won easily — roughly eight times the audience of anything else that week. By everything that actually matters, it lost to a post I wrote in four minutes and spent nothing on. One seventh the engagement rate. Fewer total human reactions than the smallest organic post of the week. Three new followers. I've spent a decade buying attention on behalf of other companies and I still walked straight into it. I treated distribution as a volume problem. 💡 The lesson: paid reach doe
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Worldwide AI spending hits $2.59 trillion this year. Up 47% in twelve months. Over the same period, the share of companies reporting real trouble adopting it went up by double digits. Spending grew 47%. Competence went backwards. Gartner's own note on that forecast says most of the money is going into tactical, incremental efficiency — not into changing how the business actually works. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 $𝟮.𝟱𝟵 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲. 𝗔𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲. I ran Belkins for ten years to $100M+ in revenue with
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OpenAI just put its agents on a meter. Usage-based billing — you pay per task, per run, per token. The whole feed read that as "AI is finally cheaper than headcount." Here's what it actually is: the cost didn't disappear. It moved — from a salary line you control to a meter you don't. A salaried hire is a fixed cost. An agent that bills per action is a variable cost that scales with the exact thing you're trying to grow. At Belkins we run 300 people. Our most expensive year wasn't payroll — it was the $200K we burned scaling the wrong activity before we found the bottleneck. Agents don't
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Last updated 2026-08-01