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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.
...more 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.
...more 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.
...more 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 background10:20 Tech In The Loop11:47 Obsessive focus on the end customer17:12 Elon Musk21:06 Mailchimp was started 20 years ago!26:42 The origins of Airbnb using Craigslist for growth34:19 Filtering ourselves versus presenting our whole selves to the world42:24 The origins of Canva - a $40 billion dollar company!LINKS:Here is the link to the TILT newsletter:https://www.byaures.com/tiltHere is Alessandra's twitter account:https://twitter.com/AlessandraEsse...more 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 follow01:08 Local city dashboard inspired by Balaji12:35 The flows of money in & out of local communities14:13 An idea related to amazon spending by community18:00 Localism and supply chain risk29:10 Mat’s subscription cancelation app for eCommerce and SaaS37:09 Aggregating crime data for a local community dashboardYou can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/matmoody...more 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 options11:04 Being 10x better to drive adoption11:55 A new headless design tool in stealth mode15:12 The challenge of taking money to build SaaS as an agency16:35 The challenge of B2B merchants moving slowly20:59 The under-supply of good developers and agencies24:27 MeetSales.io and other B2B SaaS tech26:35 Acquisitions and the advantage of being an independent agency33:41 Keeping yourself motivated as an agency owner35:48 Using OKRs across departments to drive operations38:51 Figuring out what you want to do and focusing on it43:27 The dream to buy up dying B2B businesses and turn them around48:37 Free advice for B2B merchants...more 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 Intro00:56 Building a juggernaut - Maier's plans for his company03:16 Living in countryside of New Jersey05:10 Upcoming talk at Magento Connect06:04 Shopify meetup / art gallery opening in Brooklyn08:20 Brooklyn 99 and TV shows13:14 The Magento open source fork and Adobe ecosystem20:45 The hype about the Hyva developer experience is real28:12 The real live "sample" data Joseph Maxwell is building for demos33:12 Cannabis industry - delivery, payments, Weedmaps, etc.39:40 The Lincoln Douglas debates - we start talking politics, propaganda, media45:23 Yom Kippur - unplugging from social media, spending time with kids50:40 Outro and shout outs...more 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 Intro01:05 The Magento Open Source Fork03:15 Embracing the idea of treating Magento as a truly enterprise platform07:26 Working with Fortune 500 and Fortune 10 clients09:16 Digital Asset Management13:38 Getting launched into the Adobe Experience Cloud15:53 The emphasis on interoperability within the Adobe suite of products21:24 The challenges of fatherhood and work life balance30:14 Dinner in the Buczynski household and the Jordan household43:44 Worrying about your kids growing up and becoming teenagers49:42 The role of the solutions architect in today's solutions partner environment...more 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 Intro00:17 Vacation in Costa Rica03:08 Swift Otter test prep courses are the bomb06:44 The Swift Otter slack community11:14 The Magento community fork19:46 Centralized vs decentralized contribution to the Magento community23:16 Joseph's book - The Art Of Ecommerce Debugging26:00 An upgrade to the Magento sample data set using real-world sanitized merchant data29:23 Tips for debugging iteratively40:46 The reading challenge41:47 Time management and balancing priorities in an agency...more 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 Intro01:28 Carpool Karaoke03:11 She's got a lot in common with my wife13:18 Almost a bitcoin billionaire15:31 OneStepCheckout expansion into Shopware22:37 Magento Open Source28:29 A more decentralized contribution model31:15 Making sense of Adobe's quarterly report34:38 Code Freeze is Coming...more
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How many episodes does Kalen's Podcast have?
The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.