Kalen's Podcast

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

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 successfuly TikTok channel for whiskey 30:48 TJ is working on *yet another* new and improved studio 35:45 My new mobile car podcast studio 37:53 TJ ran into a Bitcoin scammer 41:17 Inside baseball related to content and podcasting 56:40 Wrapping up

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 content studio 32:21 Multiple sources of income to be middle class or beyond 34:12 What will the future look like for our kids as the middle class is dying? 41:01 The Magento open source fork - it's not about a fork 49:39 A foundation that supports disabled writers 51:53 Magento moving up market & salaries going up

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"

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 Association have ownership of open source? 19:55 Magento developers leaving the ecosystem 23:09 Adobe Developers Live and other upcoming events 26:17 I appreciate how Eric engages with the community 28:41 Interesting PWA use cases Eric is seeing 32:53 National coffee day

.Mark Shust is a Magento teacher and course creator at M.academy.

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