On Background with Accel

​Communications is increasingly foundational to how companies are built, scaled, and defended. Yet as the function’s influence has grown, the way it is understood, measured, and empowered has not kept pace.

​Next month, Accel is partnering with Aaron Zamost, former Head of Communications and Policy at Square, to convene a small group of comms, marketing, and startup executives for a closed-door discussion on the state of communications and media today — and what it takes for the function to operate as a true strategic discipline.

​The conversation will focus on how reputation is built and tested in real time, how media dynamics are shifting, and where companies have meaningfully adapted — or fallen short — as communications has moved from a support function to a leadership one.

​The evening will be anchored by two fireside conversations with:

• ​Jill Hazelbaker, Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Communications and Policy at Uber

• ​Mike Isaac, Technology Correspondent at The New York Times

​Jill and Mike sit on opposite ends of the same system, bringing rare, first-hand perspective on how trust is built, challenged, and shaped.

​This will be an invitation-only discussion designed for candor, substance, and real conversation.

​We hope you’ll join us.