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 #73 of 14,983 LinkedIn creators in Marketing & Advertising, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 33.5K followers and published 15 posts in the last 30 days at a 4.4% average engagement rate.
- 33.5K followers
- 15 posts / 30d
- 4.4% avg engagement
- — 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 1% in United States — Ranked #28 of 5205 creators
- Top 1% in Marketing & Advertising — Ranked #7 of 931 creators
- High Impact — 1,466 avg engagements per post · top 5%
- Big Audience — 33,531 followers · top 5%
Recent posts
A founder messaged me last week asking how to dress up his agency for one of the new AI roll-up funds. I gave him the honest answer: those funds aren't acquirers. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸. Around 21 agencies got bought in the first half of this year, mostly between 0.7 and 1.1x revenue. Sit with that. A company sold for less than a single year of the revenue it already earns - to a buyer who plans to run it on a fraction of its people. The fund isn't betting your agency is valuable. It's betting agentic AI lets them keep your clients without keepin
15 reactions · 3 comments · 0 reposts
The gap between people who get value from AI and people who don't is often one thing: Context. Same model. Same capabilities. Completely different outcomes. I went through Claude's entire 23,000-word Constitution and found something interesting: most refusals aren't barriers. They're signals. How many are you misreading?
9 reactions · 1 comments · 0 reposts
Move fast and break things" is the most abused phrase in tech. Every mediocre founder used it to justify shipping garbage. So it got canceled. Retired. Turned into a punchline. That was a mistake. Zuckerberg wasn't talking about breaking trust or users. He was talking about assumptions. Bureaucracy. The internal slowness that kills companies before the market does. What gets overlooked: the manifesto has a second line nobody quotes. Move fast. Break things. Know what you broke. That last part is everything. Facebook failed not because they moved fast. They failed because they had no fee
1 reactions · 0 comments · 0 reposts