191: B2B Values to Solve Any Marketing Challenge

When do company values matter? Just ask today's guest Peter Finter, the SVP and CMO at Couchbase: "It's when you have to make a hard decision, that's when values matter." Speaking with conviction, Peter knows what it takes to prepare a business to take on any challenge. This conviction was made clear in Couchbase's nearly seamless response to the COVID pandemic and how it took care of employees, customers, and prospects. In this week's interview, Peter shares the six unique values of the open-source cloud database company that they've brought to life in the recent months across the spectrum of their ecosystem, starting with "Be a good human always." With a commitment to personalizing marketing through things like employee talent showcases on Zoom and a free community edition of their software, Couchbase's priorities are evidence that the human, purpose-driven B2B brand will always outlast the two-dimensional, poster board one (and they'll probably see higher demand generation, faster once things start picking up again).