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Pressing Matters, from Big Valley Marketing, features conversations with the top influencers in B2B Technology. From Fortt Knox to Audible, the (mostly) journalists we interview on this podcast have been there for all of it – and they have thoughts on where things are going. Whether you're interested in humans, chips, cybercrime, or long-necked lutes ... welcome to Pressing Matters, presented by Big Valley Marketing.
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Signup to Generate a PitchPressing Matters, from Big Valley Marketing, features conversations with the top influencers in B2B Technology. From Fortt Knox to Audible, the (mostly) journalists we interview on this podcast have been there for all of it, and they have thoughts on where things are going. Whether you're interested in humans, chips, cybercrime, or long-necked lutes...
Pressing Matters is hosted by Big Valley Marketing. The show has published 51 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Big Valley's Story Slam Recap" (22 October 2026, 30 minutes), "4th Anniversary Episode with Jon Swartz & Emilia David" (22 September 2026, 50 minutes), and "Sharon Goldman, Founder, Ground Level AI" (18 August 2026, 49 minutes).
Pressing Matters publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 51 episodes.
Booking probability for Pressing Matters is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Pressing Matters requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Pressing Matters's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Pressing Matters are IT Services & Software Development and Marketing, Advertising & PR. Pressing Matters has a business audience.
Big Valley Marketing hosts Pressing Matters, a business podcast with 51 episodes published.
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Episode #1
For our fifth season premiere, we’ve got something a bit different. As part of San Francisco Tech Week in early October, Big Valley hosted an event called Make Me Care: The 60-Second Story Slam . It was an open mic of...
Episode #12
Welcome to our special fourth anniversary edition of Pressing Matters! If you do the math, you'll quickly realize that I interviewed CNBC's John Fortt for our debut episode two months before ChatGPT changed the...
Episode #11
Sharon Goldman may be one of the most important voices in AI journalism today, but her path there was hardly typical. She didn't even get into reporting until several years after college, and when she did, she wrote for...
Episode #9
We've had some Renaissance men and women on the show before, but I'm not sure if anyone can outdo James Maguire, the Executive Director of TechVoices. He's a composer and pianist who has recorded an album of original...
Episode #8
Chris Preimesberger is one of the deans of tech journalism, known especially for his 15-year run at E-Week, including nearly 10 as the magazine's editor-in-chief. But tech reporting is, in many ways, the second half of...
Episode #7
Gene Marks didn't set out to be an influencer. He wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and be a CPA. And he has been for more than 30 years, first at KPMG and now as President of his own business, The Marks Group...
Episode #6
Jeff Burt spent his childhood wandering the world with his Army dad and digging deep into fantasy and horror stories with his mom. They even wrote a few superhero stories together just for fun. So by the time he...
Episode #5
Sean Kinney is yet another one of our guests who had at least one parent, his mother in this case, who was a school teacher. That's clearly a theme for journalists. What's a bit new this time around is that his mom...
Episode #4
Jon may not be a philosopher, but as a writer, analyst, and podcaster, he certainly has the trust of the B2B community. Jon joins Pressing Matters to tell us about his mission to disrupt B2B tech media and analysis, his...
Episode #3
Emilia David comes from a long line of journalists. Her late mother, in fact, was a well-known and controversial Filipino political columnist. Her writing helped usher in women's reproductive rights in one of the...
Episode #2
In more than three decades covering technology, John Swartz has met a lot of people: engineers, journalists, CEOs, and he's got a story for all of them. As a student at San Jose State, he was part of a newspaper staff...
Episode #1
Back when Maribel Lopez left Forrester and became an independent analyst in 2008, she was taking a great risk. Independent analysts were not the force they are today. Social media was just getting going, blogs were...
Episode #13
We all know the internet has significantly impacted media's business model over the past three decades, and the conventional wisdom is that AI will do the same. Many believe it will replace reporters, lead to...
Episode #12
Whatever stodgy image you have in your mind of the typical finance news reporter, I guarantee it isn't Allie Garfinkle. And yet still relatively early in her career, Allie has established herself as one of the best in...
Episode #11
This week, we're highlighting another great podcast, Misadventures in Marketing , that is produced by our friends at the American Marketing Association San Francisco (AMASF). In this, the 4th episode of Misadventures in...
Episode #10
Annie Saunders has been a tech journalist for several years now, but her diverse career background, local news, commodities, food, had her questioning why we'd even invite her on this show. No need to question yourself...
Episode #9
Julie Bort has been in tech journalism long enough to have had not one, but two tenures of 13 plus years – first at Network World and then at Business Insider, now editor of VCs and startups at TechCrunch. You might be...
Episode #8
Jeremy Owens just landed a new gig as the latest editor in chief of the San Francisco Business Times. In this market, that's a minor miracle. Jeremy joined us to talk about that change, his early plans for the outlet's...
Episode #7
Are you ready for RSA 2025? Matt Kapko of CyberScoop is, and he definitely doesn't want to hear about AI, although he and I–and everyone listening to the podcast today–all know he will. In addition to AI, Matt joined us...
Episode #6
Fred Vogelstein wanted to be a Moscow bureau chief. He did manage to get to Berlin as a student in the months after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, but he still hasn't been to Moscow. Instead, Fred became one of the most...
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