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Born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1960, Godin took an MBA at Stanford and in 1995 founded Yoyodyne, one of the earliest internet direct-marketing companies; Yahoo acquired it in 1998 for roughly $30 million and he served as Yahoo’s VP of direct marketing before going independent. The Yoyodyne experience and the broader 1990s collapse of interruption-based marketing became the empirical ground for his later writing.
His intellectual contribution is a systematic reframing of marketing and work for a permission-based, attention-scarce economy. Across his books and his daily blog, the through-line is that the old industrial defaults have inverted — broadcast doesn’t work, average is invisible, compliance no longer pays — and that the new question is whether you have something remarkable enough that people want to talk about it, and whether you have the courage to ship it.
He has written a near-daily blog since 2002, founded the altMBA leadership program in 2015, and has been inducted into both the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame and the Marketing Hall of Fame. His audience cuts across founders, creators, and managers — and his short, plain-spoken posts have become one of the longest-running independent publications in business writing.