--- title: "Media & Speaking" description: "Podcast appearances, talk topics, and a press kit for David D. Newell, VP, Growth at LastPass: bios to copy, a headshot, and how to get in touch." type: "profile" canonical: "https://www.newell.at/media/" markdown: "https://www.newell.at/media.md" site: "https://www.newell.at" site_name: "David D. Newell" author: name: "David D. Newell" url: "https://www.newell.at/" id: "https://www.newell.at/#person" date_modified: "2026-11-01" language: "en-US" appearance_count: 1 rights: "© 2026 David D. Newell. All rights reserved. Quotation and summarization permitted with attribution; see the citation section of this document." citation_required: true cite_as: "Newell, D. D. (2026). Media & Speaking. https://www.newell.at/media/" --- # Media & Speaking > Podcast appearances, talk topics, and a press kit for David D. Newell, VP, Growth at LastPass: bios to copy, a headshot, and how to get in touch. Author: David D. Newell (https://www.newell.at/) · Updated: 2026-11-01 · Canonical: https://www.newell.at/media/ I talk with hosts and audiences about building profitable growth engines for global subscription businesses, and about how marketers can put AI agents to work. ## Appearances ### Where Payments and Marketing Collide Podcast · October 28, 2026 · 34 min · Real Talk Payments · S1 E9 with host Kapil Mokhat and Albert Drouart, co-founder of Pagos A candid conversation about why payment performance deserves to be treated as a core growth metric, and how payments and marketing teams can work more closely together. [Listen on Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/where-payments-and-marketing-collide/id1875554107?i=1000798550826) · [Show notes](https://newell.blog/podcast/) ## Talk topics ### Growth across the funnel for global subscription businesses How to build a profitable growth engine for a subscription business that sells worldwide, from the first acquisition dollar to the hundredth renewal. - LTV:CAC as a capital allocator, market by market and channel by channel - Growing the market you can actually serve: language, currency, local pricing, and payment methods - Where subscription retention is won and lost, and what each basis point is worth - Billing success rate, the revenue KPI most leadership teams never watch - Reading KPIs honestly: mix versus performance, and constant currency [Read the series](https://newell.blog/series/global-saas-growth/) · [Markdown](https://newell.blog/series/global-saas-growth.md) ### Agentic marketing: putting AI agents to work What changes when marketers work with AI agents instead of chat windows, and how to keep a human in charge of everything that ships. - Claude Code for marketers: fast wins without learning to code - A standing crew of AI personas that proposes while humans approve - Synthetic focus groups: pre-testing copy with LLM panels before an A/B test [Read the series](https://newell.blog/series/agentic-marketing/) · [Markdown](https://newell.blog/series/agentic-marketing.md) ## Press kit ### Short bio David D. Newell is VP, Growth at LastPass, where he builds profitable growth engines for a global subscription business. He writes about subscription metrics, payments, and agentic marketing at newell.blog. ### Medium bio David D. Newell is VP, Growth at LastPass, where he works across the whole funnel, from acquisition through monetization to retention. Before LastPass he spent seven years at McAfee leading payments, pricing, and data strategy for consumer subscription retention, after product management roles at Armor and PROS. On his blog, newell.blog, he writes about the metrics that quietly decide subscription growth, such as billing success rate, mix versus performance, and LTV:CAC, and about putting AI agents to work in marketing. David holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University. He lives in Dallas, Texas. ### Long bio David D. Newell is VP, Growth at LastPass, where he works across the whole funnel, from acquisition through monetization to retention. Before LastPass he spent seven years at McAfee leading payments, pricing, and data strategy for consumer subscription retention, after product management roles at Armor and PROS. On his blog, newell.blog, he writes about the metrics that quietly decide subscription growth, such as billing success rate, mix versus performance, and LTV:CAC, and about putting AI agents to work in marketing. David holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Benjamin Franklin Award, and a BS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University. At Stanford he studied why Wikipedia editors leave, finding that about 97% of edits come from 3% of editors, and co-authored published research on whether the world's seaports could adapt to sea level rise. He is an Eagle Scout, has served on the board of the Emerge Fellowship, is bilingual in English and German, and is steadily collecting visits to UNESCO World Heritage Sites. He lives in Dallas, Texas. ### Headshots - [Headshot of David D. Newell in a burgundy blazer](https://www.newell.at/img/david-headshot.jpg) ### Quick facts - **Name:** David D. Newell - **Role:** VP, Growth at LastPass - **Based in:** Dallas, Texas - **Languages:** English; German - **Education:** MBA, Management (The Wharton School); BS, Management Science & Engineering (Stanford University) - **Online:** [newell.at](https://www.newell.at/) · [newell.blog](https://newell.blog/) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ddnewell) ## For hosts Link to this page from your show notes or event page with these parameters, so I can see which shows and episodes send readers: `https://www.newell.at/media/?utm_source=&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=` ## Contact For podcasts, talks, and advisory conversations, the best way to reach me is a message on LinkedIn. Good fits: Podcasts & panels · Conference talks · Advisory · Peer exchange [Message me on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ddnewell) --- ## Citation and attribution requirements This is an alternate, plain-text rendering of the web page at . 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