01AI BRAND TRENDS
AI MADE TECHNOLOGY EASIER TO BUILD & HARDER TO CARE ABOUT.
As products become faster to launch and easier to replicate, the real competitive advantage is giving people a reason to care.
TECH BRANDING COMMENTATOR · AGENCY FOUNDER · EX PAYPAL & ADOBE
BUILDING TECH IS EASIER THAN EVER.
MAKING PEOPLE CARE IS NOT.
Jana Straiton is the founder of Renegade Agency and a straight-talking commentator on tech positioning, brand-led growth, AI trends and why strong tech products so often struggle to explain their value and win customers.
KEYNOTE, PANEL, PODCAST, OP-ED.
30+
Brands rebuilt
12+
Keynote stages, podcasts, panels
6+
Tech industries - FinTech, SaaS, AI, Engineering, EdTech, Data
GLOBAL
Point of view
Career
BUILT INSIDE
TECH GIANTS.
Before working with growing tech companies at Renegade, Jana led brand and growth at some of the most recognised names in tech. That experience is what makes the advice bankable.
- 01PayPal
Head of Marketing
Led regional marketing teams, product launches and growth programmes across Payments, Lending, P2P and international money transfers in Europe, US and Australia.
- 02Adobe
Head of Marketing
Led enterprise marketing teams across EMEA, driving pipeline growth across some of Adobe’s largest strategic accounts.
- 03Renegade Agency
Founder & CEO
Founded as a strategic branding and marketing agency helping growing tech companies sharpen their positioning, build distinctive brands and create stronger foundations for growth.
- 04FOUNDRY3
Co-founder
Co-founder of a strategic growth consultancy helping investors and portfolio companies identify and fix the fundamentals that slow start-ups down.
Points of view
LATEST TAKES.
Sharp conversations about technology, branding, scaling and what it now takes to turn a strong product into commercial growth.
02POSITIONING
WHY STRONG TECH PRODUCTS STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN THEIR VALUE
How complexity, internal language and weak positioning prevent great tech products from becoming an obvious customer choice.
03START-UP SCALING
WHAT STARTUPS SHOULD STEAL FROM BIG TECH
What growing tech companies should copy from PayPal and Adobe, and which parts of big tech they should avoid replicated at all costs.
MY POINT OF VIEW
“MOST TECH BRANDS AREN'T BRANDS. THEY ARE FEATURE LISTS WITH A LOGO.”
— Jana Straiton, Renegade Agency
KEYNOTES, PANELS, PODCASTS
APPEARANCES.
KEYNOTE - THE FINTECH FRINGE
Building a differentiated FinTech brand.
02PANEL - BARCLAYS RISE
PR vs Marketing vs Sales - How to build the bridge.
03PODCAST - VISTATALK
Rebellious branding and breaking through the noise.
04PANEL - THE FINTECH FRINGE
Storytelling sells - Why brand narrative drives growth.
Talk to me about
Topics I'll
go deep on.
Pick a thread. I'll bring frameworks, war stories from my experience at PayPal and Adobe, the Renegade client case studies, and opinions strong enough to clip.
- 01How your brand should evolve from Seed to Series D
- 02Positioning debt is the hidden tax on start-up growth
- 03What scale-ups should steal from big tech, and what they should reject
- 04How tech brands differentiate when AI makes products easier to build and copy
- 05Why international expansion is a positioning test, not a translation exercise
- 06Your next buyer may be an AI agent. Is your brand ready?
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Based
London / NYC / Berlin / Paris
Formats
Podcast · Keynote · Panel · Op-ed
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