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CommerceTomorrow

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COMMERCE TOMORROW is a podcast series hosted by tech entrepreneurs and ecommerce veterans Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig discussing the latest developments and technologies used at global brands and retailers that are at the forefront of growth and innovation. Listen in to interviews with recognized technology leaders and learn how technology is driving their business.

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The ABC's of SaaS Finance with commercetools CFO Dan Murphy

March 04, 2024 20:13 - 39 minutes - 91.5 MB

Step inside commercetools with Dirk and Kelly as they sit down with commercetools’ own CFO, Dan Murphy. This is an enlightening discussion around company efficiencies, key metrics to judge the health of a SaaS business, and what metrics to look for at various stages of company growth. Are your customers renewing? What does it cost to acquire a customer? Are the company goals aligned with its employees? How efficient is the sales organization? Is revenue growth the end all be all? Tune in to g...

Simplifying Commercial-side of MACH

January 18, 2024 23:33 - 38 minutes - 49.7 MB

From a technology-standpoint, MACH is fantastic. However, the commercial-side of MACH can be cumbersome. Live from MACH Haus in New York, Kelly and Piyush Patel (Chief Strategic Business Development Officer of Algolia) go deep on the various industry initiatives to simplify the commercial-side of MACH. We discuss white labeling, BPO, cloud marketplaces, what the MACH Alliance has/can do, and more. 00:35 Welcome to NRF 2024, MACH Haus 02:17 What is NRF? 03:03 How does NRF differ from Shoptal...

2023 End of Year Recap / Looking Forward to 2024

December 22, 2023 15:31 - 1 hour - 145 MB

That’s a wrap for 2023! In this jam packed episode, Dirk & Kelly discuss their recent trips, recap Black Friday / Cyber Monday, AI innovations at commercetools and across the industry, the changing competitive landscape, the economy and its impact to the tech ecosystem, when someone is going to do a PE roll-up of MACH Alliance ISV members, strategic initiatives for 2024, and upcoming conferences. 00:00:53: Where in the world is Dirk? 00:11:00: AI update 00:23:24: How’s the overall economy do...

Maia Benson, MD of Forum Ventures, on Order Management

November 24, 2023 17:21 - 31 minutes - 24.6 MB

Hosts Dirk Hoerig and Kelly Goetsch welcome Maia Benson, Managing Director of Forum Ventures. The discussion traces Maia's e-commerce and logistics journey, spotlighting her pivotal role at Shopify and the challenges of building the self-embedded shipping network. They cover the Flexport acquisition, challenges in fulfillment systems, and the industry's dynamic nature amid Gen AI impacts. Maia also leads us through funding landscape trends and the startup thresholds needed to be fundable. T...

Greg Alvo, Founder/CEO of Ordergroove on Subscriptions

November 13, 2023 16:40 - 26 minutes - 60.7 MB

Greg Alvo, Founder/CEO of Ordergroove on Subscriptions by CommerceTomorrow

Phillip Jackson & Brian Lange of Future Commerce

October 01, 2023 23:25 - 42 minutes - 54.5 MB

In this episode, Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig speak with Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange, founders of the media company, Future Commerce. Tune is as this roundtable provides cultural insight on the future of commerce. Is commerce simply technology that we adopt or is the future of commerce a bigger, more abstract idea - and, what does human nature and culture have to do with it? Additionally, we’ll get Phillip and Brian’s hot takes on AR, VR, Conversational commerce, AI and more! You can he...

Seed-stage Investing with Mu Ventures' GP, Gary Benerofe

August 24, 2023 16:26 - 31 minutes - 72.8 MB

Mu Ventures runs a $10m fund focused on seed and pre-seed rounds. In this episode, we discuss the role of venture capital(VC) in tech, key terms in the VC space, the value VC offers to startups and to end-consumers, and the mechanics of how fundraises work. We also get Mu's investment thesis, Gary's outlook on the fundraising market, and what Gary looks for when evaluating CEOs for his portfolio companies. 00:55: Personal background 03:58: What is a VC? Where do they add value? 07:50: Define ...

Tercera's Bill Petty & Michelle Swan + Orium's Jason Cottrell on SIs

August 02, 2023 18:31 - 38 minutes - 87.2 MB

Tercera is the leading growth private equity firm in the composable space, providing growth capital to systems integrators (including Orium). Think of Tercera as a VC but exclusively for growing SIs. In this episode, Bill and Michelle explain what they look for when making investments in SIs, how investment banking differs from private equity, consolidation within the SI ecosystem and more. Jason provides great context on the role that SIs play, why they took on growth equity from Tercera, an...

Dirk & Kelly Discuss the Intersection of AI + Commerce

July 25, 2023 02:31 - 40 minutes - 92.7 MB

In this episode, Kelly and Dirk go deep on everyone's new favorite topic - AI. They discuss why this moment in AI is fundamentally different than what we've seen in the past, explain the underlying technology that powers AI, discuss whether AI is actually "self-aware" (and what that means), where we are in the tech adoption hype cycle, how we at commercetools are looking at AI, how AI impacts the products we offer at commercetools, how AI impacts hiring, and how AI is already and will even fu...

Dirk & Kelly Discuss the Economy, Commerce Vendor Landscape, the Future of commercetools, and More

May 18, 2023 15:58 - 48 minutes - 112 MB

By popular demand - Dirk and Kelly are back with another 1:1 episode! As they wrap a commercetools-offsite, they talk about the overall economy, what's happening with other commerce vendors, deep dive on the recent Shopify news, recap Shoptalk and look forward to MACH TWO, recap Algolia's news, discuss the future of AI + commerce, and provide some commercetools updates. 1:14: commercetools off-site recap 9:30: MACH / composable adoption 18:53: Shoptalk US / EU recap 27:21: Macroeconomic outl...

Sebastian Hamann, CEO & Co-Founder of Shopware

April 23, 2023 22:37 - 38 minutes - 88.8 MB

What drives a teenager to build a commerce platform? While many software vendors went bankrupt at the time of the dotcom bubble burst, brothers Sebastian and Stefan Hamann built Shopware and have gone to on to thrive in a very competitive market. From early beginnings to a hundred million in funding, the importance of remembering the shopper ALWAYS, to what it’s like to work with his brother for over 20 years, Sebastian discusses it all! Timestamps: Personal intro / background | 1:17 What dr...

Darrell Rosenstein of The Rosenstein Group on Executive Recruiting

March 13, 2023 21:58 - 1 hour - 143 MB

In this episode, Kelly Goetsch speaks with Darrell Rosenstein of the Rosenstein Group. Learn from one of the first ever LinkedIn users who literally went from index cards - yes index cards - to founding the Rosenstein Group, a leader in martech-related executive search. This episode features an overview of how the executive staffing industry works, how to stand out in this hiring market, how to prevent your top employees from being poached, who makes the best CEO, and how the types of people ...

Gary Survis, Operating Partner at Insight Partners, on Marketing + Branding

March 03, 2023 14:29 - 38 minutes - 88.3 MB

In this episode, Dirk Hoerig speaks with Gary Survis, Operating Partner at Insight Partners. Gary has learned that years of experience (whether it be marketing, owning & selling companies, being a CMO, operating partner) equates to various accumulated tools to put in your toolbelt. The learning never stops - nor does the selection of tools - confidence and trust being among them. Gary explains why marketing is a science and an art, why generative AI is going to disrupt and change marketing fo...

Product Management at Scale with commercetools' CPO Mike Sharp

February 10, 2023 14:07 - 33 minutes - 76.2 MB

In this special episode, Kelly sits down with Mike Sharp to discuss all things product management. They discuss the scope of "product," Mike's view on the commerce space (having joined commercetools from telecom space), and the future of MACH

Dirk & Kelly Discuss 2023 Predictions

January 26, 2023 12:19 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MB

In the first episode of 2023, Dirk and Kelly review Kelly's 2023 predictions: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/23-predictions-2023-kelly-goetsch/. They discuss emerging competitors to commercetools, Shopify's "Components" announcement, the emerging role of DXC, AI, ChatGPT, and more.

Pipe17's Co-founder/CEO, Mo Afshar, on Order Routing

January 11, 2023 19:47 - 39 minutes - 91.1 MB

Pipe17, a new member of the MACH Alliance, is pioneering the entirely new Order Routing category, which connects and routes various back-office systems and allows for intelligent routing of order-related data, thereby replacing legacy-style Order Management Systems. With the many parallels to what's happening in the commerce platform space, it's a fascinating listen!

Microsoft's Commerce Strategy with Microsoft's GM of Retail and Consumer Goods, Sid Jatia

November 14, 2022 14:29 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB

In this episode of the CommerceTomorrow podcast, Dirk and Kelly sit down with Microsoft's GM of Retail and Consumer Goods, Sid Jatia, to talk through Microsoft's turnaround, Azure's approach to retail and consumer goods, Microsoft's various commerce offerings, Microsoft's in-store offerings for retailers, and the future of commerce, retail and consumer goods at Microsoft

Jamstack, MACH, Netlify and more with Netlify's CCO / CSO, Chris Bach

November 08, 2022 21:35 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MB

In this wide-ranging episode, Dirk and Kelly sit down with Chris to discuss the Jamstack revolution that's sweeping commerce, MACH and Chris's involvement as an executive board member, Netlify and how it differentiates itself in the market, the emerging Digital Experience Composition space, and more.

Dirk and Kelly Market Update #1

October 31, 2022 17:49 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MB

In this episode, Dirk and Kelly try a new format and discuss the economy, the MACH startup ecosystem, thew 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle and more. If you like this episode, please let us know and we'll do more of these on occasion!

Innovation in a Retail Holding Company with Saadia's Nick Kaplan

October 12, 2022 14:44 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MB

As Chief Growth & Innovation Officer of Saadia Group (New York & Co, Lord & Taylor, Fashion to Figure, etc), and the great-grandson of retail pioneer and legend Lane Bryant, Nick is a wealth of knowledge on the state of retail and technology. In this wide-ranging interview, Nick walks us through his career and the changes he's seen as well as talks through his views on current and future business and tech trends.

A Tool Manufacturer's Journey to MACH: How Tekton's CEO & CMO Built a Direct to Consumer Channel

September 15, 2022 13:57 - 29 minutes - 23.8 MB

Tekton is a family-owned hand tool company that questioned conventional assumptions in its industry by building a direct-to-consumer channel. It sees benefits in running a vertically integrated model that goes from making wrenches all the way to fulfilling orders. In this episode, Dirk and Kelly speak with brothers John (CEO) and Jeff (CMO) on why and how they built out a new channel, without hiring outside help. They went full MACH using an in-house tech team out of Grand Rapids Michigan.

AWS's David Dorf on the Evolution of POS and Beyond

September 09, 2022 02:50 - 23 minutes - 20.3 MB

Having spent time at Circuit City, 360Commerce, Oracle Retail, Infor and now AWS, David Dorf is among the preeminent experts in our domain on POS and its ongoing evolution. In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss where the POS market is heading, his work establishing retail standards through the NRF, Amazon.com and AWS, and the great work he and AWS are doing through the MACH Alliance.

Magento and the Market Through The Lens of Ecommerce Aholic, TJ Gamble

August 17, 2022 18:04 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MB

Dubbed “Ecommerce Aholic,” with a top-performing Magento YouTube channel, this episode of CommerceTomorrow welcomes Jamersan Founder and CEO, TJ Gamble! Tune in to discover the nuts and bolts of Magento through the lens of a small-town Magento native, as well as how the platform is evolving under Adobe. This episode confronts Magento-gone-MACH rumors, and the comparison between BigCommerce and Magento buyers. Listen in for exclusive Magento insights and market predictions from the “Ecommerce ...

On-Site Personalization and First Party Data Collection with Felix Schirl

August 05, 2022 22:04 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MB

On-site personalization is all about helping users have a better online experience through providing them with the right advice at the right time. In order to create a personalized experience for each user, there has to be a means of data collection. In this episode, Dirk and Kelly sit down with thought leader and CEO of trbo, Felix Schirl, to discuss all things personalization and the methods of collecting first party data in the midst of privacy legislation. Discover how data is collected, ...

eCommerce Pioneer, Analyst and Consultant Rick Watson on the Current Market and Beyond

June 30, 2022 16:25 - 40 minutes - 31.8 MB

The ever-changing eCommerce industry is fueled by immense innovation in both B2B and B2C markets. In this episode, Kelly and Dirk sit down with CEO and Founder of RMW Commerce, Rick Watson, to discuss the companies driving industry improvement, the mistakes of software vendors, the role of marketplaces, and the overall direction of commerce platforms. Make sure to check out some of Rick's favorite thought leaders on LinkedIn: Benedict Evans / https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedictevans Scott ...

Checkout.com Founder/CEO, Guillaume Pousaz, on the Future of Commerce Payments

December 19, 2021 21:12 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB

In this episode, Dirk and Kelly speak with Guillaume on how Checkout.com became a leader in payments so quickly (and a decacorn along the way), why the existing payment infrastructure is so old/inefficient and what could be done to improve it, thoughts on cryptocurrency, and the future of payments and Checkout.com's role in that landscape

Google Cloud's VP Of Retail & Consumer, Carrie Tharp

November 01, 2021 01:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MB

In this episode, Dirk and Kelly have an in-depth discussion with Carrie about her time as CDO of Neiman Marcus, the changing nature of the CDO role, how Google generally and Google Cloud more specifically approach retail and the future of commerce platforms.

A Behind The Scenes Look At HomeDepot.com With Fahim Siddiqui, SVP Of IT

October 12, 2021 22:59 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MB

Home Depot is arguably among the most digitally savvy retailers in the U.S., with unmatched omnichannel capabilities. Learn how Fahim's $100m/year budget ensures that Home Depot remains at the leading edge of tech

Evolving PIM Space With Salsify Co - Founder CMO Rob Gonzalez And EVP Of Engineering Adam Ferrari

August 31, 2021 01:57 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MB

In this episode, Dirk and Kelly chat with industry leaders Rob and Adam on Salsify, the PIM market and changes over the past decade, the challenges that organizations face when enriching product data, whether PIMs will eventually surface product APIs (or GraphQL) directly to frontends, and more

Enterprise Commerce Platform Changes With Deloitte Digital Managing Director, Gagan Mehra

July 01, 2021 00:20 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB

Deloitte Digital is one of the biggest players in digital transformations for large enterprises and Gagan, as managing director, sees it all. In this discussion, he gives his thoughts on the present/future of the commerce platform space, how enterprises are changing how they buy software, how enterprises are developing commerce competency internally, and advice for enterprises that are going through digital transformation around commerce.

Eliminating Checkout Friction With Fast's Co - Founder/COO, Allison Barr Allen

June 14, 2021 01:00 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MB

Allison and her team at Fast are out to eliminate checkout friction with their 1-click checkout solution. By eliminating passwords, they give their customers an Apple Pay-like experience across any eCommerce website or app that integrates their software. Have a listen to understand how Allison's background of scaling payments at Uber is now being applied to disrupt eCommerce checkout.

Commerce Fulfillment With Fulfillmenttools's Co-Managing Directors Linda Kuhr & Björn Dröschel

March 25, 2021 10:59 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MB

Fulfillmenttools, a cousin of commercetools, is a spinoff of REWE Digital that is taking REWE's in-house fulfillment technology to market. In this episode, we talk through the state of the fulfillment software market and how they have some unique competitive advantages by having started in the grocery space.

The State of Enterprise Commerce Search with Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes and Commerce GM Peter Curran

March 18, 2021 13:09 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MB

Description: With its $70m in revenue, search pioneer Lucidworks is a major force in the enterprise commerce search market. We sit down with CEO Will Hayes and commerce GM Peter Curran (former founder/CEO of Cirrus10, which was acquired by Lucidworks) to talk through the big innovations in search, the intersection of open source + search, and where Lucidworks is heading as a company.

#52 Roundtable Live On Clubhouse - How To Deploy Commerce To Production Every Second

February 26, 2021 19:35 - 58 minutes - 54 MB

In a first-ever for the Commerce Tomorrow podcast, we recorded a live episode on Clubhouse. We were joined by Mihaela Mazzenga (CTO of Sharper Image), Devashish Saxena (CDO of PPG Industries), Kunal Mukherjee-Chakraborty (CDO of GrandVision), Alex Shiferman (CTO of Nuts.com) and Tim Daneliuk (head of architecture of Zoro U.S.)

#51 Bold Commerce's Co - Founders Yvan Boisjoli And Jay Myers On The Future Of Commerce Platforms

February 15, 2021 03:00 - 40 minutes - 55 MB

Fresh off a $27m series B fundraise, Yvan and Jay's 400+ person Bold Commerce is augmenting traditional commerce platforms by offering solutions for checkout, subscriptions, and more. In this episode, we go deep on the future of commerce platforms, Bold Commerce's part of that future, the differences between U.S. and Canadian business climates, and more.

#50 All Things B2B Commerce With Andy Hoar

February 01, 2021 03:00 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MB

From his long tenure as Forrester's lead B2B analyst to founding the world's largest B2B conference to founding Paradigm Consulting, Andy is a top voice in the world of B2B commerce. In this episode, we talk about the consumerization of B2B commerce, brands going direct to customers, B2B marketplaces, and much more.

#49 PPG's CDO, Devashish Saxena, On PPG's Digital Transformation

December 11, 2020 00:39 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MB

PPG is a manufacturing giant with more than $16 billion in revenue. They produce paints, coatings and other specialty materials and operate in more than 70 countries. Devashish joined last year as CDO to lead their digital transformation. With more than 35 ERPs and many more systems of record, Devashish talks through the practicalities of digital transformation at scale.

ATG's CEO, Bob Burke, on the History of ATG & Commerce Platform Market of the 1990's/2000's

November 16, 2020 03:18 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB

Bob Burke took over as CEO of ATG in 2002 during the depths of the .com crash and led the company to dominate the commerce platform space, eventually leading to a successful acquisition by Oracle in 2011. In this episode, we talk about the evolution of the commerce platform market, ATG's role in driving that change, Oracle's acquisition of ATG, and Bob's role at private equity firm TCV

#47 Moovweb's Ajay Kapur (CEO) & Ishan Anand (CTO), On the Cutting Edge of Web Performance

September 23, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MB

Ajay and Ishan have been at the forefront web performance infrastructure for most of their careers. Moovweb powers nearly $10B in annual commerce and their XDN platform extends the principles of Jamstack to large, dynamic websites such as REVOLVE Fashion, Shoe Carnival, and The Tie Bar, which boast average paint times under one second. Their approach is so new and different that there isn't even a term coined for what they do. In this technical discussion, we go deep on commerce-focused edge ...

#46 Frontend Acceleration and Security With Yottaa CEO Rich Stendardo

September 08, 2020 10:59 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

From his early days at Amazon.com, to his time in senior roles at Endeca (from small company to Oracle acquisition), to now being CEO at Yottaa, Rich has seen it all. In this episode we talk about the early days of Amazon.com and Endeca, and the state of the art of frontend optimization and security

#45 Nuts.com's CTO, Alex Shiferman, On Their Commerce Transformation

August 17, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

Alex joined Nuts.com in 2018 to lead their transformation from a custom in-house platform to an all-new best-of-breed headless stack. In this episode, we discuss Alex's background and his transition from the agency-side to the brand-side, the Nuts.com business model and how they've been impacted by COVID-19, their evaluation criteria for a new stack, their migration approach, and what's next for Alex and Nuts.com

#44 Veteran Retail Architect Joel Wiegman On The Convergence Of POS And Digital Commerce

August 10, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MB

While we've used the term "omnichannel commerce" for more than a decade, true omnichannel commerce has eluded most retailers because the point of sale remains separate from the rest of digital commerce. In this episode, Joel explains why that remains, 25+ years after digital commerce was first introduced. Joel has worked for DSW, Express, and now works for Abercrombie & Fitch as a senior manager architect

#43 Serial Berlin Entrepreneur and Founder CEO Of Talon.One, Christoph Gerber

July 20, 2020 00:32 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

From founding Lieferando.de (acquired by TakeAway.com), to being an investor in many tech startups, to now founding and being CEO of Talon.One, Christoph has been at the forefront of the startup scene in Berlin. In this episode, we discuss his founding of Lieferando.de, the Berlin startup scene, the German venture capital market, and his founding/running of Talon.One. Talon.One offers promotions-as-a-service (API-based, multi-tenant, SaaS) to companies including Ticketmaster, Mercedes-Benz, C...

#43 Serial Berlin Entrepreneur And FounderCEO Of Talon.One, Christoph Gerber

July 20, 2020 00:32 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

From founding Lieferando.de (acquired by TakeAway.com), to being an investor in many tech startups, to now founding and being CEO of Talon.One, Christoph has been at the forefront of the startup scene in Berlin. In this episode, we discuss his founding of Lieferando.de, the Berlin startup scene, the German venture capital market, and his founding/running of Talon.One. Talon.One offers promotions-as-a-service (API-based, multi-tenant, SaaS) to companies including Ticketmaster, Mercedes-Benz, C...

#42 Reinventing Shopping with Amit Aggarwal, Co-founder/CTO of The Yes

July 13, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MB

The Yes, founded by Amit Aggarwal (ex Google/Microsoft, ex-Bloomreach CTO, expert in AI) and Julie Bornstein (ex-Stitch Fix COO), offers an entirely new approach to shopping with its app-first, AI-based personalized shopping experience. Using more than 500 auto-generated attributes per product, The Yes is able to help shoppers find exactly what they're looking for. It's an entirely new approach to shopping that can be quite addictive! In this episode, Dirk and Kelly talk through Amit's time a...

#41 How The World's Largest Bakery Supply Company Built Its Digital Commerce Platform From Scratch

July 06, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

In this episode, Dirk and Kelly sit down with Bob Howland (CDO) and Gireesh Sahukar (Sr Director, Digital Technology) of Dawn Foods to discuss how they built an all-new Digital Innovation Hub in Boston and built an entirely new digital commerce platform from scratch. Dawn Foods is an enormous multi-national company that sells baking supplies to bakeries, world's largest retailers and convenience store chains. Their new platform leverages microservices, APIs, and other cutting-edge technology ...

#40 State Of The ECommerce Recruiting Business With Veteran Recruiter Adam Rose

June 26, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

If you're a listener to this podcast you probably know Adam as the preeminent eCommerce recruiter in our space. He's placed thousands of technical and business folks in the eCommerce industry, from fresh college grads to C-level execs at both brands and vendors. In this podcast, we discuss the business model of recruiting, how recruiting has changed over time, what brands and vendors look for in candidates, how candidates can better stand out to potential employers, the future of resumes, and...

#39 Applying The Cutting Edge Of AR To Commerce With Threekit's CEO, Matt Gorniak.

June 18, 2020 21:30 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MB

Matt has been at the forefront of commerce in his C-level positions at BigMachines (acquired by Oracle), Steelbrick (acquired by salesforce) and Salesforce's Quote-to-Cash cloud. He also co-founded G2 Crowd. He is now CEO at Threekit, which generates product images for companies like Crate & Barrel and provides cutting edge AR for commerce, which you can see for yourself at https://quickdemo.threekit.com/product/1 (on a mobile device)

#38 REWE Digital Germany's Largest Grocer's Journey From 0 To 700+ Employees

May 11, 2020 21:23 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MB

From designing planes, to designing rockets, to being one of the founders of the Java programming language, Dr. Robert Zores has seen it all. In this episode, Dirk and Kelly talk to him about his six years at REWE Digital. REWE is Germany's 3rd largest employer, employs 400,000 people across Europe, and has annual turnover of €63 billion. In 2014 REWE established "REWE Digital" and hired Robert as CTO to provide software and services to the entire REWE group. Robert and the management team th...

#37 Next Generation Search Deep Dive With Constructor.io's Co - FounderCEO Eli Finkelshteyn

May 04, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

Eli, an expert on computational logistics and veteran of Tumblr, Shutterstock and other prominent search innovators, has co-founded Constructor.io, an AI search startup that's built an entirely new search engine from scratch. Used by Sephora, Bonobos, and others, Constructor.io is on the leading edge of search tech and discusses how search engines actually work behind the scenes, what "AI" search actually means, build vs. buy, and the shortcomings of traditional search engines like Elasticsea...

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