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  • #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

    55 min
  • #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

    40 min
  • #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

    50 min
  • #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

    52 min
  • #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

    58 min
  • #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

    47 min
  • #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

    37 min

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