In 2014, after a particularly brutal period, I stepped aside as CEO and took a role as an individual contributor. As of this writing, I’m chairman of Moz’s board of directors and an adviser to several of our product and marketing teams. I speak at more than thirty conferences a year and spend about 25 percent of my days on the road, helping folks around the world gain a better understanding of how search engines and web-marketing channels work. I still walk to the office from the apartment I share with my wife, Geraldine, run tests that Google wishes I wouldn’t, try to be a force for
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