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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.

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Stripping Away Platitudes for AI-Search Discovery

Code Story podcast features Marlena Sarunac, Co-Founder and Fractional CMO at The Company Advice, discussing her journey from Mastercard to entrepreneurship and her approach to AI-search discovery through storytelling and clear category definition. The episode covers how she and her co-founder built marketing playbooks at a prior company and later launched their own venture to help brands strip away platitudes and define clear messaging.

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Code Story podcast features Marlena Sarunac, Co-Founder and Fractional CMO at The Company Advice, discussing her journey from Mastercard to entrepreneurship and her approach to AI-search discovery through storytelling and clear category definition. The episode covers how she and her co-founder built marketing playbooks at a prior company and later launched their own venture to help brands strip away platitudes and define clear messaging.

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startup · marketing · ai-search · storytelling · fractional-cmo · entrepreneurship · podcast

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Marlena Sarunac (person, 0.99) · The Company Advice (organization, 0.97) · Mastercard (organization, 0.95) · Code Story (organization, 0.95) · AI-Search Discovery (concept, 0.9) · Fractional CMO (concept, 0.88) · Rhode Island (location, 0.92) · Croatia (location, 0.85) · Storytelling (concept, 0.85)

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transcript · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 24 Jul 2026