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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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