Kristof Ringleff is the Founder of Fooman, a Magento extension development company.

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.

Joel Hart was the CEO and Founder of Mediotype, a creative technology firm that was recently acquired.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

TJ Gamble is the Founder & CEO of Jamersan, an eCommerce development firm. 00:00 Big man in a little car 01:30 Is TJ a creative? 03:30 TJ's secret project that we're not going to talk about 04:08 Fist fights TJ and I have gotten into 09:38 The Magento open source fork 15:31 Adobe Commerce vs BigCommerce in TJ's business 19:34 Ways that BigCommerce is a fit for the mid market 22:14 Building complicated automative sites on BigCommerce 25:08 Only psychopaths have one car 25:52 TJ's wildly...

Phillip Jackson is the Senior Vice President of Commerce Solutions at Rightpoint. In this episode we talk about: 00:00 Intro 01:52 High-concept podcasts 07:07 Face swapped youtube comedy channels 09:17 Phillip apologizes for making fun of me for being 18 months late on everything 11:16 Writing and podcasting - the killer combo 20:03 Status update on the shed pod studio 20:48 Consumer behavior related to podcast advertising 28:34 Account based marketing via podcasts 28:57 The Future Commerce...

Damián Culotta is a Magento Senior Developer at Blue Acorn iCi. In this episode we talk about: 00:00 Retiring in Florida or Vegas 00:48 Living in Coronel Suarez, Argentina 02:33 The podcast that Damian started in February 05:45 The Magento open source fork 12:22 Trying to get contributions for Magento Association blog 16:21 The needs of small/medium businesses - nostalgia for Magento 1 20:27 Our mid-life crises 21:26 Magento forum moderation 26:56 That time I "met" Damian in "Madrid" 😬 29:40...

Eric Erway is the Group Product Manager for merchant and shopping experiences at Adobe Commerce. In this episode we talk about the following: 00:00 Intro 01:41 Open sourcing of Page Builder 04:57 What would you say to the Magento community rebels? 06:52 David Alger on the composer authentication issue 08:39 Having more conversations with the community 10:38 What's up with the Open Source Task Force? 12:25 Could we have a more decentralized contribution model? 15:25 Will the Magento...

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