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Popcorn is a fractional marketing agency that helps early-stage restaurant technology startups build traction and grow. We typically partner with no more than 4–5 clients at a time to ensure focused, high-impact support.

Our mission is to align brand marketing with sales outcomes. Strong brand positioning sharpens your value proposition and fuels customer demand. Popcorn’s brand archetype-driven approach builds awareness that generates leads with the kinds of customers you want.

Hi, I'm Paul. I'm a marketing strategist, messaging expert, creative director, and maybe your next hire. 

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This has been a long time coming. I started Popcorn after nearly nine years leading marketing at Crunchtime, where I helped turn a scrappy restaurant tech company into the go-to brand for back-of-house software, working with names like Jersey Mike’s and AMC Theatres. Fittingly, Crunchtime became Popcorn’s first client, and that kicked off this whole go-to-market agency journey.

Over the past two decades, I’ve shaped marketing strategies for brands big and small, at Digitas for clients like General Motors and AstraZeneca to tech players like Tweeter, Immuta, and Crunchtime. What’s made it interesting is not just the variety -- data security, restaurants, cars, consumer A/V, healthcare, but the results: launching GM’s Owner Center for millions of drivers, integrating a digital Rx sample closet on WebMD for AstraZeneca, or helping catch the attention of investment powerhouse, Battery Ventures.

Receipts? I've led campaigns that have driven over $100 million in attributed revenue.

A trained graphic designer with an MBA - part creative, part data nerd - I bring that mix to everything I do. I studied marketing at Marist College and earned my MBA from Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

These days, I’m based on Boston’s South Shore with my wife, three Gen-Z kids, and two dogs - Maverick and Rooster (we lost Goose). If you’re ever in town, let’s grab a Dunkin’ or a Sam Adams -- first round’s on me.


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Paul Molinari
Principal & Founder
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Jared Castronova
VP, Content & AI Marketing
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Audre Bogoni
VP, Technology Enablement
Popcorn's small by design — and that's the point. Paul Molinari leads the show as Principal & Founder, bringing two decades of brand strategy and a near-decade scaling brands into a playbook. Jared Castronova runs Content & AI Marketing, turning Air Cover™ into the kind of always-on storytelling that keeps your brand top of mind between sales calls. And Audre Bogoni heads up Technology Enablement, making sure the tech stack underneath your GTM motion actually works as hard as the strategy does. Three people, no bloat, every project gets the senior team. That's the Popcorn way.

Unlock your brand's full go-to-market potential.

Where to start? Your brand archetype. Once you know who you are, the rest comes naturally. 

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