Kalen's Podcast

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The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.

Kalen's Podcast episodes:

November 01, 2021 #20 The Life Of An Independent Magento Extension Developer w/ Kristof Ringleff
Kristof Ringleff is the Founder of Fooman, a Magento extension development company.
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47min
October 26, 2021 #19 Rethinking Your Job Search In Tech w/ Jon Jackson
Jon Jackson is a senior lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University, a Fractional CTO, and the author of the book Rethinking Your Job Search In Tech.
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52min
October 25, 2021 #18 Distributed, Redundant Roles To Successfully Scale An Agency w/ Joel Hart
Joel Hart was the CEO and Founder of Mediotype, a creative technology firm that was recently acquired.
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48min
October 22, 2021 #17 The Archaeology Of Zero To One w/ Alessandra Scicchitano
Alessandra Sciicchitano is a lecturer at the SBS Swiss Business School, a human-centered tech advisor, and product strategist.

In this episode we talked about:

00:00 Intro & Alessandra’s background
10:20 Tech In The Loop
11:47 Obsessive focus on the end customer
17:12 Elon Musk
21:06 Mailchimp was started 20 years ago!
26:42 The origins of Airbnb using Craigslist for growth
34:19 Filtering ourselves versus presenting our whole selves to the world
42:24 The origins of Canva - a $40 billion dollar company!

LINKS:

Here is the link to the TILT newsletter:
https://www.byaures.com/tilt

Here is Alessandra's twitter account:
https://twitter.com/AlessandraEsse
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55min
October 19, 2021 #16 A Local Community Dashboard Inspired By Balaji Srinivasan w/ Mat Moody
Mat Moody is the Founder & CEO of Retention Engine, an AI-powered offboarding experience for subscription companies.

00:00 Balaji Srinivasan is the best twitter account to follow
01:08 Local city dashboard inspired by Balaji
12:35 The flows of money in & out of local communities
14:13 An idea related to amazon spending by community
18:00 Localism and supply chain risk
29:10 Mat’s subscription cancelation app for eCommerce and SaaS
37:09 Aggregating crime data for a local community dashboard

You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/matmoody
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40min
October 18, 2021 #15 The Advantages Of Being An Independent Mid-Sized Agency w/ Isaiah Bollinger
Isaiah Bollinger is the CEO of Trellis, an eCommerce Digital Agency.

In this episode we talk about:

00:00 "The Letter"
06:04 Shogun headless and other headless eCommerce options
11:04 Being 10x better to drive adoption
11:55 A new headless design tool in stealth mode
15:12 The challenge of taking money to build SaaS as an agency
16:35 The challenge of B2B merchants moving slowly
20:59 The under-supply of good developers and agencies
24:27 MeetSales.io and other B2B SaaS tech
26:35 Acquisitions and the advantage of being an independent agency
33:41 Keeping yourself motivated as an agency owner
35:48 Using OKRs across departments to drive operations
38:51 Figuring out what you want to do and focusing on it
43:27 The dream to buy up dying B2B businesses and turn them around
48:37 Free advice for B2B merchants
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50min
October 07, 2021 #14 Building A Juggernaut - Maier Bianchi
First off - APOLOGIES for my horrendous audio. We had a snag when recording that I vow will never happen again.

Maier Bianchi is the founder of Bemeir LLC, an eCommerce & web development agency.

In this episode talked about the following:

00:00 Intro
00:56 Building a juggernaut - Maier's plans for his company
03:16 Living in countryside of New Jersey
05:10 Upcoming talk at Magento Connect
06:04 Shopify meetup / art gallery opening in Brooklyn
08:20 Brooklyn 99 and TV shows
13:14 The Magento open source fork and Adobe ecosystem
20:45 The hype about the Hyva developer experience is real
28:12 The real live "sample" data Joseph Maxwell is building for demos
33:12 Cannabis industry - delivery, payments, Weedmaps, etc.
39:40 The Lincoln Douglas debates - we start talking politics, propaganda, media
45:23 Yom Kippur - unplugging from social media, spending time with kids
50:40 Outro and shout outs
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52min
October 06, 2021 #13 Diving Into The Broader Adobe Ecosystem - Rick Buczynski
Had a great chat with Rick Buczynski yesterday - it was about equal parts Magento/Adobe/Solutions Architecture and fatherhood.

Here are the timecodes for the specific topics we discussed and I'll include a link to the video in the comments:

00:00 Intro

01:05 The Magento Open Source Fork

03:15 Embracing the idea of treating Magento as a truly enterprise platform

07:26 Working with Fortune 500 and Fortune 10 clients

09:16 Digital Asset Management

13:38 Getting launched into the Adobe Experience Cloud

15:53 The emphasis on interoperability within the Adobe suite of products

21:24 The challenges of fatherhood and work life balance

30:14 Dinner in the Buczynski household and the Jordan household

43:44 Worrying about your kids growing up and becoming teenagers

49:42 The role of the solutions architect in today's solutions partner environment
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58min
October 05, 2021 #12 He's On A Mission To Debug - Joseph Maxwell
Joseph Maxwell is the Founder & CEO of SwiftOtter, a highly agile and responsive web agency. He is also the host of the Actionable Insights podcast.

In this episode we talked about the following:

00:00 Intro
00:17 Vacation in Costa Rica
03:08 Swift Otter test prep courses are the bomb
06:44 The Swift Otter slack community
11:14 The Magento community fork
19:46 Centralized vs decentralized contribution to the Magento community
23:16 Joseph's book - The Art Of Ecommerce Debugging
26:00 An upgrade to the Magento sample data set using real-world sanitized merchant data
29:23 Tips for debugging iteratively
40:46 The reading challenge
41:47 Time management and balancing priorities in an agency
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47min
October 04, 2021 #11 She Moves In Mysterious Ways - Thien-Lan Weber
Thien-Lan Weber is CMO of OneStepCheckout. In this episode we talk about:

00:00 Intro
01:28 Carpool Karaoke
03:11 She's got a lot in common with my wife
13:18 Almost a bitcoin billionaire
15:31 OneStepCheckout expansion into Shopware
22:37 Magento Open Source
28:29 A more decentralized contribution model
31:15 Making sense of Adobe's quarterly report
34:38 Code Freeze is Coming
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37min

FAQs about Kalen's Podcast:

How many episodes does Kalen's Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.