Episode 42: Startup Maven Garry Smith

Episode 42 of the Mavens Do It Better Podcast features Garry Smith, CEO, and Founder of Revealit, an interactive video platform employing AI and the power of blockchain, micro-payments, and the crowd to deliver innovative zero-interruption advertising inventory to the future of video. 

Garry and Heather caught up in person in Marina del Rey, CA. 

Listen in as Garry and Heather talk about: 

  • Working in the worlds of startups and a look into new platforms in video, marketing, and advertising. 

  • His start in technology as an Excel support technician at Microsoft Australia in Sydney. 

  • Garry’s new company Revealit, which has created a brand-new video platform that caters to their needs and delivers multiple interactive viewing experiences, like augmented reality in every frame of video. The Revealit platform is natively social and respects the viewer by delivering information, entertainment, and shopping research that is always self-directed and in context. 

  • A discussion on entrepreneurship and how starting a business needs time, care, contracts, and how free work is really never free.  

To follow Garry: LinkedIn | Revealit  

Originally working at Microsoft in software after gaining a formal education in business, Mr. Smith gained a strong and formative foundation in enterprise consulting in the Microsoft ecosystem as a gold certified partner specializing in collaboration and finance. As CEO, Garry brings a strong and formative foundation in enterprise consulting and software development from time spent in the Microsoft ecosystem as a Gold Partner. Garry has a passionate focus on software entrepreneurship and is a proven leader in leading teams from idea to successful exit, including hands-on product development and enterprise sales growth. 

Cook

Heather Cook currently serves as Principal PM Manager and Lead for Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group at Microsoft. She works on a team of community program managers whose charter is engagement, evangelism, and growth by building strategy, programs, and connections for our community members with Microsoft. Heather is a former Microsoft MVP for Microsoft 365 Apps and Services. Over the past twenty years, Heather has led marketing for Global Cloud Providers and run a software business. She owns a marketing/brand/wellness consultancy, Creative Maven, where she has produced thousands of events, campaigns, and experiences in the high-tech and entertainment industries. Heather is also the host of the Mavens Do It Better Podcast, which features interviews with extraordinary everyday experts who light a spark in our world. She lives in Marina del Rey, California. She has traveled the world extensively for pleasure and by speaking about Power Platform, Office 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Workplace Culture, Community and Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Heather is a published playwright and graduate of the University of Washington School of Drama, Seattle, WA. All links for Heather: https://linktr.ee/heddamaven