Podcasts about gmv

欢迎收听雪球出品的财经有深度，雪球，国内领先的集投资交流交易一体的综合财富管理平台，聪明的投资者都在这里。今天分享的内容叫淘宝闪购，摸着美团和京东过河，来自25号观察员。美团和京东证明可行的路，都可以走。淘宝闪购，其实有后发者的优势。京东、美团在外卖和闪购的探索，给淘宝蹚出了不少可以借鉴的路子，加之淘宝团队还是有能力，憋了这么几年，终于可以一展身手。所以日单量在短短一个月间，就从2000多万突破了4000万，按现在的趋势，5000万已经不远。值得探讨的是，美团、京东摸着石头过河后，给淘宝证明了“外卖+闪购”的业务有利可图，且过河的姿势都给了答案。一、补贴是有效的对于外卖配送业务，单量规模是核心指标。因为只有单量上来，才能优化配送效率、降低单均成本，在保持竞争力的情况下实现盈利。日单量2000万是个盈亏平衡的门槛，美团2019年突破2000万，此后一路增长到2024年的6000多万，盈利能力也持续提升。饿了么这么多年一直困在2000万左右，去年才勉强不亏钱。结果京东不讲武德，一上来先声夺人，日单量很快突破2000万，虽然靠着补贴一单要亏接近10块。判断补贴降下来后单量剩多少，现在还为时过早。但京东证明了，补贴是有效的，有了单量规模再去谈效率优化。这是淘宝学到的第一条经验。二、外卖可以给主站引流如果京东只是证明靠补贴能拉动单量，淘宝不至于大动干戈。关键是京东还证明了外卖可以给主站引流，甚至可以作为电商的营销费用，账算得过来。在一季度的业绩会上，京东管理层说：除了用户的拉新和活跃度提升，已经初步看到外卖用户的跨品类购买行为，现阶段主要在商超生活服务品类。我们要看外卖和京东现有业务的协同价值，不要单独看外卖。这是淘宝学到的第二条经验。传统电商平台其实是个流量生意，过去阿里投资控股的很多公司，主要是为了流量：电商平台的流量增长是有限的，那就必须持续从外部获取流量。饿了么之前没有和淘宝、支付宝打通，很重要的原因，也是被当做电商主业的流量来源，而不能分走电商流量。现在攻守易势，外卖反而可以给电商带来流量，这直接推动“闪购”进入了淘宝的一级入口，支付宝的一级入口也已测试。饿了么从集团的边缘业务，一跃成为香饽饽。三、闪购是电商的增量美团闪购2024年GMV在2700亿左右，虽然绝对值相比电商不大，但过去三年的复合增速在30%左右，未来三年还能做到20%以上。而电商整个行业过去三年的复合增速在7%左右，未来三年大概率会降速。关键是增速。这是淘宝要大力做闪购的重要原因。还有一点，闪购的单价比外卖高，盈利能力更强。一般闪购单价是外卖的2倍，想想你点一单外卖30-40元，拼好饭只要20多，但是闪购的日用品、电子产品单价高很多，一单100块很常见。这意味着在同样佣金率、配送成本下，闪购是更容易挣钱的。美团的即时零售去年日单量不到1000万，已经不亏钱了。京东的达达去年日单量800万左右，总共亏了10亿，单均只亏几毛钱。相比于外卖，闪购是一个增速更快、盈利能力更强的业务。这是淘宝学到的第三条经验。现在的淘宝需要一场战斗，外卖+闪购就是最好的战场。

Send us a textTikTok Shop isn't just a sales channel — it's the engine behind your entire content and performance strategy. In this breakdown, Jordan West pulls back the curtain on how 7-figure eCommerce brands are turning creator content into a full-funnel growth machine. From seeding strategies to landing page hacks, he explains how brands are winning across TikTok Shop, Amazon, DTC, YouTube, and Meta — all with one unified system.What you'll learn in this video:How to find your top-performing creators using the 80/20 seeding rule — without wasting time or inventory.How to build a scalable creator community that consistently drives $250K+ in GMV each month.When and how to use VSAs (Video Sales Agents) and co-branded landing pages to maximize conversions and track ROI.How to unify your marketing funnel so your TikTok Shop strategy also fuels Meta ads, YouTube content, and Amazon listings — leading to a 4x ROAS across channels.This is the unfiltered, actionable playbook that top brands are using to dominate TikTok Shop in 2025 and beyond.Timestamps:00:05 – Why TikTok Shop creator content powers the whole funnel02:30 – The new rules of creator-led growth04:00 – Seeding strategy: how to find your unicorn creators07:10 – When to use VSAs vs GMV Max14:10 – Creator community building with Reacher + Retainers21:00 – Why unification is your next growth edge25:00 – How to repurpose TikTok content across Amazon & D2C30:00 – The TikTok Shop landing page hackSubscribe for weekly content on TikTok Shop, UGC, and eCom scaling strategies.

欢迎收听雪球出品的财经有深度，雪球，国内领先的集投资交流交易一体的综合财富管理平台，聪明的投资者都在这里。今天分享的内容叫拼多多与5000亿美元的好市多只差一条腿，来自figolin。5月28日，拼多多发布的2025年第一季度财报，实现营收956.7亿元，同比增长10%，但净利润同比下滑47%至147.4亿元。拼多多怎么了？拼不动了？我不认为拼多多拼不动了，相反，我对拼多多的长期却非常看好！注意，我这里说的长期是指五年以上，不是明天，也不是指今年。在阐述我的理由之前，我先要简单地介绍一下，拼多多是怎么拼到今天的。2015年，创始人黄峥做出一个决定：避开竞争激烈的北上广市场，转向长期被忽略的县城市场，从卖水果起步。他巧妙地利用微信拼团的社交裂变模式，以低成本快速获取了大量用户，迅速打开了沉默且庞大的下沉市场。能快速获取大量用户的原因，当然不是因为微信的社交裂变，这个只是拼多多当时营销的手段。能获取用户的原因只有一个，使用户能够留下来，那只能是用户收到的水果真的便宜。所以，我们这里要问的是，拼多多的水果为什么能便宜？当时，像水果这种容易变质腐烂的东西，不太适合用传统的电商方式销售，因为那样效率太低了，所以这也是被当时的传统电商忽略的市场。拼多多采取的方式“农产品直供+社交拼团”，所以效率要比传统电商高很多，这里的效率高有两个原因，一个是去掉了中间商，另外一个，单位时间内，单个SKU的销售数量会比传统的电商多很多。效率高了，成本就低了。如果东西是一样的，哪个人会不喜欢低价呢？ 所以，拼多多在这个过程中，不单单是把水果卖掉了，更是圈了大量的用户。如果水果可以这么卖，其它的东西就不能也这样卖吗？顺着同样的逻辑，拼多多进入家居日用与服饰类、美妆护肤、小家电直至数码3C...直到做成现在的拼多多。因此，拼多多的性价比源于其极致的效率和极低的成本结构。从商户端来看，从做水果开始，拼多多都没有追求多而全的SKU，而是精简SKU，集中资源打造少数爆款商品。每个爆款SKU动辄达到数十万甚至百万级别的订单量，这种规模效应使商户能够大幅降低了生产和供应链成本，从而保证了在价格竞争中的优势。从平台端来看，拼多多的运营模式同样体现着极致的效率原则。拼多多团队实行扁平化管理，以精简的组织架构和高度数字化决策流程，实现了极高的人效表现。截至2024年，拼多多员工仅2.3万人左右，大约是阿里巴巴团队规模的10%，人均创收却高出同行数倍。这种“双端低成本”策略使拼多多能够以比竞争平台低10%至30%的价格持续运营，并保证了企业本身的盈利能力。所以，拼多多和淘宝具有天生的基因不同。淘宝是流量逻辑，主体是搜索，用户要自己去找商品，所以需要海量SKU来满足长尾需求，这时淘宝需通过千人千面满足每个人的个性化搜索。但也因为这个原因，每个SKU的销量没有足够高，淘宝一直倡导C2B反向定制做不起来。而拼多多是把海量流量集中到有限商品里，有了规模之后再反向定制，从而极大降低成本。就这样，拼多多一不小心，把自己做成了线上版的Costco感觉。我们知道，做零售最核心的东西就是效率。沃尔玛创始人山姆·沃尔顿有说过：“我始终认为，保持低价格和低成本，是让顾客一而再、再而三回来购物的唯一办法。”另外一个零售大王亚马逊贝索斯也有一个类似的名言：“你的利润就是我的机会。” 其实都说了是一个意思，效率是零售业非常重要的护城河。哪个人买东西不喜欢买便宜的呢？如果东西是一样的话。我相信那些在Costco买LV的那些人，一定也是有钱人。我自己也在拼多多买过几次东西，都是买那些电脑、手机呀这些产品，原因也是一样的，便宜啊。所以，拥有效率的拼多多，他过去10年的GMV增长速度远远的超过了京东和淘宝。拼多多也因为它的效率，平台自身得到了超额的回报。2024年财报显示，拼多多实现营收3938.4亿元人民币，归属于普通股股东的净利润1223.44亿元，除拼多多的2.3W员工,每个员工的创收是600W左右，这个数据甚至是腾讯的3倍，可以说相当的炸裂。那么问题的，为什么这个季度利润降了这么多呢？ 它的根本原因是什么呢？ 这是这篇文章要讨论重点。如果拼多多真的是Costco的话，利润应该是要稳定的增长。我稍微查一下Costco过去五年的利润变化情况，Costco的利润是每年持续稳定增长的。所以目前的拼多多只是长得像Costco，还不是Costco。那拼多多缺的是什么呢？我们先看一下拼多多的供给端，在结构性成本优势导向下，拼多多对商家进行简单粗暴的价格赛马竞争。中国的整个供应链本身就是供大于求，这就导致了这些商家在这个平台上面的竞争相当的惨烈，胜出的商家往往也不是那种追求质量，追求创新的商家，而是那些擅长偷工减料打擦边球的商家。这也导致了拼多多的消费端，虽然拼多多希望给顾客留下的是性价比，但我们还没有办法做到闭着眼睛买东西，因为我们买到低质或假货的可能性还很高。一句话，就是拼多多这个平台赚太多钱了，在这个过程中，商家还没有获得足够的利润，真正想做好产品有创造力的商家，还没办法在拼多多这个平台上很好的生存。如果整个生态上，只有平台赚大钱，商家不赚钱，真正好的商家没法脱颖而出，那毫无疑问这个生态是不健康的，也是没法持续的，这个就是拼多多目前存在的问题。换成大白话就是说，“在你上面的那些商家老板都半死不活了，你觉得你每年赚1000亿是可持续的吗？”所以拼多多的CEO才会在电话会议上说，过去这个季度，外部环境的变化给商家带来了新挑战。在这个关键时刻，我们发挥平台企业的社会效能和责任担当，推出了‘千亿扶持'惠商新战略，坚定护航商家穿越周期。” 他还要求公司上下力出一孔，全面投入这一新战略，优先保证用户和商家的利益，努力为商家提供更多确定性，助推产业平稳转型。这是拼多多基于长期价值，必须要补上一课！所以，我标题说的拼多多缺的一条腿，其实就是共赢生态这条腿。很多人判断，这个季度拼多多的利润下降，是因为跟目前的国补政策有关系。拼多多以第三方商家为主，缺乏自营体系，且平台上以白牌商品居多，因此在对接国补政策时处于劣势，导致在承接国家补贴政策方面相较于京东、阿里等自营平台处于劣势。为弥补这一短板，拼多多加大了对商家的补贴力度，增加了平台的营销费用，影响了短期利润表现。是的，这个判断没问题，国补政策肯定的影响了拼多多的利润。但我们要问，拼多多上面的商品为什么都是白牌？其实核心原因就是在拼多多的成长历史中，这些商家没有持续的收益，没有真正的成长起来。所以陈磊在电话会议上说：“在外部环境不确定性加剧，拼多多果断支持消费者和商家，将他们的需求放在平台之前。我们相信这些举措是投资，最终将带来更强大、更高质量的商家生态系统。从长远来看，这些努力可能会在短期甚至相当长的一段时间内对我们的盈利能力产生影响。”对他说的“甚至相当长的一段时间”。我觉得他说的是真话，因为拼多多的野蛮生长的时期结束了，现在要深耕生态建设，这个当然不是短时间可以做成的事情。如果你看过拼多多黄铮的一些演讲和分享，以及了解了拼多多的文化，应该会相信，拼多多过去出现了一些问题，都是公司发展的阶段性问题，有理由相信当拼多多会把共赢生态这条腿把它补上后，我想那时拼多多的市值一定会超过Costco，因为相对于Costco，拼多多的市场更大，中国的供应链更强。

In the latest episode of The Retail Tea Break podcast we explore how modern retail leaders are blending passion, people and purpose to drive meaningful growth. George Sullivan is the Founder and CEO of The Sole Supplier, a shopping platform and marketplace connecting sneakerheads with hard to find products. Through the use of innovative tech, engaging content and strategic partnerships, the brand drives over £50 million gross merchandise value (GMV) annually, to global brands like Nike, Adidas and ASOS. Over the past decade, George has bootstrapped the company from a bedroom blog to a UK powerhouse, driven by an amazing team of 30 at their Shoreditch hub in London!Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion on the evolving retail landscape and what it really takes to lead with heart and innovation.So grab that cup of tea, sit back and listen to the latest episode of The Retail Tea Break podcast.Key themes include:People-First Leadership: Creating supportive, ego-free team culturesAuthentic Community: Building real connections that drive loyaltyCreative Content: Human-led storytelling amplified by AI toolsAI + Human Insight: Using tech to enhance, not replace creativityRetail Trends: Shoppers want stories, transparency and valuesPassion-Led Projects: Solving real problems with purposeWhat's Next: New content, podcast relaunches and brand collabsCatch up on previous episodes on your favourite podcast platform and while you're there please hit that follow button so that you get to listen to it first every week. If you'd like to get involved in the next season of the podcast, as a guest or a sponsor please email melissa@theretailadvisor.ieA huge thank you to our sponsor, International Retail Magazine. Make sure you subscribe today! Read the latest edition here: https://irg-retail.com/international-retail-magazine/

欢迎收听雪球出品的财经有深度，雪球，国内领先的集投资交流交易一体的综合财富管理平台，聪明的投资者都在这里。今天分享的内容叫美团：短期超预期、中期看竞争、长期看监管，来自星海游心。短期超预期：财报表现强劲，核心业务韧性凸显2025年一季度，美团交出了一份超出市场预期的成绩单。财报显示，公司总营收同比增长18.1%至866亿元，净利润同比大增87.3%至101亿元，调整后净利润达109亿元，同比增长46.2%。这一表现得益于核心本地商业与新业务的双轮驱动：核心本地商业收入643亿元，经营溢利135亿元；新业务收入222亿元，经营亏损收窄17.5%至2.3亿元。1.外卖与闪购业务齐头并进外卖业务保持健康增长，用户粘性和购买频次进一步提升。美团创新推出的“品牌卫星店”模式成效显著，截至一季度已助力480多个品牌开出3000家卫星店，有效丰富了外卖供给。闪购业务更是成为亮点，非餐饮品类即时零售日单量突破1800万单，饮料零食、3C产品、家用电器等品类增长显著，累计交易用户数超5亿，其中90后年轻消费者占比达三分之二。闪购业务的快速扩张不仅带动了骑手收入增长，还通过高毛利品类优化了收入结构。2.到店酒旅业务稳健增长到店酒旅订单量同比增长超50%，年度交易用户及活跃商家数均创历史新高。升级后的“神会员”计划成为新增长动力，通过整合全生活场景权益，有效提升了用户复购率。在高星酒店领域，美团与全球品牌合作推出“酒店+X”打包产品；在下沉市场，数字化渗透加速，为低线城市用户提供了更多高性价比选择。3.新业务减亏与国际化突破新业务亏损同比收窄55%至21.8亿元，经营亏损率从26%降至9.5%。海外市场方面，Keeta在沙特表现亮眼，凭借高效配送和本地化运营赢得用户认可，并计划于近期进入巴西市场。国内新业务如B2B餐饮供应链、共享单车等持续巩固市场地位，为长期增长奠定基础。中期看竞争：京东、抖音正面交锋，阿里生态协同施压尽管短期业绩亮眼，美团中期面临的竞争压力呈现多元化特征。京东以外卖为切入点直击高频场景，抖音通过内容流量重构到店生态，阿里则依托电商与支付生态渗透即时零售，三方形成差异化博弈格局。1. 京东外卖闪电破局：高频带低频的战略博弈京东凭借“骑手五险一金+商家免佣金+百亿补贴”策略，外卖日订单量在上线75天后突破2000万单，单均补贴力度达10元。其核心逻辑是通过外卖高频场景为零售业务引流，形成“外卖亏损、零售盈利”的交叉补贴模式。尽管美团日均单量仍达6000万单，规模效应下配送成本优势显著，但京东的激进策略可能导致美团Q2核心本地商业收入增速放缓至10%以下，经营利润率环比下滑。京东的竞争本质是“零售巨头对本地生活的降维打击”，其供应链能力与美团闪购形成直接竞争。2.抖音内容渗透：重构本地生活流量入口抖音已成为美团到店业务的最大威胁。2024年其本地生活GMV达5600亿元，同比增长81%，2025年目标直指8000亿元。抖音通过短视频、直播、POI标签等内容形态，将“种草-交易-履约”链路闭环，覆盖商家超610万家，达人探店带动商家收入增长53%。在年轻用户中，抖音“先看内容再消费”的习惯已形成替代效应，其在综合类目的覆盖率已超美团，到店餐饮订单量占美团的比例从2023年的15%提升至2025年Q1的32%。尽管美团在核销后服务仍占优，但抖音通过“门店直播秒杀”等模式，正在抢夺商家的流量预算和用户心智。3.阿里生态协同：流量与供应链的双重施压阿里虽未直接以“外卖”作为主攻方向，但依托电商生态与支付入口，形成多维度渗透：即时零售：淘宝闪购日均订单量突破800万单，整合饿了么配送网络与淘宝天猫品牌资源，推出“1小时达”数码家电、服饰美妆等品类，依托8.74亿淘宝月活用户，以“低价秒杀+社交裂变”分流美团闪购用户；外卖业务：饿了么通过“超时免罚”“灵活考核”优化骑手体验，联合淘宝推出“1.4元茶饮”“19.9元星巴克”等低价套餐，2025年Q1外卖日单量回升至3500万单；到店业务：支付宝“生活号”与口碑联动，以“支付即会员”模式切入中小商家，重点拓展社区餐饮、便利店等场景，虽GMV规模仅为抖音的1/3，但依托阿里88VIP会员体系形成差异化复购。阿里的竞争逻辑是“生态协同而非单一品类突破”，其供应链优势与美团闪购形成直接对标，支付入口则威胁美团收银系统的市场份额。长期看监管：合规成本上升与行业生态重构随着中国对平台经济监管趋严，美团需在合规与发展间寻求平衡，长期增长将更多依赖政策适配能力。1.骑手权益保障持续加码监管部门对灵活就业人员社保问题高度关注。美团自2022年起试点职业伤害险，已为7个省市近700万骑手缴纳15亿元保费，并计划2025年将覆盖范围扩展至全国。2025年4月启动的养老保险试点方案已在南通、泉州落地，预计未来将逐步推广至百万骑手。此外，美团取消配送超时罚款、试点“等灯等灯奖”等举措，旨在改善骑手工作条件，降低舆论风险。合规成本方面，预计2025-2027年，骑手社保支出将使美团年均净利润减少3%-5%。2.平台收费行为规范化市场监管总局2025年5月发布的《网络交易平台收费行为合规指南（征求意见稿）》明确禁止重复收费、只收费不服务等8类不合理行为，并要求平台公示营销推广费规则。这可能压缩美团佣金和广告收入空间，尤其是到店酒旅业务的高佣金模式面临调整压力。美团已通过“十亿助力金计划”补贴商家，并承诺未来三年投入1000亿元支持行业高质量发展，以缓解监管带来的成本压力。3.反垄断与数据安全风险尽管美团在本地生活领域尚未被认定为垄断，但监管层对“二选一”、数据滥用等问题的关注持续存在。例如，抖音通过流量优势要求商家“优先在抖音开展直播团购”，可能引发对平台生态公平性的审查；美团则需在用户数据收集、骑手轨迹监控等方面加强合规，避免因数据安全问题引发处罚。海外扩张方面，Keeta在沙特等市场需遵守当地劳工法和数据主权要求，合规成本较国内更高。短期韧性与长期挑战并存1.短期超预期验证商业模式优势美团凭借规模效应、精细化运营和全场景协同，在2025年一季度实现了营收与利润的双增长。闪购业务的爆发、到店酒旅的结构性优化以及新业务减亏，均体现了其商业模式的韧性。尽管二季度面临京东、抖音、阿里的多维竞争，但市场已对悲观预期有所定价，股价回调为长期投资者提供了入场机会。2.中期竞争将重塑行业格局京东、抖音、阿里的入局使行业从“双寡头”转向“多元博弈”：京东以资本补贴冲击外卖基本盘，抖音以内容流量重构到店逻辑，阿里以生态协同渗透即时零售。美团的应对策略需更具针对性：对京东需强化配送成本优势与商家补贴效率，对抖音需加快内容化转型，对阿里需巩固中小商家数字化壁垒。竞争可能导致行业利润率短期承压，但长期来看，具备技术迭代能力和生态粘性的平台将主导市场。3.长期监管驱动行业良性发展监管政策虽增加了合规成本，但也推动行业从“规模优先”转向“质量优先”。美团通过骑手社保、商家数字化扶持等举措，正在构建更可持续的生态系统。此外，监管对数据安全和公平竞争的要求，将倒逼美团提升技术透明度和商业模式创新，为其海外扩张积累经验。例如，Keeta在沙特的本地化运营已采用“政府监管+平台自治”模式，未来可复制至其他市场。总体而言，美团在短期展现出强劲的增长动能，中期需在多元竞争中动态调整策略，长期则需在监管框架下探索“效率与公平平衡”的新范式。投资者应关注其核心业务的盈利稳定性、技术投入的转化效率以及全球化布局的进展，以把握行业变革中的结构性机会。

欢迎收听雪球出品的财经有深度，雪球，国内领先的集投资交流交易一体的综合财富管理平台，聪明的投资者都在这里。今天分享的内容叫谈谈拼多多，来自wangdizhe。2020年美股熔断那会儿，腾讯大概460港股，都憋在家里，所以打游戏，看视频的反而多了，业绩向好，股价并不便宜。亚马逊股价120美元左右，反而逆势上涨。连续上涨的，甚至不怎么跌的，都没买入的必要。在那个时候，已经注意到了拼多多，但研究不多，股价大概40美元附近。拼多多不仅年轻人在用，而且很多上岁数的人在用，因为“不用砍价”，也不用太和卖家沟通，都是爆款，性价比高，直接下单即可，能有效降低生活成本。这几年业绩增长很快，先看看2024年，营收3938.4亿元，同比增长59%，归母净利润1124.3亿元，同比增幅高达87%。拼多多东西卖的很便宜，但它2024年毛利率60.93%，净利率28.55%。全年总毛利润3938.36*60.93%=2400亿元，同比增长54%。拼多多毛利率60.93.%。显著高于阿里巴巴和京东，核心差异在于拼多多以轻资产广告为主，而阿里、京东需承担物流和仓储成本。所以拼多多是轻资产经营模式。拼多多的生意，广告业务是真挣钱的地方，因为广告业务毛利率超过80%，远高于商品销售。得有人看，有人点，流量才大啊，所以拼多多就用高性价比属性，来吸引流量。2024年广告收入占比达50.3%，这一比例远超传统电商平台。所以卖东西，就是一个引子，核心是收商家的广告费。它是一种特殊的“内容变现模式”，内容不是短视频或者文章，而是人们一次次购买商品的行为，创造了一种“行为流量盈利模式”。所以表面看是卖东西的，其实是主要靠广告挣钱，当然了，二者是联动在一起的，也需要极致的供应链控制。早在2009年初的时候，阿里的聚宝盆项目，我就注意过，其实很多年之后，拼多多学了这个项目的精髓，并利用了移动互联网的新玩法。拼多多负债率37.96%，显著低于行业平均水平，处于电商行业低位。负债率2019年时候是67.59%，那时候刚起步，花的多挣的少，慢慢的盈利起来之后，负债就降低了。总负债258.14亿美元。其中流动负债为258.14亿美元，主要由应付账款和其他流动负债构成，无短期借款非流动负债仅4.52亿美元：包括融资租赁负债等长期负债。整体看有息负债率也就是1%（大概15亿元人民币），财务费用为0，几乎无利息支出压力。现金及短期投资达547.98亿美元，是流动负债的2.12倍，流动比率为2.21，远超1的安全线同时截至2024年底，现金储备总额达3316亿元人民币，覆盖总负债126%，无流动性风险。全年经营活动现金流净额1219亿元人民币，自由现金流1213亿元，现金流对净利润的覆盖率达108%，盈利质量很高。所以，看一下净现金，也就是，净现金=货币资金+交易性金融资产-有息负债。也就是1261.94+2737.92-15=3985亿人民币。现在的总市值大概1700亿美元，汇率如果按照7.2计算，那就是12240亿人民币。减去净现金就是8255亿人民币。静态看，归母净利1124.35亿元，潜在市盈率大概7.34倍。当然了，汇率部分会有些影响，但不大。另外这么算仅仅是一个“毛估估”的数据，因为近2年以来，归母净利都在以90%的增速在增长，这还没有考虑业绩成长性。机构普遍认为拼拼多，在今年业绩增速会慢慢降下来，归母净利大概1263亿元，同比增速12.33%，所以动态看，潜在市盈率就是6.54倍。到了2027年，归母净利大概1770亿元，那样的话市盈率就是4.66倍。其实随着盈利提升，账面现金也会更多，这部分还没细算。高毛利率，高净利率，高现金度，低负债率，估值还低，这几项是牛股要素，看着挺不错的。再看看它这个钱是具体怎么挣的。一种是按照盈利模式来分。这种分法简单，就是广告和交易服务。第一大部分，在线业务服务，也就是广告业务全年收入1979.34亿元，占总营收50.3%，同比增长29%分类业务毛利率没公布，只告送公司整体毛利率60.93%。但可以大致推导一下，按照历史数据广告业务毛利率80%左右，但2024年受补贴影响可能略降至约76%，这样广告业务毛利润就是大概1979.34*76%=1504亿元。这一高毛利得益于精准推荐算法和商家生态优化，广告投放效率行业领先。商家为提升商品曝光支付广告费，拼多多则通过AI算法优化广告投放效率。2024年，品牌广告预算占比提升至40%，苹果、戴森等高客单价品牌入驻推动收入结构优化，所以现在的拼多多和早前不同了，慢慢不那么低端了。比如“百亿补贴”项目，这上面的商品通过高流量曝光吸引商家投放广告，形成 “低价引流-高曝光-广告变现”的经营闭环。第二大部分，交易服务。全年收入1959.02亿元，占总营收49.7%，同比增长108%，首次与广告收入持平。这部分业务从营收组成维度，分3块也就是国内主站佣金+多多买菜+Temu。首先，国内主站佣金，包括百亿补贴商品的佣金抽成，全年约463亿元。其次，多多买菜的社区团购业务营收约300亿元，占总营收的7.6%，已实现盈亏平衡。再看，Temu，贡献交易服务收入的主要增量，全年营收约1196亿元，占总营收30.4%。Temu通过全托管模式快速扩张，GMV达4000亿元，但因物流补贴和价差模式，货币化率低于国内主站。交易服务的毛利率也没公布，但按照历史经验，国内电商业务拼多多交易服务毛利率大概60%左右，显著高于京东，接近阿里巴巴，拼多多跨境电商Temu的毛利率约25%，低于SHEIN，特别半托管之后比全托管还会下降一些。所以综合来看，这部分整体毛利率大概为40%左右，那么整体毛利润就是1959.02*40%=784亿元。校对一下，784+1504=2288亿元，和3938.36*60.93%=2400亿元，相对接近。这部分肯定有误差，但应该也差不多。其实从挣钱模式上，交易服务也可以总结为3种挣钱模式，分别是“抽成+佣金+倒货价差”。第一就是“交易抽成”，和股票投资的佣金费类似，基本是从商家交易额中抽取0.6%-5%的佣金，其中Temu贡献超半数，所以海外业务增速很猛。第二，支付手续费，这个就是通过自有支付体系“多多钱包”收取交易手续费，覆盖约80%的订单。第三，是进销差价。在多多买菜和Temu的类自营模式下，平台采购商品后加价销售，这个业务就是利用自营平台直接买东西，挣钱，类似于“倒爷”那种模式，吃价差。看完大致的业务划分，再看看拼多多的经营特点，主要是4点，一个个看。一、高性价比：拼多多继续以“百亿减免” 为核心，通过C2M模式压缩供应链成本，商品价格较同行低20%-40%。2024年国内GMV达4万亿元，下沉市场渗透率82%，用户规模9.2亿，接近电商用户天花板。同时，平台通过“超级加倍补”等促销活动，在双十一期间订单量突破6100万单，强化性价比优势，提升心智占领黏性。二、品牌提升与品质升级：推出“新质商家扶持计划”，投入100亿元资源包，助力产业带商家转型，品牌GMV占比提升至35%。例如，广东惠东女鞋产业带通过数据赋能，单厂日出货量突破1.5万双，区域订单增长35%。此外，“百亿补贴”引入苹果、戴森等高端品牌，高客单价商品GMV占比达31%，逐步打破 “低价即低质”的认知。三、技术驱动的效率优化：全年研发投入127亿元，重点用于动态定价算法、物流中转仓模式及商家服务系统升级。例如，“异常订单预警”系统降低商家风险，“推广服务费退返” 每年为商家降本数十亿元。四、全球化扩张：Temu在2024年成为全球增长最快的跨境电商平台，GMV达540亿美元，同比增长150%，新增下载量5.5亿次，美国市场占比超45%，欧洲、拉美市场快速扩张在这四个策略中，核心还是“高性价比”。这是拼多多最突出的属性。依托C2M模式直接对接产业带，将设计到生产周期压缩至7天，孵化出1200个工厂品牌，消解传统品牌溢价，重塑“国民级供应链”。也就是它追求极致的供应链管理效率与流量的配合，并且是在轻资产模式下完成的。另外对于每个主竞品，拼多多其实都有自己的思考和应对。在国内对手主要是淘宝和京东。淘宝的特点，就是东西多，啥都有。拼多多的策略就是，第一精简sku，做的更专注，而且性价比更高，通过动态定价算法和物流优化直接降低商品价格。第二，拼供应链深度赋能，比如通过“电商西进”计划，带动西部地区订单量双位数增长，为偏远地区近亿消费者实现“全面包邮”，覆盖淘宝未充分渗透的市场。第三，在活动上与淘宝的“百亿补贴”形成对抗。第四通过“仅退款”等实用策略强化用户信任。京东的特点，就是快，东西正品。拼多多的策略，第一还是性价比高，京东都是自建的系统，所以它资产结构天生就重，费用率难以有效降低，所以京东上的东西不会很便宜，而拼多多“身轻如燕”，资产结构很轻，所以它一边卖货挣佣金，一边卖货攒流量挣广告费，所以它卖东西可以便宜的多，因为广告毛利率超高，有其他地方找补回来。第二物流本地化，在全国建设中转仓，西部配送时效提升至3-5天，与京东的“次日达”差距缩小，拼多多送货的速度在提升。第三，也在慢慢提升品质感，比如通过“新质商家”计划提升商品质量，以及吸引优质品牌入驻。在海外，对手主要是SHEIN和亚马逊。拼多多弄了一个Temu。中国企业现在到外面很能打的，因为国内更卷，当年能从淘宝眼皮底下做出来，已被视为“不可思议”。对标亚马逊，其实也啥可怕的了。海外Temu部分2024年增速很快，但亏损200多亿，如果去掉这部分业务，2024年归母净利就1300亿之上了。Temu业务的特点基本是复制国内业务。然后就是加了一个“本土化运行”。基本也是4步。第一，极致性价比。这个永远是第一刀，因为没性价比流量也会少，这样广告业务就会走弱。Temu通过全托管模式直接对接中国产业带工厂，剔除中间商环节，实现商品价格仅为亚马逊的30%-50%，例如，美国市场同类商品价格比亚马逊低20%-30%，即便叠加关税后价差仍保持10%-15%，此外Temu通过半托管模式（如欧洲本地仓）进一步降低物流成本，部分商品配送时效已逼近亚马逊FBA的4天标准。玩的就是速度差不多，但比亚马逊便宜大概三分之一。第二，社交裂变与流量裂变。借鉴拼多多的“砍一刀”模式，Temu在海外推出邀请奖励机制，在国内用微信玩，在海外换成通过Facebook、TikTok等社交平台分享链接，实现指数级传播。数据显示，Temu用户日均打开次数达6.8次，远超亚马逊的3.2次。此外，Temu在TikTok、YouTube等平台与KOL合作，通过“Try-On Haul”等互动内容吸引年轻用户。第三，供应链与物流创新打造极速响应能力，通过AI预测系统和产业带“共享产能池”，Temu在快时尚品类实现72小时极速上架，比SHEIN快30%。首单试产仅需500件，大幅降低库存风险。另外打造全球物流网络，在美国、墨西哥、欧洲建立本地仓，美国区全托管商品配送时效缩短至8天，半托管模式可实现4天交付。欧洲本地仓覆盖后，80%以上订单从本地发货，配送时效从数周缩短至几天。第四，本地化深度运营。设计市场细分策略，比如在日本推出“全免运费+ 90 天退货”，满足高服务标准。在韩国聚焦5-165元人民币商品，与KakaoPay合作本地支付强化本地供应链整合，在英国、日本、墨西哥等地开放本地卖家入驻，要求商家使用本地仓发货，例如英国消费者购买家具等大件商品最快可1天送达。2025年，Temu计划将欧洲市场份额提升至35%，降低对美国市场的依赖。SHEIN专注于快时尚，而Temu覆盖家居、电子产品、日用品等全品类，所以灭SHEIN很容易，核心对手是亚马逊，亚马逊Prime会员体系以服务取胜，temu通过全托管模式压缩成本，商品价格比亚马逊低10%-20%。例如，Temu半托管商家按7-8折供货，平台甚至补贴降价，使美国消费者能以亚马逊七折的价格购买同类商品。此外，Temu通过墨西哥仓和半寄售模式规避关税，进一步降低成本。物流时效与模式创新维度，亚马逊FBA以3-5天配送为核心竞争力，这其实比京东差远了。而Temu通过本地仓布局和半托管模式逼近其时效。同时，Temu推出Y2模式，允许商家从中国直发美国，虽然时效延长至14天，但降低了库存压力和资金周转风险。用户心智与流量获取维度，亚马逊依赖Prime会员的高忠诚度，而Temu通过巨额广告投放和社交裂变快速获客。例如Temu在美国超级碗投放广告后，下载量一度超越TikTok。此外，Temu通过高收入用户渗透打破“低价=低质”的刻板印象。对于拼多多的情况，有些了解了，那是否值得投点呢？这个因人而异了。因为每个人投资逻辑不同，仓配不同，敏感度不同，偏好也不同整体看，滚动市盈率10.81倍，分位点6.26%。阿里巴巴是18.39倍，亚马逊34.03倍，似乎还可以，而且之前聊过了，现金流充裕，基本没有有息负债，轻资产运营模式。Temu项目如果盈利，那必然估值提升。但很明显，海外业务会面对关税战的挑战，存在诸多不确定性，2025年估计也只能做到“减亏”。但即便最后不顺，直接砍掉Temu项目，靠着国内主站也能支撑起盈利端。护城河肯定不如腾讯这种，即便是国内主站，也有淘宝和京东竞争，而且抖音电商增速也很快。美股整体高估，如果未来杀跌，拼多多不会“独善其身”。而且后面如果关税战再升级，中概股有可能整体从美股退市，而拼多多也没在港股上市，所以可能面临“过渡期折价”。

**This is a one-off cross-promotional episode of our new podcast: Sharetribe Founder Stories.**This new podcast features interviews with founders building successful online marketplaces with Sharetribe. Discover how founders identified opportunities, overcame challenges, and scaled their platforms—from their first transaction to millions in GMV. Each episode dives into both the strategies that worked and the mistakes that taught valuable lessons.In this first episode, you can hear the story of Marcel Fairbairn and Gearsource.GearSource is a marketplace that helps rental companies sell professional audio and event production equipment they no longer need. Marcel Fairbairn built the company in 2002, which makes GearSource one of the oldest online marketplaces still in operation, alongside giants like eBay and Amazon.What you'll learn:How a self-funded founder built one of the oldest surviving marketplaces on the internetHow Marcel identified an “invisible inventory problem” that became an idea for a marketplace businessThe critical "aha moment" when Marcel realized his 16-year-old business was actually a marketplace, and how that changed everything in Marcel's approachWhy lowering commission rates accelerated growth and scalabilityThe painful lessons from three platform migrations before finding stability with SharetribeHow to transition from a high-touch service model to an automated marketplaceMarcel's unconventional strategy: "Be aggressive on growing revenue, conservative on growing expenses

Livestreaming e-commerce, the practice of promoting products via live online broadcasts, has played a vital role in bolstering the growth of consumption and expanding employment, serving as an important force driving China's high-quality economic development, a new report said.据报告称电商直播作为通过实时在线直播推广商品的新兴模式，在促进消费扩容、带动就业增长方面发挥着重要作用，是推动中国经济高质量发展的重要引擎。According to a report released by the research institute of the China International Electronic Commerce Center, a livestreaming room can generate more than 30 new occupations and create a large number of jobs in the upstream and downstream of industrial chains.中国国际电子商务中心研究院发布的报告指出，单个直播间可衍生出30余种新职业，并在产业链上下游创造大量就业岗位。These new professions include livestreaming hosts, video analysts, video editors and cost assessors, while new jobs related to the operation of livestreaming rooms include the selection of products, video script planning, content production and data traffic allocation.新兴职业群体包括直播主播、视频分析师、视频剪辑师及成本核算师等专业人才。围绕直播间运营，还衍生出选品策划、脚本创作、内容制作、数据流量分配等配套岗位。Based on the survey from short video platform Kuaishou, among the enterprises that have been continuously conducting livestreaming marketing, over 70 percent of new customers come from livestreaming e-commerce and the speed of product innovation after livestreaming sessions has doubled, the report noted.报告援引短视频平台快手的调研数据显示，在持续开展直播营销的企业中，超七成新增客户源自电商直播渠道，且直播后产品创新速度提升了一倍。This indicates that livestreaming e-commerce has become a significant driving force for enterprises to acquire new users and promote industrial innovation.这印证了电商直播不仅为企业开辟了用户增长新路径，更成为驱动产业创新的重要加速器。The report pointed out that by leveraging cutting-edge digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, livestreaming has offered consumers an interactive, immersive and real-time shopping experience, and an increasing number of brands are starting their own livestreaming activities on platforms to forge a stronger emotional connection with shoppers.该报告指出，借助人工智能和大数据等尖端数字技术，电商直播为消费者打造了交互式、沉浸式、即时化的购物体验。目前越来越多品牌选择在平台开展直播活动，以强化与消费者的情感纽带。"E-commerce via livestreaming has not only profoundly changed consumers' shopping habits, but also injected new impetus into the country's economic growth," said Zhai Weibin, deputy head of the China International Electronic Commerce Center.中国国际电子商务中心副主任翟伟斌（Zhai Weibin）表示：“电商直播不仅深刻改变了消费者的购物习惯，更为国家经济增长注入了新动能。”The report highlighted the significant role of livestreaming e-commerce in contributing to regional economic growth, driving industrial transformation and upgrades, supporting rural vitalization and expanding sales channels for agricultural products.报告强调，电商直播在促进区域经济增长、推动产业转型升级、助力乡村振兴、拓宽农产品销售渠道等方面发挥着重要作用。Li Yongjian, a researcher at the National Academy of Economic Strategy under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said livestreaming e-commerce can help narrow the income gap between urban and rural residents, as research shows that if the gross merchandise value or GMV of fresh food increases by 1 percent during the livestreaming sessions, the per capita disposable income of rural residents will increase by 0.03 percent.中国社会科学院国家财经战略研究院研究员李勇坚（Li Yongjian）指出，研究表明当直播场景中农产品交易额每增长1%，农村居民人均可支配收入将提升0.03%，这表明直播电商有助于缩小城乡居民收入差距。Data from market consultancy iResearch showed that the revenue of China's livestreaming e-commerce sector reached 5.8 trillion yuan ($803.3 billion) last year, with the compound annual growth rate reaching 18 percent between 2024 and 2026.艾瑞咨询数据显示，去年中国电商直播市场规模达5.8万亿元（约合8033亿美元），2024至2026年复合年增长率将保持在18%。Experts said short-video platforms are doubling down on efforts to expand their presence in livestreamed shopping, with online traffic shifting from traditional e-commerce platforms to video-sharing apps.专家分析，随着线上流量从传统电商平台向短视频平台迁移，短视频平台正加大直播购物领域的布局力度。Meanwhile, the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has become a new engine bolstering the high-quality development of the livestreaming e-commerce sector, and is reshaping the landscape of the industry given that the technology has significantly improved operational efficiency, reduced labor costs and lifted purchasing conversion rates, the report said.报告特别指出，人工智能技术的快速发展正成为助推电商直播高质量发展的新引擎。该报告称AI技术通过显著提升运营效率、降低人力成本、提高购买转化率等优势，正在重塑行业格局。The report stated that through data analysis and algorithm recommendations, AI can precisely match the goods or services that consumers are most interested in and predict their demand, providing data support for the design and production of new products.报告指出，通过数据分析和算法推荐，人工智能可以精准匹配消费者最感兴趣的商品或服务，预测消费需求，为新产品研发设计提供数据支撑。Livestreaming featuring AI-powered virtual hosts has also emerged as a new trend. Global consultancy Forrester said more business-to-consumer brands are using virtual hosts to attract digital-savvy and novelty-seeking young consumers, as they cost less than human talent and reduce risks such as celebrity scandals.人工智能虚拟主播直播已成为新兴趋势。全球知名咨询公司弗若斯特（Forrester）指出，相较于真人主播成本更低且能规避明星丑闻等风险，越来越多面向消费者的品牌开始运用虚拟主播吸引精通数字技术、热衷尝新的年轻消费群体。"Livestreaming could allow hosts to interact with customers in real time and answer their queries immediately, which will greatly improve people's shopping experiences and lure more shoppers to purchase online," said Chen Tao, an analyst with internet consultancy Analysys in Beijing.“通过直播形式，主播可与消费者实时互动并即时答疑，这将显著提升购物体验，吸引更多消费者选择在线消费。”北京互联网咨询机构易观的分析师陈涛表示。这一新兴模式正在重塑电子商务领域的用户互动方式。livestreaming e-commerce电商直播cutting-edgeadj.前沿的，最前沿的data analysis数据分析，资料分析algorithm/ˈælɡərɪðəm/n. 算法; 计算程序the per capita disposable income人均可支配收入

Join Anna in this episode of Astronomy Daily as she uncovers the latest advancements in space exploration and astronomical discoveries that are shaping our future in the cosmos. Prepare for an enlightening journey through a range of captivating stories that highlight humanity's growing presence beyond Earth.Highlights:- Revolutionary Lunar Navigation: Explore the groundbreaking Lupin navigation system developed by GMV, which aims to bring GPS-like precision to lunar exploration. This innovative technology could transform how astronauts and rovers navigate the Moon, making exploration more intuitive and efficient.- Expansion of China's Tiangong Space Station: Delve into China's ambitious plans to expand its Tiangong Space Station with new modules using the Long March 5B rocket. This expansion will enhance scientific research opportunities and international collaboration, marking a significant step in China's space endeavors.- Anniversary of the Ganon Solar Storm: Reflect on the one-year anniversary of the historic Ganon solar storm, which showcased the vulnerabilities of our technological infrastructure and the importance of early warning systems in mitigating the impacts of extreme space weather.- Rocket Lab's Innovative Cargo Transportation: Discover Rocket Lab's new contract with the US Air Force Research Laboratory, aiming to demonstrate the reusability of their Neutron rocket for rapid point-to-point cargo transportation. This mission could revolutionize logistics on Earth, delivering critical supplies within hours.- Fascinating Extended Space Missions: Learn about the remarkable stories of astronauts who faced extended missions aboard the ISS, highlighting the psychological and technical challenges of long-duration spaceflight. These experiences will inform future missions to Mars and beyond.For more cosmic updates, visit our website at astronomydaily.io. Join our community on social media by searching for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTubeMusic, TikTok, and our new Instagram account! Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.Thank you for tuning in. This is Anna signing off. Until next time, keep looking up and stay curious about the wonders of our universe.Chapters:00:00 - Welcome to Astronomy Daily01:10 - Introduction to the Lupin Lunar Navigation System05:00 - China's Tiangong Space Station expansion plans10:00 - Anniversary of the Ganon solar storm15:30 - Rocket Lab's point-to-point transportation contract20:00 - Stories of extended astronaut missions and their significance✍️ Episode ReferencesLupin Lunar Navigation System[GMV](https://www.gmv.com/)Tiangong Space Station Expansion[China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation](http://www.casc.cn/)Ganon Solar Storm[NOAA](https://www.noaa.gov/)Rocket Lab Neutron Rocket[Rocket Lab](https://www.rocketlabusa.com/)Astronomy Daily[Astronomy Daily](http://www.astronomydaily.io/)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-exciting-space-discoveries-and-news--5648921/support.

Send us a textYou're scaling on TikTok Shop... GMV looks amazing... But somehow your profits are disappearing.In this episode, Jordan breaks down why TikTok Shop sellers are quietly bleeding cash—and how to plug the holes before it's too late. We walk through the real math behind a $100 order, the creator commission trap, fulfillment pitfalls, and platform fees that sneak up on even the most seasoned operators.This isn't just about sales volume. It's about contribution margin—the number that actually keeps the lights on.If you're on TikTok Shop or planning to scale, you can't afford to miss this one.

Medikabazaar news: From a $700M valuation to financial scandal engulfing the healthtech.Learn about inflated GMV, the $33M claim by Series C investors, governance failure, and the fallout.

refurbed, the leading online marketplace for refurbished products in Ireland has surpassed €2 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) this year, marking a major milestone in advancing the circular economy both in Ireland and across Europe. Irish sales account for €100 million of this total, with over 300,000 products sold in Ireland since the company's launch. When it comes to sustainable tech purchases, Irish consumers rank among the top buyers across refurbed's eleven markets. They bought the second highest number of refurbished laptops out of eleven markets and the joint second highest number of tablets. Irish consumers are also marked the highest in terms of gifting cameras, buying twice as many cameras as a German consumer during the Christmas period. Audio devices, smartwatches and gaming consoles ranked the most popular purchases for Irish consumers, after smartphones and laptops. Speaking on the announcement, refurbed's co-founder and CEO Peter Windischhofer said: "Since refurbed's foundation, our mission has been to drive the circular economy and make sustainable consumption more accessible. Reaching €2 billion in sales is a clear sign that Europe is embracing this change, with Irish consumers buying into many different categories. "With more people prioritising the environment over e-waste and hyperconsumption, it is clear that this is not merely a trend, but a lasting priority. The planet can no longer sustain our level of production, so this momentum is extremely encouraging." refurbed's growth refurbed reached €1 billion in sales in 2023, doubling its GMV in just two years and signifying 100% total growth. refurbed has recently closed a €53 million Series C funding round, expanded its operations to now include eleven European countries and widened its offering to 25,000 products available on its marketplace. The company's growth and momentum reflect a shift toward sustainable consumption, driven by increasing consumer awareness of the negative impact of new technology production. Last year, refurbed earned B Corp certification for its commitment to social and environmental responsibility and transparency. To measure its impact, the company developed an ISO 14040/44 verified calculation model. On average, a refurbished smartphone saves 83% in CO2 emissions, 89% in virtual water, and 77% in electronic waste. Every product sold on refurbed's marketplace undergoes a rigorous refurbishment process of up to 40 steps, including data erasure and restoration to factory settings. To ensure customer confidence, each device comes with a 30-day free trial and a minimum 12-month warranty. Since its inception, refurbed has saved over 270,000 tonnes of CO2, 900 tonnes of e-waste, and 94 billion litres of water, planting more than 6.6 million trees. See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

In this episode of The Negotiation, we're joined once again by Jacob Cooke, Co-founder and CEO of WPIC Marketing + Technologies. Jacob walks us through the key insights from WPIC's latest data report profiling the fastest-growing consumer segments in China's e-commerce market. Drawing from GMV data across Tmall, JD.com, and Douyin, the report reveals a story of recovery, consumer optimism, and evolving channel strategies.Jacob kicks off with an overview of China's current consumption environment, highlighting a return of consumer confidence fueled by government stimulus, higher disposable incomes, and a willingness to spend. He then breaks down performance across platforms, noting the rapid rise of Douyin and Xiaohongshu, and explaining how brands should adapt to a more fragmented, omnichannel landscape.We then dive into category-specific insights, from the booming beauty and fashion sectors to the rise of experiential consumption, pet care premiumization, and the ongoing expansion of health and wellness products. Jacob also discusses growth in outdoor and active lifestyle categories, with impressive gains in cycling, hiking, and ski gear.Stay tuned for an insight-packed discussion that challenges the doom-and-gloom narrative and positions China as a dynamic and essential market for global brands.Discussion PointsWhy consumer confidence is rebounding in China—and what that means for international brandsPlatform performance: Tmall and JD's staying power vs. Douyin's rise in social commerceXiaohongshu's triple-digit growth trajectory and strategic role for brand discoveryBeauty and fashion trends: science-backed skincare, expressive makeup, men's groomingThe suitcase boom: post-pandemic travel + lifestyle trends = experiential consumptionWhat's fueling China's demand for fish oil, vitamin B, and dietary fiberOutdoor gear goes mainstream: cycling, skiing, hiking, and the crossover with fashionPremiumization in pet care: what's behind the $11.2B marketRising spend in the mother and baby category despite falling birth ratesKey takeaways for brands: adopt an omnichannel, data-driven strategy for growth

La basura espacial se ha convertido en una amenaza para futuras misiones al espacio. Millones de objetos de distintos tamaños orbitan alrededor de la Tierra grandes velocidades con el riesgo de colisión con satélites operativos, la propia estación espacial internacional e, incluso, astronautas que puedan encontrarse fuera del complejo. Hay proyectos para mitigar este problema y limpiar el espacio cercano. Hemos hablado con Alberto Águeda, director de vigilancia y gestión de tráfico espacial en la empresa española GMV. María González Dionis nos ha hablado del impacto ambiental de las guerras y, más concretamente, la voladura de la presa de Kakhovka en la guerra de Ucrania, que liberó una “bomba tóxica de relojería”. Hemos informado de la concesión del Premio BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento en Ciencias Básicas a Avelino Corma, John Hartwig y Helmut Schwarz por sentar las bases de los catalizadores que hacen posible una química más eficiente y sostenible; y del Premio Abel de Matemáticas para el japonés Masaki Kashiwara por sus contribuciones al análisis algebraico y la teoría de la representación, el descubrimiento de las bases cristalinas y el desarrollo de la teoría de los módulos D, una herramienta clave para entender las ecuaciones diferenciales. Álvaro Martínez del Pozo nos ha hablado de las kinesinas, unas curiosas moléculas que se mueven en el interior de las células trasladando proteínas y otros componentes de un lugar a otro. Con Javier Ablanque al mando de nuestra máquina del tiempo hemos viajado a la Rusia de finales del siglo XVII para conocer el impuesto a las barbas y la física del afeitado. Y con José Manuel Torralba hemos analizado el deterioro de las medallas de “bronce” de los Juegos Olímpicos de París, cuya causa puede ser el latón con incrustaciones de hierro de la torre Eiffel con el que se han fabricado. Escuchar audio

La basura espacial se ha convertido en una amenaza para futuras misiones al espacio. Millones de objetos de distintos tamaños orbitan alrededor de la Tierra grandes velocidades con el riesgo de colisión con satélites operativos, la propia estación espacial internacional e, incluso, astronautas que puedan encontrarse fuera del complejo. Hay proyectos para mitigar este problema y limpiar el espacio cercano. Hemos hablado con Alberto Águeda, director de vigilancia y gestión de tráfico espacial en la empresa española GMV. María González Dionis nos ha hablado del impacto ambiental de las guerras y, más concretamente, la voladura de la presa de Kakhovka en la guerra de Ucrania, que liberó una “bomba tóxica de relojería”. Hemos informado de la concesión del Premio BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento en Ciencias Básicas a Avelino Corma, John Hartwig y Helmut Schwarz por sentar las bases de los catalizadores que hacen posible una química más eficiente y sostenible; y del Premio Abel de Matemáticas para el japonés Masaki Kashiwara por sus contribuciones al análisis algebraico y la teoría de la representación, el descubrimiento de las bases cristalinas y el desarrollo de la teoría de los módulos D, una herramienta clave para entender las ecuaciones diferenciales. Álvaro Martínez del Pozo nos ha hablado de las kinesinas, unas curiosas moléculas que se mueven en el interior de las células trasladando proteínas y otros componentes de un lugar a otro. Con Javier Ablanque al mando de nuestra máquina del tiempo hemos viajado a la Rusia de finales del siglo XVII para conocer el impuesto a las barbas y la física del afeitado. Y con José Manuel Torralba hemos analizado el deterioro de las medallas de “bronce” de los Juegos Olímpicos de París, cuya causa puede ser el latón con incrustaciones de hierro de la torre Eiffel con el que se han fabricado. Escuchar audio

欢迎收听雪球出品的财经有深度，雪球，国内领先的集投资交流交易一体的综合财富管理平台，聪明的投资者都在这里。今天分享的内容叫拆解蜜雪冰城供应链：1元成本支撑起全球最大的餐饮生意，来自第三只眼看零售。截至2024年年底，蜜雪冰城门店数量达到了4.6万家，成为全球连锁餐饮中排名第一的品牌，并与其他企业拉开了差距。同期，麦当劳、星巴克的门店数量约为4.3万家和4万家。2015年，蜜雪冰城才走出了河南省。但现在其门店已经覆盖了全国从一线到县镇的各级市场，同时布局了海外11个国家及500多个城市，海外的门店数量已经达到了4800家。目前，蜜雪冰城的去年成交总额为583亿元，市值达到了千亿港元。这两个数字均已经超过了国内上市的现制饮品企业总和。而支撑这一切的则是售价2元的冰激凌和4元的柠檬水。事实上，当前环境下将东西卖得便宜，追求低价的企业并不少见。但难得的是，在维持绝对低价时，蜜雪冰城仍保证了商品品质及企业利润不低于行业平均水平。据了解，蜜雪冰城加盟商的毛利率能够达到55%，企业的毛利率与净利率分别为32%和18.7%。同时，蜜雪冰城还能够将商品即时配送到包括海外、乡镇市场在内的每一个门店。高昂的物流成本也不能被忽视。能够实现这一点的背后则是强大的供应链体系。今天来看，蜜雪冰城并不单纯是一家品牌企业，更是一家制造企业。真正掌握了研发、生产、物流等供应链的各个环节，并且通过规模效益不断压低了生产成本，最终实现了单杯饮品成本1元左右的极致性价比。可以说，过去十余年的时间蜜雪冰城将自身的供应链建设成了现制饮品行业的“水电煤”式基础设施，甚至已经不难看出可口可乐的影子。首先，我们了解一下企业基本情况蜜雪冰城成立于1997年，是一家以现制饮品销售为主的连锁企业。目前旗下有蜜雪冰城、幸运咖两大品牌。在现制饮品市场中，蜜雪冰城国内的市场份额为11.3%，在全球的市场份额则为2.2%，排名分别为第一和第四。若以出杯量计算全球排名则为第二，去年销售饮品超过90亿杯。目前，蜜雪冰城的门店覆盖了国内所有省级区域，进入的县城和乡镇分别达到了1700个和4900个。2018年开始布局海外市场，目前海外门店数量达到了4800家，涉及11个国家560个城市。其中，印尼、越南的门店总数均已经超过了1000家。其门店规模已经是全球最大。在2018年门店数量突破5000家之后，蜜雪冰城进入了快速扩张阶段，平均每年新开门店超过6000家。2020年门店数量突破了1万家，2021年突破了2万家。目前门店数量已经超过了4.6万家。与之对应的是营收规模也在迅速增加。2019年，蜜雪冰城的营收规模仅为25.55亿元，2023年的规模则已经突破了200亿元。终端门店的销售额目前已经突破500亿元。蜜雪冰城的营收主要来自向加盟商出售相关的物料和设备。近年来，这部分收入的占比达到了98%左右，其余收入则来源于加盟费用。其次，蜜雪的供应链结构蜜雪冰城的供应链涉及了上游原材料的供应，比如水果、乳制品、咖啡豆、糖、包装材料、设备等；中游食材产品生产，比如风味饮料浓浆、果酱、珍珠小料、烘焙咖啡豆等，最后再到现制饮品、冰淇淋的制作包装和销售。在整个供应体系中，目前蜜雪冰城多数原料实现了自给自足。公开资料显示，目前蜜雪冰城提供给加盟商的食材60%为自采，其中核心食材100%为自产。出于保证供应稳定的需求，2012年开始，蜜雪冰城就开始将业务向上游延伸。过去多年，先后成立了郑州宝岛、大咖国际食品、雪王农业、雪王智慧供应链、上岛智慧供应链等公司。目前，已经覆盖了农业基地、工厂、仓储物流等环节，形成了研发、采购、生产、物流的完整供应体系。具体看，在蜜雪冰城的供应体系中，雪王农业公司进行农产品的直采，大咖国际进行原材料生产加工，上岛智慧供应链、雪王智慧供应链负责仓储物流，蜜雪冰城则负责市场运营。蜜雪冰城的外部供应商主要涉及三类，分别是原材料供应、设备供应以及包装材料供应。目前的主要供应商是，佳和食品，负责植脂末、糖浆等奶茶原料；田野股份负责柠檬汁等原料果汁；宏辉果蔬负责橙子、柠檬等水果；海融科技负责奶精、奶油等；冰山冷热负责冷柜、雪融机等；东贝集团负责冰激凌、制冰机；家联科技负责纸杯、包材等；南王科技负责纸杯、包装袋等。在发展的过程中，蜜雪冰城不断在用自有的供应体系取代外部供应商，最终将自身从品牌企业打造成为制造型企业。举例来说，2020年口乐心还是蜜雪冰城前五大供应商，蜜雪冰城年采购规模达到了1.3亿元。但2022年，就已经取消了与其的合作。去年，蜜雪冰城与君乐宝合作建设“雪王牧场”，该牧场预计年产奶量达到4.2万吨。这也将为蜜雪冰城的鲜奶供应提供保证。此前，蜜雪冰城还通过自己生产糖蜜和果蜜的包装瓶将采购成本降低了50%左右。与此同时，蜜雪冰城还是行业内唯一自主研发生产、供应半自动咖啡机的企业。在这背后则是，2012年，蜜雪冰城成立了冰淇淋粉工厂，成为国内现制饮品企业中最早使用中央工厂的企业。2018年，投入8亿元打造了大咖食品产业园。目前，蜜雪冰城已经拥有了河南、海南、广西、重庆、安徽五大生产基地，年产能达到了165万吨。同时，食品生产损耗仅为0.71%，低于行业平均水平。第三，蜜雪的采购模式在采购上，蜜雪冰城最大限度发挥出了规模效益带来的优势。蜜雪冰城采购的商品主要包含食品类大宗产品、农产品以及其他辅料，采购量巨大。2023年，蜜雪冰城柠檬、奶粉、橙子的采购量分别达到了11.5万吨、5.1万吨、4.6万吨。为了保证供应的稳定和价格优势。蜜雪冰城整合了国内外供应商的供应资源。目前，已经建立了覆盖全球6大洲、38个国家的采购网络。同时，跳过了中间环节，将产业链延伸到了上游，建立了120个合作的种植基地。并且通过签订长期合作和保底收购协议，保证稳定供应。在商品采购上，蜜雪冰城则会明确规定产品的规格，预先确定了商品价格以及调整的方向。对于检查验收、配送等都有明确的要求。柠檬是蜜雪冰城需求量最大的水果，全球每卖出10杯柠檬水都有8杯来自蜜雪冰城。从采购规模来看，其规模占到了国内柠檬消费量的5%。2020年，蜜雪冰城成立了全资子公司“雪王农业”，与四川安岳和重庆潼南当地种植户签订了订单种植协议。同时还在当地成立了加工基地，就地进行分拣加工。根据柠檬水的原料需求，蜜雪冰城制定了分级标准，规定只使用克重在115克—230克，糖度≥7%，出汁率≥28%的A级果。2023年，蜜雪冰城11.5万吨的柠檬采购，多数都来自这一基地。目前，柠檬的价格较同行业低出了20%。而此前，曾因蜜雪冰城采购量过高，柠檬的价格从3元/斤涨价到了15元/斤。在柠檬之外，咖啡豆、牛奶、茶叶等原材料的采购上，蜜雪冰城同样也采取了类似的方式。并且深度参与到了种植环节。招股书显示，2023年同品质的奶粉，蜜雪冰城的采购成本较同行业低出了10%。实际上，发挥出规模优势也与蜜雪冰城的商品策略有关。与其他茶饮品牌相比，蜜雪冰城单品数量较少，推出新品的速度也较慢。国内其他茶饮品牌年均上新30款商品，而蜜雪冰城仅5款左右。在原材料的使用上，则多使用常温或冻品食材，鲜果使用较少。正因如此，保证了柠檬、橙子等品类上有极大的议价权。第四，蜜雪的仓储物流体系2014年蜜雪冰城开始自建仓储物流体系，在河南温县建立了仓储物流中心，并且对加盟商免去了物流费用。2020年之后，蜜雪冰城加大了在仓储物流上的投入。国内的仓库数量从5个拓展到了27个。目前，蜜雪冰城已经建成了能够覆盖到国内4900个乡镇的配送网络，并且能够保证90%的县级城市实现了48小时送达。其冷链也能够覆盖国内97%以上的门店。整体上看，蜜雪冰城构建了总仓－区域分仓－门店的三级物流体系。在全国范围内设置了26个自主运营的一级仓库和四十多家本土的配送服务商。通常情况下，商品会由河南工厂配送到当地仓库，再由当地的服务商负责配送至门店。这一体系极大提高了配送的效率。据了解，兰州仓投入使用后，青海物流配送的时效则从6天缩短至了4天。目前，蜜雪冰城的运输成本占成交总额的比重仅为0.9%，行业平均水平则达到了2%。而在2021年这一比例还超过了1%。在物流建设上，蜜雪冰城遵循的则是从高线到低线城市不断递进的方式。在河南之后先布局省会再布局其下沉市场。这样随着门店密度的增加，也会逐步摊平物流成本。也正是由于蜜雪冰城在下沉市场极高的密度，因此将物流成本控制在了较低范围内。在海外，蜜雪冰城则在东南亚四个国家建立了7个自营仓库，覆盖了海外超过560个城市。在物流体系中，蜜雪冰城集成了门店端的订单管理、退换货管理，上下游的订单管理，仓库库存管理、车辆、路线规划管理，发票管理、应收账款管理等，做到了商流、物流、资金流、信息流合一。可以实现全球货物以及配送关键节点的实时可视化。2024年前三季度，商品配送的完好率达到了99.99%。在海外市场，蜜雪冰城也在加快物流体系的建设。正在规划建设集生产、仓储、研发于一体的供应链中心，进而实现本地化的采购，降低成本提升物流效率。第五，蜜雪的门店管理蜜雪冰城的加盟店占比达到了99%以上。在加盟环节，蜜雪冰城搭建了完善的加盟管理体系，包括了统一的原料配送、制作流程、店面运营等。在此基础上，蜜雪冰城通过数字化工具、精细化的培训等方式，保证了门店的标准化。长期以来，蜜雪冰城都不允许加盟商从外部渠道采购任何原料，以此保证了商品口感、质量稳定。此前，蜜雪冰城成立了教育科技有限公司负责加盟商的培训业务。加盟商在新签约、续约等阶段均需经过培训，并考核合格才会允许开店。2024年前三季度，蜜雪冰城的加盟商与门店员工共有27万人参与了线下培训。而在蜜雪商学APP上，2023年蜜雪冰城提供了6700门的课程。在经营上，蜜雪冰城针对饮品制作、门店物料设备的采购等方面，均制定了标准化的操作流程。同时，组建了1500多人的团队负责为加盟商门店经营提供指导和巡查，保证产品质量、客户服务、食品安全等方面达到标准。蜜雪冰城还推出了“蜜管家”“蜜雪通”的数字化系统，简化了门店运营的流程。门店的选址、订货等环节均可以通过数字化实现。同时，总部能够实时监测到所有门店的库存情况，监测的内容甚至还包括了冰箱温度。在保证门店运营标准化的同时也降低了门店的库存与损耗压力，进而保证了门店运营状况良好。2021年到2022年前三季度，蜜雪冰城加盟商流失率分别为2.8%，2.2%，3.6%及3.1%，减去由公司终止合作的占比则为1%，1%，1.9%，2.1%。第六，蜜雪成本控制蜜雪冰城的成功与极致的性价比有直接关系，而对于供应链环节的层层把控的目的就是为了达成价格上的优势。对于蜜雪冰城而言，一杯售价4元的柠檬水能够保证加盟商有55%左右的利润，同时公司还有30%的利润。拆开来看，则是柠檬水的成本为1.2元，蜜雪冰城与供应商的利润分别为0.6元和2.2元。公开的信息显示，蜜雪冰城杯子的单个成本为0.18元，吸管为0.08元，包装袋为0.06元，柠檬与糖的单杯价格在0.9元左右。值得关注的是，蜜雪冰城加盟商的采购成本还在下降。2021年至今，蜜雪冰城的营收在GMV中的占比从45.4%下降到了41.56%。能够验证这一点的是，从2013年到2024年蜜雪冰城柠檬水的价格并未上涨，但柠檬的含量则增加了三次。与此同时，蜜雪冰城的利润率仍有所提升。2024年前三季度分别达到了32.37%和18.71%，较去年同期均提升了3个百分点左右。在规模效益带来优势的同时，蜜雪冰城在持续加大在供应链上的投入，以此来实现降本增效。2021年以来，蜜雪冰城固定资产年增速均达到了50%以上，2021年则超过了150%。2022年底蜜雪冰城的工厂面积仅有16.8万平方米，2024年前三季度已经达到了79万平方米。而目前蜜雪冰城供应链员工人数为2988人，在所有员工中的占比达到了43.6%。2023年，蜜雪冰城的研发支出同比增长了163.1%，达到了8500万元人民币。蜜雪冰城招股书显示，此次IPO募集的资金66%未来将用于供应链的建设。其中，54%用于国内，12%用于海外市场。最后，做一个总结行业普遍认为，可口可乐的成功与其遵循的3A市场原则有直接关系。具体是Available即买得到、Acceptable即买得起、Affordable即乐得买。现在来看，蜜雪冰城已经在向这一标准靠拢。从一线城市到乡镇市场都可以买得到产品。而且其门店密度极高，不少区域100-200米内都会出现多家门店，消费者随时都可以购买。同时，通过自建供应体系，蜜雪冰城将极大压低了各环节的成本，将现制饮品的价格做到与瓶装饮料同样的水平，保证了多数消费者都能够买得起。在此之外，通过“雪王”IP的打造，蜜雪冰城的品牌形象深入人心了。目前，从人均现制饮品的消费量看，中国、东南亚仍与美国、欧盟等有较大的差距，而这也为蜜雪冰城提供了更大的想象空间。而蜜雪冰城的成功则再次有力地说明了，连锁企业最为核心的竞争力是掌握强大供应链能力

Niklas Östberg is the Founder and CEO of Delivery Hero, a global juggernaut now present in over 70 countries across four continents. In Q4 2024, the company announced GMV of $49BN with $12.8BN in revenue and $750M in EBITDA. They have made an astonishing 35+ acquisitions including $2BN for Glovo. Before launching Delivery Hero, Niklas co-founded Pizza.nu, leading its expansion across Sweden, Poland, Finland, and Austria. In Today's Episode We Discuss: 04:09 How Skiing Prepared Me For Life As An Entrepreneur 10:12 Losing $200M on Gorillas Investment 17:58 Quick Commerce: Does the Business Model Work? 25:09 How to Master M&A: Lessons from 35 Acquisitions 31:45 Evaluating Acquisitions: The Glovo Example 32:39 Cohort Analysis: Lessons from $49BN in GMV 34:35 Growth Strategies: What Worked? What Did Not Work? 38:27 Competing Against Uber and Doordash 41:40 Is Cash a Weapon in the War for Food Delivery 44:29 Why Are Emerging Markets a Good Investment? 48:21 Why Are European Markets Broken? Are Regulators Killing Europe? 51:57 Quickfire Round: Insights and Reflections

Sadaf Sultan, Founder of Finprojections, and Jeremy Au analyzed the eFishery financial scandal and discuss broader issues of financial fraud in startups. They talked about why eFishery was appealing to investors and how the fraud unfolded and shared their insights into detecting fraud effectively. They explore the challenges faced during investor due diligence, overlooked warning signs, and practical suggestions for strengthening investor safeguards. 1. A promising vision: eFishery attracted investors by presenting itself as a solution for fragmented markets through vertical integration and improved efficiencies. 2. Start small, grow big: Initial minor revenue inflation escalated rapidly under pressures from ambitious fundraising goals. 3. Behind closed doors: The founders executed fraud through round-tripping transactions using shell companies to create artificial revenue. 4. Hard to detect: Auditors struggled to identify fraud due to heavy dependence on founder-provided information. 5. Overlooked red flags: Large bonuses to the finance team and sudden departures of key financial staff were early, but ignored, warning signals. 6. Strengthening investor checks: Investors need to leverage local expertise, perform forensic audits, and set up clear whistleblowing channels. 7. Recognizing red flags: Common fraud tactics include confusing GMV with revenue, overstating recurring revenue, aggressive credit offerings, and misclassifying discounts as marketing costs. Watch, listen or read the full insight at https://www.bravesea.com/blog/sadaf-sultan2 Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.bravesea.com WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VakR55X6BIElUEvkN02e TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremyau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyauz Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravesea English: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Bahasa Indonesia: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcast Chinese: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Vietnamese: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts

LISTEN:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/re-platform-replatforming-podcast/id1488091548 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25sR2mHAFdsVmrZoHMibzZAmazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/6b90a9bb-1554-4d79-849f-066f6139346b/re-platform---ecommerce-cx-and-technology-podcastFOLLOW US:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inside-commerce/ ABOUT THIS EPISODE:In this episode of the Inside Commerce podcast, Paul Rogers speaks with David Franks, co-founder of Zelph, a SaaS platform designed to help brands and retailers expand their product catalogues without holding inventory.Zelph's tech is proven at scale, having been built originally to power Kick Game's ecommerce marketplace, processing £50m+ GMV annually.David shares insights into the challenges faced while scaling Kick Game, the demand for inventory solutions, and the technical complexities involved in building Zelph. The conversation also explores market trends, misconceptions about drop shipping, and the seamless integration of Zelph with Shopify, emphasising the importance of inventory management and strategic pricing for profitability.Paul and David also discuss the current ecommerce landscape, focusing on the integration capabilities of Zelph with platforms beyond Shopify, the dominance of Shopify in the market, the potential of circular marketplaces, and the future vision for Zelph, including AI-driven innovations and market strategies.Key takeaways:Inventory risk is a significant concern for many retailers.Standardising supplier data is a complex challenge.Marketplaces are evolving into ecosystem builders.Margins can be profitable with strategic pricing and negotiation.Inventory management is automated to ensure accuracy.Zelph will extend to other platform integrations, with Magento a focusCircular marketplaces are gaining traction, but brands need to offer incentives.The resale market is growing, especially among younger consumers.Brands must be intentional in their approach to resale to avoid low volume.Zelph aims to redefine how brands and retailers scale their offerings.AI will play a crucial role in supplier matching and catalogue management.

Javier Garzás es Doctor (Ph.D) en Informática, con unpostdoctorado en la Universidad Carnegie Mellon,EE.UU. Es pionero en management, planificación,estimación, product management, Agilidad y en laaplicación de la inteligencia artificial generativa a lagestión de la creación de productos y serviciostecnológicos. Fue el único español en la primeraconferencia Ágil de la historia.Durante más de 20 años, Javier ha trabajadoformando y asesorando a más de 200 empresas detodos los tamaños y sectores, desde startups hastagrandes compañías como Inditex, BBVA, GMV, BancoSantander, Telefónica y Vodafone, ayudándolas atransformar sus procesos, ayudando a salir del "LadoOscuro" de la gestión y saber gestionar en tiemposactuales.Ha formado a más de 10.000 alumnos y creó el primerMOOC (Curso Masivo Abierto en Línea) de Agilidad enespañol, en la plataforma de Telefónica y BancoSantander, con más de 40.000 estudiantes. Compartegenerosamente su conocimiento, con más de 2.500posts en su blog, cientos de videos en YouTube, y másde 200 papers en revistas científicas indexadas.Autor de cinco libros sobre agilidad, es un keynotereconocido en conferencias internacionales.Además, ha recibido numerosos premios, como elSapiens del Colegio de Ingenieros en Informática, elpremio extraordinario de su carrera en IngenieríaInformática, y el Cum Laude por unanimidad en sudoctorado.La influencia de Javier Garzás en la comunidad ágil esprofunda, dejando una huella significativa enorganizaciones y personas que han aprendido de suámplia experiencia.

Was sind die Herausforderungen und Chancen in der Raumfahrtindustrie? Das beantwortet Mattia Moscardino, CEO Germany bei GMV. Er spricht über die Rolle von GMV im Bodensegment der Raumfahrt, das europäische Navigationssystem Galileo und die Rosetta-Mission. Zudem gibt er Einblicke in die Bedeutung von Kommunikation und zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen in der Führung und erklärt, wie diese Faktoren zum Erfolg in der Raumfahrtindustrie führen. Moscardino teilt seine Erfahrungen und Ansichten zur Unternehmenskultur bei GMV und diskutiert, welche Mentalität junge Mitarbeiter benötigen, um mehr Verantwortung zu übernehmen und erfolgreich zu sein. Darüber hinaus beantwortet er folgende spannende Fragen in dieser Episode: - Was genau macht die GMV GmbH? - Was ist ein Pendant zu Elon Musks Projekt Starlink? - Wie ist die Unternehmenskultur bei GMV? Erfahren Sie hier mehr über die neuesten Entwicklungen in der Raumfahrtindustrie und erhalten Sie Tipps für Berufsanfänger! Themen: - C-Level - Raumfahrtindustrie - Karriere ---- Über Atreus – A Heidrick & Struggles Company Atreus garantiert die perfekte Interim-Ressource (m/w/d) für Missionen, die nur eine einzige Option erlauben: nachhaltigen Erfolg! Unser globales Netzwerk aus erfahrenen Managern auf Zeit zählt weltweit zu den besten. In engem Schulterschluss mit den Atreus Direktoren setzen unsere Interim Manager vor Ort Kräfte frei, die Ihr Unternehmen zukunftssicher auf das nächste Level katapultieren. ▶️ Besuchen Sie unsere Website: https://www.atreus.de/ ▶️ Interim Management: https://www.atreus.de/kompetenzen/service/interim-management/ ▶️ Für Interim Manager: https://www.atreus.de/interim-manager/ ▶️ Profil von Mattia Moscardino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattia-moscardino/ ▶️ Profil von Franz Kubbillum: https://www.atreus.de/team/franz-kubbillum/

La Cultura Ágil – Javier Garzás¿Qué tiene que ver la cultura ágil con los súper héroes? Nuestro invitado a este episodio, Javier Garzás no solo es experto en agilidad, sino que es un fanático de Marvel y otros mundos. En este episodio habla de cultura ágil y comparte una bonita lección del Capitán América.La cultura ágil, la comunicación y los súperhéroesTe darás cuenta en este episodio que la cultura ágil tiene todo que ver con comunicación: se apalanca en ella para lograr resultados que mejoran día a día y supera obstáculos.Podríamos relacionar los conceptos para decir que los súper héroes entienden la cultura ágil.Algo forzado ¿no? Lo que pasa es que nuestro invitado Javier Garzás presentó una lección tan bonita del Capitán América, que me dio pie para escribir este artículo asociando cultura ágil y súper héroes. Aquí vaLos superhéroes han sido por mucho tiempo fuente de inspiración en la cultura popular. Y no solo por sus habilidades sobrehumanas, sino también por las cualidades y valores que encarnan. Estas características pueden ofrecer lecciones valiosas al mundo empresarial, especialmente en la agilidad. Por ejemplo: Resiliencia ante la adversidadLos superhéroes enfrentan constantemente desafíos y adversidades que ponen a prueba su determinación. Esta resiliencia es un rasgo de la cultura ágil, donde las empresas deben adaptarse rápidamente a cambios en el mercado, crisis económicas o innovaciones tecnológicas. Esto permite a las organizaciones sobrevivir y prosperar en entornos dinámicos.Adaptabilidad y aprendizaje continuoPersonajes como Spider-Man o Iron Man demuestran una notable capacidad para adaptarse a nuevas situaciones y aprender de sus experiencias. En el contexto empresarial, la adaptabilidad es clave para responder a las demandas cambiantes del mercado. Fomentar una cultura ágil de aprendizaje continuo y flexibilidad permite a las empresas ajustar sus estrategias y operaciones, manteniéndose competitivas y relevantes.Trabajo en equipo y colaboraciónEquipos como los Vengadores o la Liga de la Justicia ejemplifican cómo la colaboración y el trabajo en equipo pueden superar desafíos formidables. Con la cultura ágil se promueve la colaboración interdisciplinaria. El trabajo en equipo puede conducir a soluciones más innovadoras y eficaces. La diversidad de habilidades y perspectivas dentro de un equipo fortalece la capacidad de la organización para adaptarse y responder rápidamente a nuevas oportunidades o amenazas.Innovación y creatividadTony Stark (Iron Man) es conocido por su ingenio y capacidad para desarrollar soluciones tecnológicas avanzadas. La innovación constante es un componente crucial de la agilidad empresarial. La cultura ágil promueve la creatividad y la experimentación, lo que permite a las empresas mejorar constantemente sus productos y servicios.Un experto nos habla sobre la cultura ágilNuestro invitado a este episodio es Javier Garzás. El es Doctor (Ph.D) en Informática, con un postdoctorado en la Universidad Carnegie Mellon, EE.UU. Es pionero en management, planificación, estimación, product management, Agilidad y en la aplicación de la inteligencia artificial generativa a la gestión de la creación de productos y servicios tecnológicos. Fue el único español en la primera conferencia Ágil de la historia.Durante más de 20 años, Javier ha trabajado formando y asesorando a más de 200 empresas de todos los tamaños y sectores, desde startups hasta grandes compañías como Inditex, BBVA, GMV, Banco Santander, Telefónica y Vodafone, ayudándolas a transformar sus procesos, ayudando a salir del "Lado Oscuro" de la gestión y saber gestionar en tiemposactuales.Ha formado a más de 10.000 alumnos y creó el primer MOOC (Curso Masivo Abierto en Línea) de Agilidad en español, en la plataforma de Telefónica y Banco Santander, con más de 40.000 estudiantes. Comparte generosamente su conocimiento, con más de 2.500 posts en su blog, cientos de videos en YouTube, y más de 200 papers en revistas científicas indexadas.Autor de cinco libros sobre agilidad, es un keynote reconocido en conferencias internacionales. La Cultura Ágil, Javier Garzás, Agilidad, Producto Mínimo Viable, Capitán América, podcast, Podcast Corporativo, Comunicación Organizacional, Recursos Humanos, Desarrollo Profesional, Desarrollo Personal, Comunicación Efectiva, Santiago Ríos, Mil PalabrasRecuerda por favor escucharnos y suscribirte en la plataforma que más te guste:https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/mil-palabras/id1472769024 https://open.spotify.com/show/4ntUNh1i9rPue1MkeuEYLs http://bit.ly/googleMPhttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mil-palabras--4898895https://www.deezer.com/mx/show/1872052Para participar, escríbeme tus comentarios a santiagorios@milpalabras.com.coRecursos recomendados en este PodcastEste episodio complementa perfectamente el concepto de tele trabajo (fue publicado en pandemia) https://www.milpalabras.com/034-como-aprovechar-el-teletrabajo/LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgarzas/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/javiergarzas/https://www.instagram.com/javiergarzas/Sitio Web: https://www.javiergarzas.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4HbKRiPZ6m3ZlmvRiXwlIz?si=6319926eb3204bfeSuscríbete al http://www.milpalabras.com enhttp://www.milpalabras.comDescarga GRATIS el ebook “Cómo Crear un Podcast Corporativo”https://milpalabras.com.co/Otros podcasts recomendados de nuestra redhttps://open.spotify.com/show/77wLRAuRqZMuIiPcaBNHsJLas voces de los líderes que hacen posible la evolución y la transformación digital. Casos de éxito, innovación, nuevos modelos de negocio y soluciones tecnológicas prácticas para crecer las empresas.https://open.spotify.com/show/77wLRAuRqZMuIiPcaBNHsJhttps://milpalabras.com.co/podcast/historias-que-nutren/Conversaciones con profesionales que tienen algo para nutrir tu vida en lo personal, lo profesional, lo espiritual y lo físico.http://bit.ly/historiasquenutrenhttps://open.spotify.com/show/0ILLNacYnuNnkgcELVARu6?si=7d7e070863104550Entrevistas e historias divertidas y personales con Gente que ama la música y sabe de música. (suenan canciones completas al lado de las historias).http://spoti.fi/3hWr020Conviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mil-palabras--4898895/support.

Erik Torenberg interviews Harley Finkelstein, president of Shopify, discussing tariffs, political shifts, Shopify's earnings, and the evolution of entrepreneurship. —

Send us a textTikTok shop demands a unique strategy combining creators, viral content, and paid ads. Start by partnering with creators as your sales team, not influencers, and build strong relationships. Avoid mass outreach; focus on meaningful connections with 50 to 100 creators who resonate with your brand. In this episode, Jordan West gets into the challenges faced by many brands on TikTok shop and the strategies to turn setbacks into success. With firsthand experience from his agency, Social Commerce Club, which achieved rapid growth on TikTok shop, Jordan reveals the 3 biggest mistakes brands are making: treating TikTok shop like a marketplace, poor outreach to creators, and focusing on overly polished content.Listen and learn in this episode!Key takeaways from this episode:TikTok Shop as a Unique Channel:Treat TikTok Shop as a performance marketing channel needing a strategy that integrates creators, viral content, and paid ads, unlike Amazon-style marketplaces.Creators as Salespeople:Creators should be seen as salespeople, not just influencers. Building long-term relationships and incentivizing them is crucial.Targeted Creator Outreach:Focus on a small number of aligned creators, ensure ad spend behind their content, and build meaningful partnerships to enhance visibility and engagement.Embracing Authentic Content:Prioritize genuine, amateur-style videos over polished content. Trust creators to represent the brand authentically for better platform performance.Avoiding Common Mistakes:Key errors include treating TikTok Shop like a marketplace, poor creator outreach, and an overemphasis on perfect-looking content.Growth Plan: www.upgrowthcommerce.com/grow

Jeremy Au and Gita Sjahrir discussed three key themes during their conversation: 1. Apple's $1 Billion Investment in Indonesia and Local Content Policies: Indonesia's regulation requiring local components in imported products initially banned iPhone 16 sales, sparking public frustration. The government negotiated with Apple, escalating from a $10 million offer to a $1 billion investment. Gita highlighted President Prabowo Subianto's role in global diplomacy, marking a shift from Indonesia's traditionally insular policies. They also explored the broader context of deglobalization, where nations prioritize domestic production, and discussed how similar strategies could be applied in other markets like Vietnam. 2. Traveloka and the Middle-Class Economy: Traveloka, founded in 2012 by Ferry Unardi, Derianto Kusuma, and Albert Zhang, represents a scalable digital-first platform in Indonesia. Despite this potential, economic insecurity among the middle class limits its growth. Indonesia's GDP grew 5% in 2023, but discretionary spending remains low due to middle-class vulnerability. Traveloka also faces competition from Agoda, part of Booking Holdings, and new entrants from China. Jeremy and Gita stressed that stabilizing the middle class is crucial not just for Traveloka but for consumer-driven industries across the region. 3. Cultural Barriers and Financial Literacy in Startups: Gita discussed how Indonesia's “shame culture” prevents founders from addressing their weaknesses, particularly in financial literacy. She noted that one in three founders struggles with basics like distinguishing GMV, revenue, and contribution margins, which often leads to poor decision-making. Jeremy and Gita emphasized the importance of personal growth to overcome these challenges, encouraging founders to “do it scared” and take action despite fear. Jeremy and Gita also discussed the challenges of navigating the “messy middle” in startups, often spanning over a decade; lessons from the 2014–2015 tech boom, which highlighted the risks of overfunding and rapid scaling; the transition from physical to digital industries, with Indonesia's digital economy growing 16% in 2023; Prabowo Subianto's efforts to position Indonesia as a neutral geopolitical player; and how founders can reassess their long-term priorities and time investments in startups. === Watch, listen or read the full insight at www.bravesea.com/blog/ indonesia-apple-1b-deal Nonton, dengar atau baca wawasan lengkapnya di www.bravesea.com/blog/ indonesia-apple-1b-deal 观看、收听或阅读全文，请访问 www.bravesea.com/blog/ indonesia-apple-1b-deal Xem, nghe hoặc đọc toàn bộ thông tin chi tiết tại www.bravesea.com/blog/ indonesia-apple-1b-deal Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.bravesea.com WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VakR55X6BIElUEvkN02e TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremyau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyauz Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravesea Spotify English: https://open.spotify.com/show/4TnqkaWpTT181lMA8xNu0T Bahasa Indonesia: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Vs8t6qPo0eFb4o6zOmiVZ Chinese: https://open.spotify.com/show/20AGbzHhzFDWyRTbHTVDJR Vietnamese: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yqd3Jj0I19NhN0h8lWrK1 YouTube English: https://www.youtube.com/@JeremyAu?sub_confirmation=1 Apple Podcast English: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/brave-southeast-asia-tech-singapore-indonesia-vietnam/id1506890464 Learn more about Nika.eco! Reach out to info@nika.eco if you are a geospatial data scientist or climate researcher who is interested to partner on a pilot or research opportunities #AppleInvestment #IndonesiaEconomy #TechPolicy #MiddleClassChallenges #StartupCulture

干货满满的一期。本期请陪伴过上千个创业者成长的人力资源专家、本身也是创业者的张美吉来和大家聊聊如何认清职场的本质和那些话糙理不糙的职场真相。对职场本质的思考、理解、践行与迭代决定了一个人的增长曲线。她谈到当下就业环境的变化以及在巨变之下如何重新建构自我认知和职业选择策略，以及在她眼里，怎样才算顶级人才？成功的创业者身上具备哪些特质？欢迎对号入座，以及对不上也不耽误入座。值得思考的几个问题：- 别人愿意与你合作，是因为你本人的核心能力还是你所代表的平台能力？- 选择重要还是努力重要？- 要当鸡头还是凤尾？- 职场上什么样的大腿算是好大腿？愿这一期有所启发，找到属于你的罗马，以及基于自己核心能力的、在职场上穿越周期的路径。美吉微信公众号：张美吉视频号： 张美吉小红书: 张美吉即刻：张美吉（全媒体平台都叫张美吉，欢迎大家关注美吉）�时间轴00:33 美吉是谁？最懂创业者的HR，一个创业者背后的创业者。美吉的职业发展路径三个阶段：高管猎头、职业经理人、成为一个创业者。05:31 职场扎心真相一：“要么成为大腿，要么抱大腿。”找到一个方式成为你持续不断的被动收入来源。思考：大部分人的工资收入只有20年，如何用这20年的职场收入来养活自己一生？08:57 如何抱大腿？信任是最稀缺的资源。10:23 思考：别人愿意与你合作，是因为你本人的核心能力还是你所代表的平台能力？你能不能在职场上穿越周期？14:55 关于挑选大腿——忠诚的背后是对此人的信念。18:28 值得跟随的大腿的四个特点：1.允许你犯错2. 不甩锅、给你兜底 3. 给你发光的机会 4. 是你的榜样，你想成为的样子。20:51 职场扎心真相二：要么忍、要么滚。27:34 你有和老板聊过你的困扰吗？没有任何问题，是不能用沟通来解决的。28:36 对“竭尽全力”的新注解——竭尽自己的能力和竭尽自己的资源。29:24学会示弱和求助是一种能力。32:39 既然要忍，不如找一个让自己更舒服的姿势。33:41 老板喜欢什么样的人？老板喜欢奴才还是人才？34:34 “奴才”并不等于人格不平等，滑跪可以是一种策略。那些职场上的被迫害妄想症和委屈怪——学会去识别你蒙受的职场恶意是否真的是针对你而来的。38:36 窝囊费：70%的工资是为承受老板的情绪付费39:54 对职场本质的思考、理解、践行与迭代决定了一个人的成长速度41:05 钱难挣屎难吃——关于能不能站着要饭和能不能吃屎。43:55 只要是自己的主动选择，就是好选择。46:13 遇到一个好老板，是幸运，不是必然。49:21 “在追求你自己的罗马的道路上，别人的罗马与你无关”。52:21 外企的职场斗争貌似更文明？54:03 职场冤魂论：职场上别人对你的恶意，往往和你无关，而和此人自身累世的创伤有关。55:57 怎么才算顶级人才？1.跨行业的迁移能力 2. 在你的领域中，有两个能拿得出手的项目 3. 有一套自洽的方法论，构建过一个好体系或参与过好体系的建设 4. 善于表达 5. 有一个超级长板，灯塔级的存在 6. 销售能力是一个底层能力 7. 身处顶级资源圈1:03:41 当下职场环境的变化？1. 年薪百万的泡沫破裂，企业从规模换增长过度到用利润换增长，百万年薪要创造1个亿的GMV；2. 未来工作会越来越难找，除了考虑当下收入，还要考虑这个收入能维持多久 3. AI原住民，一些可以用AI提效的岗位都是未来需要的1:09:06 转型成功的个案？1. 能力上的单点变现——重新思考自己的核心能力和与这个单点能力匹配的岗位 2. 出海1:16:26 为什么仍然有很多公司找不到合适的人？当前的人才市场不是缺乏共计，而是严重错配1:18:51 成功的创业者身上有哪些特质 1. 发心正 2. 格局 3. 足够狠，敢于做艰难决定 4. 把人当资产而非成本 5. 勇敢、聪明、努力是最基本的——如果既聪明、又努力，能跑赢80%的人 6. 创业要吃的苦其实不是体力上的苦，而是孤独。内心强大到能扛住孤独1:25:11 创业拔草机——为什么不鼓励刚刚毕业的大学生创业？1:29:07 美吉如何成为自己？3 个关键点1. 学历不等于学习能力2. 做鸡头还是凤尾，是你的人生战略 3. 与其更好，不如不同1:38:39 你独立为自己做的第一个人生重大决定是什么时候？1:43:06 选择重要还是努力重要？选择建立在self-awareness(自我认知)的基础上。对自己认识的深度就是你人生幸福的高度1:46:29 到底是要当鸡头还是凤尾？无法脱离自己所处的人生阶段来谈论这个问题2:17:16 再论选择重要还是努力重要。选择的背后是安全感的冗余1:55:19 乳腺癌的经历给自己带来的最大的变化？除了生死，皆是擦伤。1. 懂得拒绝 2. 做减法 3. 不给自己留遗憾 4.有一个幸福的家庭兜底很重要2:01:23 生病之后自己想抵达的地方变了吗？罗马没变，但是更接近事情的本质。2:05:02 你今年最值得为自己鼓掌的是什么时候？2:06:15 今年有认识什么有趣的人吗？2:07:21 如果有机会修正一个决定，会是什么？战略是我们的信仰，它不会改变；战术是我们的信仰，它一定会摇摆本期书籍：《高效能人士的七个习惯》本期思考：你的核心能力是什么？你独立为自己做的第一个人生重大决定是什么时候？你今年最值得为自己鼓掌的是什么时候？欢迎关注Slightly Open。这是三位女性的一个小型谈话节目，薇薇，Coco（@Wang蔻蔻）和老柴（@老柴）。也欢迎关注我们的小红书同名账号！

Join us on this episode of Generally Curious as we delve into the fascinating journey of Jeanine Suah, a trailblazer who transitioned from linguistics to leading the charge in tech and venture capital. Jeanine shares how her unique background has equipped her with the skills to smash targets at Brex, creating a $30M+ monthly GMV pipeline, and her mission to democratize access to venture capital for the underserved. Discover Jeanine's blend of tech smarts and street smarts, and get practical strategies for community growth and making VC accessible to all. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a tech enthusiast, or someone navigating a non-linear career path, Jeanine's story offers valuable insights and actionable advice. Tune in to learn how to leverage diverse experiences to drive innovation and success in the tech industry.

In this episode of FYI, ARK Chief Futurist Brett Winton and ARK Associate Portfolio Manager Nicholas Grous engage with Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify, to explore the transformative role of technology and AI in empowering entrepreneurship and shaping the future of commerce. Harley highlights Shopify's commitment to leveling the playing field for entrepreneurs worldwide, from its origins as an e-commerce platform to its evolution as a comprehensive retail operating system. They explore how Shopify is enabling seamless global commerce, leveraging generative AI for merchant success, and fostering innovation through partnerships and ecosystem development. Harley also shares insights into the increasing democratization of entrepreneurship, the rise of agentic shopping behavior, and the company's vision of creating tools that scale with businesses, from startups to iconic global brands.Key Points From This Episode:Shopify's growth highlights from Q3, including 24% gross merchandise value (GMV) growth and expanded free cash flow margins.The rise of entrepreneurship globally and Shopify's role in fostering it across diverse industries and geographies.Shopify's strategy in supporting both small businesses and large enterprises without compromising on its core values.The critical role of AI in reducing barriers for entrepreneurs, from product photography to customer interaction.The emergence of agentic shopping behaviors powered by AI and Shopify's tools like shop.ai to enhance customer experience.Strategic decisions in balancing in-house development versus partnerships with companies like Stripe, Affirm, and OpenAI.The importance of internationalization and customization in addressing consumer preferences in 175+ markets.Shopify's transition from an e-commerce provider to a global retail operating system for businesses of all sizes.Success stories of merchants scaling with Shopify, from Gymshark to Mattel Creations and beyond.Shopify's vision for the future: democratizing access to tools historically reserved for the largest brands.

Chinese consumers have exhibited robust purchasing power for high-quality and intelligent products containing innovative technologies during the Singles Day shopping extravaganza.在“双十一”购物狂欢节期间，中国消费者对包含创新技术的高品质和智能产品表现出强劲购买力。Experts said this has played a vital role in promoting the recovery of consumption and shoring up economic growth in the country.专家表示，这对促进国内消费复苏和支撑经济增长起到了重要作用。Major Chinese e-commerce platforms have extended the promotional period, and adopted a simple and more pragmatic approach by canceling presale campaigns this year.中国的主要电商平台都延长了促销期，并采取简单务实的做法，取消了今年的预售活动。Instead, direct price cuts have become the preferred strategy to attract price-conscious customers and bolster sales during China's biggest online shopping event. 直接降价反而成为吸引价格敏感型顾客的首选策略，在中国最大的网购活动期间助力促售。Experts also said that unlike in the past, when record-smashing gross merchandise volume, or GMV, through discount-led sales had come to characterize the 11-11 or Double Eleven promotional campaign, chasing high GMV is no longer the focus now.专家们还表示，以往通过折扣带动销售来创造破纪录的商品交易总额（GMV）是双十一促销活动的特点，而现在，追求高GMV已不再是重点。Chinese shoppers are becoming more rational and carefully reviewing their needs, with an emphasis on the quality and value of commodities, they added.专家补充，中国购物者变得更加理性，他们会仔细思考自己的需求，注重商品的质量和价值。Data from Tmall, Chinese tech heavyweight Alibaba Group's business-to-customer platform, showed that in the first four hours after the shopping carnival officially kicked off at 8 pm on Oct 21, 174 brands saw their sales surpass 100 million yuan ($14 million).中国科技巨头阿里巴巴集团旗下B2C平台天猫的数据显示，在“双十一”于10月21日晚8点正式拉开帷幕后的四个小时内，有174个品牌的销售额超过了1亿元人民币（约1400万美元）。During this period, the turnover of more than 12,000 brands surged over 100 percent year-on-year and the sales of nearly 6,000 brands skyrocketed more than 500 percent compared with the same period last year.在此期间，12000多个品牌的营业额同比增长超过100%，近6000个品牌的销售额同比增长超过500%。The transaction volume of Apple Inc's products on Tmall exceeded 1 billion yuan within five minutes, while sales of domestic smartphone brands such as Huawei, Xiaomi and Vivo all surpassed 100 million yuan in the first four hours of the promotional event, according to Tmall.天猫数据显示，苹果公司产品在天猫上的交易额5分钟内就突破10亿元，而华为、小米、vivo等国产智能手机品牌在促销活动的前4个小时内销售额均突破1亿元。Consumers preferred to snap up bargains via livestreaming on e-commerce platforms, with sales from some top-tier livestreamers on Taobao Live, Alibaba's livestreaming arm, surpassing 100 million yuan within a short period.消费者更喜欢通过电商平台上的直播抢购特价商品，阿里巴巴旗下直播平台淘宝直播上一些头部主播直播间的销售额在短时间内就突破了1亿元。JD, another major Chinese e-commerce player, has launched a subsidy campaign worth 10 billion yuan, and given discounts for commodities included in the consumer goods trade-in program, such as home appliances and computers. It has also stepped up efforts to upgrade supply chains and logistics services.中国另一家大型电商平台京东推出了价值100亿元的补贴活动，并为家电、电脑等以旧换新计划中的商品提供折扣。京东还加大力度升级供应链和物流服务。JD said it recorded a double-digit year-on-year growth in transaction volume, orders, and user numbers between 8 pm on Oct 14, when its promotional gala opened, and 9 pm on Oct 31.京东称，从10月14日晚8点促销活动开始至10月31日晚9点，其交易量、订单数和用户数量均实现了两位数的同比增长。More than 16,000 brands saw their sales surge over threefold year-on-year, while the number of brands exceeding 100 million yuan in turnover increased over 400 percent compared with the same period last year. More than 17,000 merchants witnessed their order volumes soar over five times from a year earlier.16000多个品牌的销售额同比增长超过3倍，营业额超过1亿元的品牌数量同比增长超过400%。17000多家商户的订单量比去年同期激增5倍多。New users who bought apparel and cosmetics via JD's online marketplaces skyrocketed over 140 percent year-on-year, while JD's livestreaming channel saw a 245 percent year-on-year increase in order volumes.通过京东网上商城购买服装和化妆品的新用户同比激增超过140%，而京东直播频道的订单量同比增长245%。Consumer electronic devices witnessed robust growth during the shopping extravaganza.电子设备消费在购物节期间实现了强劲增长。The transaction volume of gaming laptops rose 120 percent year-on-year during the shopping spree, and AI smartphones and 4K projectors experienced 100 percent growth in turnover, while the sales of AI learning devices and 3D printers surged over 10 times from the same period last year, JD said.京东表示，“双十一”期间，游戏笔记本电脑的成交量同比增长120%，AI智能手机和4K投影仪的成交量增长100%，AI学习设备和3D打印机的销售量比去年同期激增10倍以上。Furthermore, a series of products that represent scientific and technological innovations achieved by Chinese enterprises have been made available on e-commerce platform Taobao. These products cover fields such as information technology, artificial intelligence, aerospace, new energy and quantum technology. 此外，代表中国企业科技创新成果的一系列产品已在电商平台淘宝上进行销售。这些产品涵盖信息技术、人工智能、航空航天、新能源和量子技术等领域。For example, consumers can directly purchase the country's independently developed AS700 civil manned airship and enjoy discounts. The airship can be used for sightseeing, emergency rescue and geophysical exploration of the skies, among other things.例如，消费者可以直接购买中国自主研发的AS700民用载人飞艇，并享受折扣优惠。该飞艇可用于观光旅游、紧急救援和天空地球物理勘探等。The Double Eleven festival was just a 24-hour event on Nov 11 when it was unveiled by Alibaba in 2009, but has stretched into a weekslong shopping spree lasting from mid-October to mid-November this year. Online retailers initiated the promotional event one week earlier this year than previously.阿里巴巴在2009年推出“双十一”活动时，该购物节还只是一个在11月11日举行的24小时活动，但今年的“双十一”已发展成从10月中旬持续到11月中旬的长达数周的购物狂欢节。与以往相比，今年的促销活动提前了一周。"Consumption has become the main driving force boosting China's economic growth, and the Singles Day shopping carnival is pivotal to unleashing consumers' purchasing potential, bolstering domestic demand and promoting consumption recovery," said Wang Yun, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research.中国宏观经济研究院研究员王蕴表示：“消费已成为拉动中国经济增长的主要动力，‘双十一'购物狂欢节对于释放消费者购买潜力、拉动内需、促进消费复苏具有举足轻重的作用。”More stimulus policies are needed to stabilize and expand employment, improve household incomes, and boost people's ability and willingness to spend, so as to further perk up consumption, Wang added.王蕴补充，需要更多的刺激政策来稳定和扩大就业，提高家庭收入，增强人们的消费能力和意愿，从而进一步刺激消费。China's retail sales, a significant indicator of consumption strength, rose 3.3 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters of this year, said the National Bureau of Statistics. Online sales remained a bright spot, rising 8.6 percent year-on-year during the January-September period. 国家统计局数据显示，作为衡量消费实力的重要指标，今年前三季度，中国社会消费品零售总额同比增长3.3%，线上消费仍是一大亮点，网上零售额1-9月同比增长8.6%。Based on a survey by global consulting firm AlixPartners in early October, consumers still view Singles Day as the most important shopping festival. Most consumers are likely to maintain their spending levels from the previous year, with 25 percent of interviewed shoppers saying that there would be an increase in their overall spending, the consultancy said.根据全球咨询公司艾睿铂10月初的一项调查，消费者仍将“双十一”视为最重要的购物节。咨询公司称，大多数消费者可能会保持去年的消费水平，25%的受访购物者表示他们的总体消费会有所增加。Most of the increased spending based on the survey would be in apparel, daily necessities and cosmetics. Consumers are likely to remain sensible in their spending given the current economic backdrop, it added.根据调查，大部分增加的支出将用于服装、日用品和化妆品。该调查补充，在当前的经济背景下，消费者可能会保持理性消费。Online retailers have made promotional methods simpler this time, with a key focus on improving user experience and seeking high-quality and long-term growth, as Chinese consumers are more prudent and rational about potential purchases, said Jason Yu, managing director and vice-executive president of CTR Media Convergence Institute.央视市场研究（CTR）总经理、CTR媒体融合研究院执行副院长虞坚认为，随着中国消费者对潜在购买行为更加谨慎和理性，网络零售商此次将促销方式变得更加简单，重点放在提升用户体验、寻求高质量和长期增长上。Yu said retailers hope to roll out new products to attract consumers and build brand image during the shopping spree.虞坚表示，网络零售商希望在购物热潮中推出新产品来吸引消费者，并树立品牌形象。High-quality and intelligent commodities are crucial for stimulating the purchasing appetite of consumers and unleashing new consumption potential, he said.他说，高品质、智能化的商品对于刺激消费者的购买欲、释放新的消费潜力至关重要。"A series of pro-consumption policies, such as the consumer goods trade-in program, have played a significant role in bolstering the sales of consumer electronic products and household appliances on major online marketplaces," Yu added. 虞坚补充：“消费品以旧换新等一系列有利于消费的政策，对促进电子消费品和家用电器在主要线上市场的销售发挥了重要作用。”Meanwhile, Taobao and Tmall have officially integrated JD's logistics during this year's shopping carnival as sellers on these platforms can choose JD Logistics as the delivery method. JD has accepted the mobile payment option from Alipay, which is operated by financial technology company Ant Group.与此同时，淘宝和天猫在今年“双十一”期间正式整合了京东物流，这些平台上的卖家可以选择京东物流作为配送方式。京东已接入由金融科技公司蚂蚁集团运营的支付宝提供的移动支付方式。Industry insiders said these moves signify a key step in breaking down barriers between the two leading internet companies, enhancing interconnectivity of different platforms, and elevating the online shopping experience of users.业内人士表示，这些举措标志着两家先进互联网公司在打破壁垒、加强不同平台互联互通、提升用户在线购物体验方面迈出了关键一步。Mo Daiqing, a senior analyst at the Internet Economy Institute, a domestic consultancy, said major e-commerce platforms have ramped up efforts to offer steep discounts and shopping subsidies as well as simplify promotion methods during the prolonged shopping carnival to rev up sales.网经社电子商务研究中心高级分析师莫岱青表示，各大电商平台已加大力度，在持续很久的购物狂欢节期间提供大幅折扣和购物补贴，并简化促销方式，以刺激销售。"The policy measures to encourage trade-ins of consumer goods have not only stimulated consumers' desire to purchase, but also bolstered the sales and upgrades of household appliances, and propelled the popularity of green and energy-saving products," Mo said.“消费品以旧换新的政策措施不仅刺激了消费者的购买欲望，还促进了家电产品的销售和升级换代，推动了绿色节能产品的普及。”莫岱青说。She noted that Chinese consumers have become more value-conscious and are paying more attention to the quality and cost-effectiveness of commodities. Mo also emphasized that online retailers should launch new products and upgrade supply chains to attract a new breed of young shoppers.她指出，中国消费者变得更加注重价值，更加关注商品的质量和成本效益。莫岱青还强调，线上零售商应推出新产品并升级供应链，以吸引新一代年轻购物者。It is noteworthy that generative artificial intelligence technology has witnessed a ramp-up in China's retail industry during this year's 11-11 promotion.值得注意的是，在今年的“双十一”促销活动中，生成式人工智能技术在中国零售业迎来了爆发期。According to a report from consultancy Bain & Company, Chinese retail players are investing in generative AI to boost sales and Singles Day could be the perfect opportunity.根据贝恩咨询公司的一份报告，中国零售商正在投资发展生成式人工智能技术，以期拉动销售额，今年的“双十一”成为生成式AI大显身手的好机会。The report said 52 percent of the surveyed merchants have used at least one generative AI-enabled tool. More than half of them have used generative AI-powered customer service chatbot tools, while about one in three have used AI to generate content. The survey interviewed over 500 merchants trading on China's major e-commerce platforms.报告称，52%的商家使用过至少一种生成式AI工具，其中超过50%的商家使用过AI智能客服机器人，还有约1/3的商家利用AI生成内容。这项调查访问了中国主要电子商务平台上的500多家商户。It stated that the era of high double-digit increases in the GMV during the Singles Day shopping spree has come to an end, forcing retailers to focus more on sustainable growth, profitability and customer loyalty, rather than a win-at-all-costs obsession with the top line amid current economic headwinds.该报告指出，“双十一”期间GMV以两位数高速增长的时代已经结束，这迫使零售商更加关注可持续增长、盈利能力和客户忠诚度，而不是在当前的经济逆风中一味追求最高利润。Kelly Liu, partner at Bain & Company's Greater China retail and performance improvement practices, said AI's increasing prominence across Chinese retail sector offers a timely boost to a maturing industry that is facing challenges such as slower retail sales growth.贝恩公司全球合伙人、大中华区零售和绩效提升业务领导团队成员刘洋表示，人工智能在中国零售业的影响力和作用与日俱增，这为面临零售销售增长放缓等挑战的成熟行业提供了及时的推动力。Generative AI gives Chinese retailers access to a powerful tool for increasing sales and lowering cost, Liu said.刘洋认为，生成式人工智能为中国零售商提供了促进降本增效的强大工具。"It is vital that Chinese retailers deepen their customer engagement. AI tools can energize customer retention efforts, enabling e-commerce players to hyper-personalize their engagement with consumers and create bespoke shopping experiences for them," said James Yang, head of Bain & Company's Greater China retail practice.贝恩公司大中华区零售业务主席杨大坤表示，“中国零售商必须加强与顾客的互动。AI工具可以优化顾客挽留措施，帮助电商平台打造高度个性化的顾客互动方式，为顾客带来量身定制的购物体验。”Chinese retailers need to transition faster from AI experimentation to deployment at scale. The retailers that master generative AI in three key areas — deepening customer engagement, turbo-charging productivity and cost savings, and finding new growth beyond trade — could build a lasting strategic advantage, according to the report.中国零售商需要加快从AI实验过渡到大规模部署的步伐。报告指出，零售商如果能掌握生成式AI技术，并利用其成功强化顾客经营、推动降本增效、找到新增长点，就能建立长久的战略优势。Singles Day shopping extravaganza“双十一”购物狂欢节price-conscious customers价格敏感型顾客appareln. 服装gross merchandise volume商品交易总额

Archie Abrams is the VP of Product and Head of Growth at Shopify, where he leads a 600+ person growth org across product, design, engineering, data, ops, and growth marketing. Shopify powers over 10% of e-commerce in the United States, with $235 billion in GMV in 2023 (roughly the size of Finland's economy). He previously led Consumer product and growth at Lyft and was at Udemy for 8 years as SVP of Product having joined the company when it was 10 people. In our conversation, we discuss:• Why Shopify optimizes for churn• Why the core product team doesn't use metrics-based goals• Why they keep multi-year experiment holdouts• How they structure their growth team• The benefits of not having a CMO• Lessons learned about integrating sales into a product-led growth model• The power of discounting as a growth lever• Much more—Brought to you by:• Explo—Embed customer-facing analytics in your product• Dovetail—The customer insights hub for product teams—Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/shopifys-growth-archie-abrams—Where to find Archie Abrams:• X: https://x.com/archieabrams• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archie-abrams-b6aa8b6/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Archie's background (02:30) Shopify's impressive growth(06:17) Shopify's unique approach to churn and retention(08:43) Monetization model and success metrics(11:08) Long-term experimentation and metrics(23:00) Examples of big wins that Archie's team has shipped(26:42) Monetary friction(27:14) Metrics(29:47) Shopify's growth team structure(33:03) Goal setting and forecasting(37:10) Examples of long-term results within Shopify(41:36) Shipping neutral experiments(42:05) Building a hundred-year company(48:04) Why Shopify doesn't use KPIs(51:30) Shopify's “Get s**t done” framework(54:30) Cross-team collaboration (58:48) The importance of an opinionated founder (01:01:12) Growth and sales integration(01:06:42) Shopify's marketing structure(01:08:49) Insights on discounting from Udemy(01:11:09) Lightning round—Referenced:• Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/• Tobias Lütke on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiaslutke• Gross Merchandise Value: Calculation and Best Practices: https://www.shopify.com/retail/gross-merchandise-value• Brian Chesky's new playbook: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-approach• Glen Coates on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glcoates• Harley Finkelstein on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harleyf• Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/• Scientific Advertising: https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Advertising-Original-Claude-Hopkins/dp/1640954252• Four-Minute Mile: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Minute-Mile-Roger-Bannister/dp/1493038753/• The Sopranos on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/the-sopranos• Suno: https://suno.com/—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

从文具行业到天猫电商平台，从内容电商阵地小红书到离开平台独立开启美妆领域创业，这样的职场转型经历是如何做到的？如何在每一步的职场经历中汲取营养，充分学习？做美妆领域带货直播的诀窍是什么？5000粉丝撬动百万GMV可以实现吗？本期「贝望录」我们和嘉宾一起聊聊从文具界转型到美妆领域，从办公室踏入直播间的职场转型经历有多少“蓄谋已久”和“厚积薄发”？在直播电商领域，如何凭借对产品的深刻理解和精准定位，实现个人品牌的打造和销售的增长？选品有多关键、深度服务用户要如何实现、品牌故事性要通过何种方式触达消费者？希望嘉宾在职场不断翻篇保持积极进取的经历可以给大家带来一些思考和勇气。【本节目由Withinlink碚曦投资协作体出品】【嘉宾】柚子美妆及生活方式买手、行业专家，薯名乱菊：前小红书美护电商lead小红书:@二师兄柚子_Yuuko【主持】李倩玲 Bessie Lee广告营销行业资深从业者，商业观察者【本期内容提要】[00:58]我的职场转型：从文具行业到美妆领域[02:43]当初选择去天猫就像是选择去上EMBA课程[06:12]品牌nickname就是品牌的护城河[07:56]内容电商平台的兴起和我的早期观察[11:07]小红书早期电商生态和商家角色的演变[14:08]从我在小红书的经历，以及家居行业角度解读小红书平台策略[18:04]从美妆创作者到买手[24:15]我决定从小红书离开自己单干[27:34]如何在较短时间内实现百万GMV[32:48]精准选择&深度合作[36:23]专注内容比涨粉更重要[47:23]社交媒体数据重要吗？[48:45]我的第一场直播是如何诞生的[59:39]从十五万到破百万[01:08:53]超级用户的经历给自己带来了不同的视角[01:11:40]要加入MCN公司吗？[01:17:41]选品的标准和真实的自我是最重要的[01:23:05]我觉得焦虑也可以推动自我提升[01:27:28]不断翻篇，保持成长==========贝望录听友福利时间到！===============柚子为「贝望录」的听友准备了美妆产品优惠链接!!!第一个产品是法国细胞护肤专家品牌丽茜媂娅LYSEDIA的lysedia焕活红参保湿面霜。小红书店铺名「丽茜媂娅LYSEDIA」第二个产品是来自法国南部的高端纯净护肤品牌ALYSCAMPS的感官净澈洗护凝露（洗脸&洗头&沐浴三合一）。小红书店铺名「ALYSCAMPS」购买方法：听友通过点击下面产品链接进入产品页面，或者在小红书内搜索到对应店铺找到该商品，给客服报暗号「贝望录」，客服会发放专属链接来用优惠价购买。（万一你真的找不到产品链接，可以在小红书上私信柚子@二师兄柚子_Yuuko 来获得「贝望录」专属链接。）优惠有效期：11月7日中午12点至12月7日中午12点结束产品1：lysedia焕活红参保湿面霜50ml优惠：日常价¥618，双十一限时价格¥518，贝望录听友报暗号后到手价¥438，同时加赠价值¥618的赠品。小红书商品链接https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/609770eb000000000100a195?tab=goods&channelType=share_outside&xhsshare=WeixinSession&appuid=5be2efe460c4bf000103b23a&apptime=1730891688&wechatWid=740e478f35527b81f40e66667dd7144b&wechatOrigin=menu产品2: ALYSCAMPS感官净澈洗护凝露（洗脸&洗头&沐浴三合一） 200ml优惠：日常价¥498，双十一价格¥423，贝望录听友报暗号后到手价¥328，同时还有加赠。小红书商品链接https://www.xiaohongshu.com/goods-detail/6630c47e30b5ae000167a337?xsec_token=XBim3yhQm6_SnWp5pRpVQEcdtMZ1DPK28yWJfkO7pbtzU=&xsec_source=app_share&instation_link=xhsdiscover%3A%2F%2Fgoods_detail%2F6630c47e30b5ae000167a337%3Ftrade_ext%3DeyJjaGFubmVsSW5mbyI6bnVsbCwiZHNUb2tlbkluZm8iOm51bGwsInNoYXJlTGluayI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnhpYW9ob25nc2h1LmNvbS9nb29kcy1kZXRhaWwvNjYzMGM0N2UzMGI1YWUwMDAxNjdhMzM3P2FwcHVpZD01NDgyYTU4YmQ2ZTRhOTU3NDU4MjcxMzEiLCJsaXZlSW5mbyI6bnVsbCwic2hvcEluZm8iOm51bGwsImdvb2RzTm90ZUluZm8iOm51bGwsImNoYXRJbmZvIjpudWxsLCJzZWFyY2hJbmZvIjpudWxsLCJwcmVmZXIiOm51bGx9%26rn%3Dtrue&share_id=6f3c3ba16793461b926c9db4dcbe6517======11月9日成都听友会持续招募中=====【后期制作】小朱【收听方式】推荐您使用Apple Podcast、小宇宙APP、喜马拉雅、汽水儿APP、荔枝播客、网易云音乐、QQ音乐、Spotify或任意泛用型播客客户端订阅收听《贝望录》。【互动方式】微博：@贝望录微信公众号：贝望录+商务合作：beiwanglu@withinlink.com

"The key message of the report is that the fundamentals of this region are critical, they're clear, and businesses are doing exactly, I think, what they need to do for us to move ahead." - Sapna Chadha "Given that one of the other themes we've had this year is trust, having a strong regulatory foundation and good constructs around that for digital financial services is critical to unlocking the next wave of growth here." - Florian Hoppe "All 10 ASEAN nations have announced their own national strategic AI initiatives or plans, and ASEAN itself has actually released a report and guide on AI governance and ethics. So, I think if you put all that together, it's very natural that Southeast Asia is, quite frankly, well-positioned to capitalize on the AI trend." - Fock Wai Hoong Fresh out of the studio in Google, Bernard Leong led a discussion on the 2024 Southeast Asia Digital Economy Report, joined by Sapna Chadha (Google), Florian Hope (Bain & Company), and Wai Hoong (Temasek). The panel delved into Southeast Asia's impressive digital growth, with the region's economy reaching $263 billion in GMV and significant strides in profitability. The panellists examined the key themes which include Southeast Asia's emergence as an AI hub, driven by $30 billion in AI investments, the rise of video commerce, and the region's booming digital financial services specifically on embedded insurance. The conversation highlights challenges and opportunities in digital inclusion, AI infrastructure, and regional integration, providing a nuanced outlook on Southeast Asia's potential. The episode concludes with each panellist sharing their vision for Southeast Asia's digital future and success metrics for the next decade, emphasizing the region's unique strengths and long-term global impact. Audio Episode Highlights [00:46] Introduction [02:17] Key Report Insights [04:09] How Sapna, Florian, and Wai Hoong provide perspectives to the key report takeaways [07:00] Investor Perspective on Southeast Asia [10:06] Exiting the Funding Winter [12:44] AI's Role in Accelerating Growth [14:30] Impact of Video E-commerce [16:23] Growth in Digital Financial Services [18:03] Embedded Insurance in E-commerce [24:12] AI Infrastructure Investment [27:55] Southeast Asia's Startup Ecosystem [29:45] Generative AI Use Cases [31:06] AI for Revenue and Cost Optimization [34:16] New Internet Users and Digital Inclusion [37:55] Regional Integration as a Success Metric [39:01] Vision for Southeast Asia Digital Economy Success [40:20] Closing Remarks Podcast Information: Bernard Leong hosts and produces the show. Proper credits for the intro and end music: "Energetic Sports Drive" and the episode is mixed & edited in both video and audio format by G. Thomas Craig Analyse Asia Main Site: https://analyse.asia Analyse Asia Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kkRwzRZa4JCICr2vm0vGl Analyse Asia Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/analyse-asia-with-bernard-leong/id914868245 Analyse Asia YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnalyseAsia Analyse Asia LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/analyse-asia/ Analyse Asia X (formerly known as Twitter): https://twitter.com/analyseasia Analyse Asia Threads: https://www.threads.net/@analyseasia Sign Up for Our This Week in Asia Newsletter: https://www.analyse.asia/#/portal/signup Subscribe Newsletter on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7149559878934540288

VCommerce experts Matt Hodlofski & Nicolas Bailliache every Friday at 11am ET for a lively discussion on the latest developments shaping the #videocommerce and #liveshopping landscape. #vcommerceReceive weekly live shopping industry updates and tips in our newsletter: https://try.estreamly.com/newsletterSeason 2: EP13Holiday SeasonBattlbox: the power of videosWhatNot crossing $2b GMV!#1 liveshopping creator on TikTok About eStreamly: eStreamly enables shoppable livestreams & videos across platforms, including your website, social media, SMS, emails... Video become a direct ecommerce extension with in-video checkout, boasting a 10-15% conversion rate. Fast and reliable, it's your payment, your inventory, your ecommerce. https://hubs.ly/Q02qJNmM0About Matt: He has over 25 years of vcommerce experience within product marketing and sales. He currently is a partner at e6 marketing, a firm that help brands to go on QVC/ HSN#curated #videocommerce news of the week #ecommerce #retail

In this TikTok Shop Insiders episode, we unpack the pros and cons of free shipping on TikTok Shop and how it can drive conversions. We also cover the rising trend of selling US TikTok Shops for $1K and dive into TikTok Shop's latest changes, including stricter messaging limits tied to GMV. We discuss how brands can make the most of their outreach by targeting engaged affiliates and share insights on creating a free affiliate academy—an innovative hub where strategies are shared and top affiliates connect with brands. Tune in to discover how you can navigate TikTok Shop's fast-evolving environment!

Send us a textIdentify your top 3 SKUs and run targeted ads to increase sales. Building up the GMV on these SKUs is essential before engaging with mega affiliates.In this episode, Jordan West gets into the world of TikTok Shop. Whether you're just getting started or looking to scale your presence, his here to share valuable insights on creating a successful strategy. At Upgrowth Commerce, they've helped brands achieve phenomenal results, including a standout moment with one brand generating over $110,000 in a single day on TikTok Shop.Listen and learn in this episode!Key takeaways from this episode:Phased Approach: A high-level phased approach is advised for TikTok Shop:Phase 1: Establish a solid foundation with good quality, marketplace-type images for your store.Phase 2: Focus on generating sales on the top 3 SKUs by creating content and running ads.Phase 3: Engage with affiliates only after proving substantial sales and GMV on your store, using social proof and highlighting successful collaborations.Content Creation: Upgrowth Commerce uses in-house creators to produce content which is then used for ads, helping promote specific SKUs.Affiliate Strategy: Affiliates are more inclined to work with brands that show they can generate revenue. Demonstrating past successes with influencers can be persuasive.The Importance of FOMO and Social Proof: These marketing strategies are crucial when reaching out to affiliates, utilizing them to create a sense of urgency and opportunity.Becoming Desirable to Affiliates: The end goal is to have a reputation strong enough that affiliates seek to collaborate with you.LinkedIn Issue: Jordan shares a personal note about being locked out of his LinkedIn account and communicates alternate ways to connect with him.Audience Appreciation: Jordan thanks the podcast listeners for their support and encourages them to continue sharing the podcast.Growth Plan: www.upgrowthcommerce.com/growMillion Dollar Offers: www.upgrowthcommerce.com/growIn this episode's sponsor is Particl - a decentralized marketplace built on blockchain. With privacy at its core, Particl allows users to anonymously buy and sell goods using its cryptocurrency, PART. No middlemen, no extra fees—just secure, encrypted, peer-to-peer transactions. Learn how Particl is revolutionizing e-commerce with its unique focus on security and privacy. Learn more here: Particl

Lanzamiento de la misión Hera; Patrocinio de GMV. Extracto del Ep482

La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Cara A: -Anuncio: CB 485 en el Planetario de Buenos Aires (3:00) -Retractados 75 papers de Corchado por la editorial Springer Nature (12:00) -Lanzamiento de la misión Hera (26:00) -Patrocinio de GMV (38:00) -Lanzamiento de prueba Starship IFT-5 (43:00) Este episodio continúa en la Cara B. Contertulios: Jose Edelstein, Francis Villatoro, Héctor Socas. Imagen de portada realizada con Midjourney. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace... y a veces ni eso

最近一段时间，电商平台 TikTok Shop 的全球销售表现十分亮眼，据数据统计，今年上半年美国 TikTok 带货直播的单场 GMV 突破了 100 万美元，并且预计到 11 月还将突破单场 500 万美元。 那从今年夏天开始就有一些朋友向我打听北美的电商环境，并且我也发现周围有一些在国内做 MCN 的朋友想要出海。MCN 出海呢其实也不是什么新闻了，国内已经有一些头部直播电商的 MCN 公司迈出了第一步，甚至是第二第三步。 在我帮朋友打听北美资源的时候，突然想到了之前来我们节目聊过流媒体大战的嘉宾 Jessamine Dong，她之前一直在好莱坞从事电影行业。当我问她是不是了解北美电商资源的时候，她说自己已经成为了相关的从业者，并且是在北美 TikTok 平台上 GMV 最大的 MCN 机构。那我们今天就请到了 Jessamine 来与我们聊一聊北美的电商环境现在究竟怎么样？现在是品牌、 MCN 出海的好机会么？美国的市场与中国究竟有何不同？ 主要话题 [02:37] TikTok shop 北美进化史：从中国卖家到本土商店，店铺形式逐渐多样 [05:40] TikTok 直播 GMV 猛增的背后：平台砸钱补贴，四倍流量扶植 [09:54] 中美直播对比：中国更像娱乐节目，美国更像大卖场 [14:35] 反直觉的 KOL 生态：百万粉丝头达带货能力不如邻家大妈 [20:18] 反直觉直播目标：注重内容和 branding, 看待 GMV 很佛系 [27:27] 算法和内容创作是 Tiktok 不同于其它电商的看家本领，管理层下了血本在美国赌直播 [30:35] 国内 MCN 出海的挑战：能够照搬的经验有限，深度本土化才是成功的关键 [35:00] 给国内出海品牌的建议：循序渐进的深耕品牌的宽度与深度 [39:38] 美国市场空间广阔，只要深耕任何赛道都有机会 本期人物 丁教 Diane，「声动活泼」联合创始人、「科技早知道」主播 Jessamine Dong， Founder and CEO of CreatoRev 幕后制作 监制：Yaxian 后期：Jack 运营：George 设计：饭团 商务合作 声动活泼商务合作咨询 (https://sourl.cn/6vdmQT) 一份新学期的礼物 这里有一份低到不太合理但大家都很爱的教育折扣——声动活泼付费会员 3 折，正价加入是 365 元，教育折扣 120 元，可以解锁总价值超过 208 元的付费节目和每周邮件通讯。 欢迎各位订阅，或是把这份教育折扣推荐给身边还在上学的小伙伴。点击这里查看详情。 加入我们 声动活泼正在招聘全职「节目监制」、「人才发展伙伴」、「商业发展经理」，查看详细讯息请 点击链接 (https://sourl.cn/j8tk2g)。如果你已准备好简历，欢迎发送至 hr@shengfm.cn， 标题请用：姓名+岗位名称。 关于声动活泼 「用声音碰撞世界」，声动活泼致力于为人们提供源源不断的思考养料。 我们还有这些播客：声动早咖啡 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/60de7c003dd577b40d5a40f3)、声东击西 (https://etw.fm/episodes)、吃喝玩乐了不起 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/644b94c494d78eb3f7ae8640)、反潮流俱乐部 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/5e284c37418a84a0462634a4)、泡腾 VC (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/5f445cdb9504bbdb77f092e9)、商业WHY酱 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/61315abc73105e8f15080b8a)、跳进兔子洞 (https://therabbithole.fireside.fm/) 、不止金钱 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/65a625966d045a7f5e0b5640) 欢迎在即刻 (https://okjk.co/Qd43ia)、微博等社交媒体上与我们互动，搜索 声动活泼 即可找到我们。 期待你给我们写邮件，邮箱地址是：ting@sheng.fm 声小音 https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/4931937e-0184-4c61-a658-6b03c254754d/gK0pledC.png 欢迎扫码添加声小音，在节目之外和我们保持联系。 Special Guest: Jessamine Dong.

VCommerce experts Matt Hodlofski & Nicolas Bailliache every Friday at 11am ET for a lively discussion on the latest developments shaping the #videocommerce and #liveshopping landscape. #vcommerceReceive weekly live shopping industry updates and tips in our newsletter: https://try.estreamly.com/newsletterSeason 2: EP13Holiday SeasonBattlbox: the power of videosWhatNot crossing $2b GMV!#1 liveshopping creator on TikTok About eStreamly: eStreamly enables shoppable livestreams & videos across platforms, including your website, social media, SMS, emails... Video become a direct ecommerce extension with in-video checkout, boasting a 10-15% conversion rate. Fast and reliable, it's your payment, your inventory, your ecommerce. https://hubs.ly/Q02qJNmM0About Matt: He has over 25 years of vcommerce experience within product marketing and sales. He currently is a partner at e6 marketing, a firm that help brands to go on QVC/ HSN#curated #videocommerce news of the week #ecommerce #retail

Welcome to Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, sponsored by Scratch Event DJs, Ownit AI, and Mirakl. In today's Retail Daily Minute:Amazon Enhances Visual Search Features: Amazon introduces new AI-powered visual search tools, making it easier for shoppers to find products quickly and accurately, while increasing global visual search queries by 70%.Whatnot Thrives in Livestream Shopping: Whatnot's livestream marketplace, popular among collectors, reaches $2 billion in GMV, driven by collectibles and expanding into new categories like fashion and electronics.Walmart Expands Cancer Care Benefits: Walmart broadens its Cancer Centers of Excellence (COE) program, offering associates access to comprehensive cancer care through a collaboration with Mayo Clinic, with no out-of-pocket costs for eligible associates.Stay informed with Omni Talk's Retail Daily Minute, your source for the latest and most important retail insights. Be careful out there!

Most used car dealers in the U.K. get their stock from auctions, and one startup is moving the process online to make it easier for both car owners and car dealers. This week, Becca and special co-host Kirsten are talking with Harry Jones, the co-founder of Motorway, a U.K. startup helping professional car dealers to bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale. Motorway has seen rapid success, with a car sold every three minutes and a GMV of £2.2 billion last year. In this episode, Becca, Kirsten and Harry chat about the importance of focusing on a core market and how he and his co-founders built a strong and lasting partnership.00:00 - Introduction and overview of Motorway03:03 - Early days and initial ideas for Motorway05:50 - Pivot to its current model08:08 - Working with dealerships10:18 - U.S. vs U.K. and market focus15:05 - Initial traction, challenges and demand from dealers25:39 - The co-founding team and their long-term collaboration30:31 - Lessons learned from previous companies 36:04 - Motoway's futureFound posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcast: Equity . Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each week.Connect with us:On TwitterOn InstagramVia email: found@techcrunch.com Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcast: Equity . Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each Connect with us:On TwitterOn InstagramVia email: found@techcrunch.com

本期节目我们邀请到了王佳音mia，她大学毕业后勇闯纽约时尚圈，成为「维多利亚的秘密」第一位亚裔买手，2014年回国加入小红书，成为小红书第24号员工、电商部门的2号员工，搭建起家居/时尚两大月GMV过亿的新品类，2016年她作为联合创始人&CEO，加入专为亚洲女性打造的设计师运动服品牌「maia active」，去年10月安踏收购「maia active」业务，mia成功创业上岸。从传统时尚行业买手，到互联网内容公司早期员工，到新消费浪潮创立品牌，再到经济形势趋于保守时，将品牌卖给大公司，mia的每一步都充满了时代的特性。每一步行动背后她的思考是什么？她面临着哪些时代机遇呢？作为拥有多个社会角色的女性创业者，她又有过哪些苦恼与挣扎呢？节目中，同为INTJ的两位“米娅”，一拍即合，多次灵魂碰撞。对话开始，mia介绍了自己如何从校园直接加入维密，作为实习生以优异的表现转正，在维密工作期间，mia逐渐意识到作为亚洲人在白人公司中的职业天花板，这促使她开始考虑自己的长远发展，她看到了小红书作为互联网内容公司的巨大潜力，并抓住机会加入小红书。在小红书工作时，mia经历了公司从二十几人到六七百人的高速发展过程。在小红书工作期间，她观察到了国内消费者对高品质、个性化瑜伽服的需求缺口，以及小红书势不可挡的内容流量红利。于是她加入「maia active」，开始了7年创业之旅。在谈及女性在职场中的挑战时，miya和mia都认为女性应该充分发挥自己的优势，如细腻的情感、敏锐的直觉和强大的沟通能力，在面对挫折和失败时，要拥有超强“普信”心理 。现在，mia创业上岸，即将开启第二次生命，她又会遇见什么样的新风景呢？更多精彩，欢迎收听本期节目哟～～--时间戳-- 01:39 一个理科生女孩去维秘做买手；05:47 闯纽约时尚圈，亚裔绝对拥有优势；10:46 很难再有“i own this world”的兴奋状态；14:21 受到两个刺激，决定回国；22:47 加入小红书，踩在互联网的风口浪尖上；33:08 即便是能力超强打工人，也会碰到天花板；36:25 瑜伽服创业，借势内容生态的流量红利；41:12 好几次要挺不过去了！45:28 从0到1，撸起袖子干！50:39 INTJ的“铁石心肠”；59:08 被选中为时代的幸运儿，做个生活的观察者；01:06:02 我就静静地看你怎么物化我；01:09:11 什么在阻止女性拥有自信心？01:13:05 凭我们的能力很难把品牌带到更大更远的地方；01:20:10 人生最大的苦恼是认为世界围着我转；01:28:13 女儿带来的慰藉与爱；01:38:42 第一次生命与第二次生命；--本期团队-- 主播 / miya嘉宾 / mia后期剪辑 / 木木制作人 / 祎雯视觉设计 / 双仔--号外号外--11月1日至11月3日，声量OUT在浙江·宁波·余姚·玉兔岛再度开启。诚邀各位上岛做“野声动物”，一起撒野，在「大内夜市」小程序搜索「声量OUT」即可报名。--本节目由深夜谈谈 MidnightNetwork出品—-深夜谈谈播客网络旗下播客：大内密谈、枕边风、空岛、随便聪明、淮海333-你还可以在这里找到我们：小红书：@miya 、@深夜谈谈子微博：@枕边风theuglytruth微信：枕边风theuglytruth-商务合作邮箱：biz@midnightalks.com-加听众群：加深夜谈谈子微信（微信号: aidanei17301214531）并回复【听众群】即可进群。

Noah Tucker is the founder of Social Snowball, an automated affiliate and referral marketing platform for e-commerce that drives significant revenue for over 2,000 brands, including Solawave, Obvi, and Javy Coffee.In this episode of the DTC POD, Noah shares powerful strategies for brands to supercharge their affiliate programs and drive significant revenue growth. He covers how to find and choose the right influencers, why it's important to keep the activation process as smooth as possible, what brands can do to keep affiliates engaged, and how to measure the success of an affiliate program.Interact with other DTC experts and access our monthly fireside chats with industry leaders on DTC Pod Slack.On this episode of DTC Pod, we cover:1. The Evolution of Affiliate Marketing2. Affiliate Marketing Challenges Faced by Brands3. Affiliate Discovery, Activation, and Engagement4. Affiliate Program Commissions5. Attribution in Affiliate Marketing6. Affiliate Marketing Trends and Future OutlookTimestamps00:00 Evolution of the meaning of “affiliate” in e-commerce05:07 Challenges brands face when running an affiliate marketing program07:32 Strategies for affiliate activation: engagement flow and tier structures11:52 Things that get influencers interested in working with a brand15:09 Optimal affiliate marketing commission rates15:49 How to choose the right influencer for affiliate partnership19:18 Strategies for finding and recruiting affiliate partners23:11 How to measure the success of an affiliate program25:03 Affiliate marketing trends and future outlook29:05 Attribution in affiliate marketing; a tool that prevents coupon code leaks33:11 Key initiatives of Social SnowballShow notes powered by CastmagicPast guests & brands on DTC Pod include Gilt, PopSugar, Glossier, MadeIN, Prose, Bala, P.volve, Ritual, Bite, Oura, Levels, General Mills, Mid Day Squares, Prose, Arrae, Olipop, Ghia, Rosaluna, Form, Uncle Studios & many more.  Additional episodes you might like:• #175 Ariel Vaisbort - How OLIPOP Runs Influencer, Community, & Affiliate Growth• #184 Jake Karls, Midday Squares - Turning Your Brand Into The Influencer With Content• #205 Kasey Stewart: Suckerz- - Powering Your Launch With 300 Million Organic Views• #219 JT Barnett: The TikTok Masterclass For Brands• #223 Lauren Kleinman: The PR & Affiliate Marketing Playbook• ​​​​#243 Kian Golzari - Source & Develop Products Like The World's Best Brands-----Have any questions about the show or topics you'd like us to explore further?Shoot us a DM; we'd love to hear from you.Want the weekly TL;DR of tips delivered to your mailbox?Check out our newsletter here.Projects the DTC Pod team is working on:DTCetc - all our favorite brands on the internetOlivea - the extra virgin olive oil & hydroxytyrosol supplementCastmagic - AI Workspace for ContentFollow us for content, clips, giveaways, & updates!DTCPod InstagramDTCPod TwitterDTCPod TikTok  Noah Tucker - Founder of Social SnowballBlaine Bolus - Co-Founder of CastmagicRamon Berrios - Co-Founder of Castmagic

Selling on Amazon is rough, being an agency is even harder.Here's how my journey beganThe first client I signed 6.5 years ago is still with me todayI got them off a LinkedIn post and within 48 hours they signedThey were stuck at 4k a month in salesWithin 90 days I got them to 83k a month in salesYears later, they are doing 1-mil a month in salesHere's how I did it:A lot of catalog workI loaded about 100 template files to Amazon in under 90 days for one brand.Why? Because they had UPC issues, and 84 products to launch.I cleared every single UPC issue (hijacked by the Chinese)I registered 5 of their brands, build brand stores, and setup the SEOI was almost in tears trying to fix the template issues and hired an assistant by week 2. I really doubt I made money on this client in the first 90 days. But I gave it my heart and soul.It's become a rallying cry for me. And this client has become a loyal part of my 400 brand portfolio.Today I manage 800+ million on GMV on Amazon.P.S. I had 0 design skills and made a brand store then shot a YouTube clip about how I made a brand store and it got 250,000 views on YT generating me more clients than any other activity I've ever done. If I can do it, so can you! (Make content)#AmazonSales #EcommerceGrowth #AmazonSEO #PPCStrategies #MyAmazonGuy → Use Data Dive with code MAG for exclusive savings!↳ https://2.datadive.tools/subscription/subscribe?ref=otkxnwu&coupon=MAG-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Join My Amazon Guy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28605816/Follow us:Twitter: https://twitter.com/myamazonguyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenpopemag/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/myamazonguys/Please subscribe to the podcast at: https://podcast.myamazonguy.comApple Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-amazon-guy/id1501974229Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4A5ASHGGfr6s4wWNQIqyVwTimestamps:00:00 - Introduction to My Amazon Guy00:17 - Challenges Faced by Initial Client00:43 - Strategies Implemented for Growth01:16 - Client Success Story and Methodologies01:49 - Offering Free Amazon Brand Audits02:12 - Main Image Optimization and CTR Hack02:41 - Importance of Traffic and Conversion03:16 - Understanding Customer Avatar03:30 - The Power of Specific Marketing03:50 - Success of My Amazon Guy Agency04:04 - OutroSupport the Show.

Today, we are breaking down the South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang. If we ran through the taxonomy of investor interests, this Coupang conversation checks many boxes on that list. It is a founder-owned and operated business, a business that went through a massive pivot years into existence, a business that's replicating the Amazon model to success, and a business with healthy debates on the TAM & financial trajectory going forward. Our guest today is Drew Cohen from Speedwell Research. We want Business Breakdowns to be the most efficient way for you to learn about a company, so we pack that information as densely as possible into about an hour of each episode, but if you are itching for more on Coupang, check out Drew's full report at speedwellresearch.com. Please enjoy this Breakdown of Coupang. Register for the Business Breakdowns x Founders Conference. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ----- This episode is brought to you by Public: Invest in stocks, bonds, options, crypto, and more in one place. A High-Yield Cash Account is a secondary brokerage account with Public Investing, member FINRA/SIPC. Funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn a variable interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance. Neither Public Investing nor any of its affiliates is a bank. US only. Learn more at public.com/disclosures/high-yield-account. ----- Business Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Business Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Follow us on Twitter: @JoinColossus | @ReustleMatt | @domcooke | @zbfuss  Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Show Notes (00:00:00) Welcome to Business Breakdowns (00:04:52) An Overview of Coupang (00:07:49) Coupang's Founder Story (00:10:46) The Pivot to Amazon Model (00:13:49) Coupang's Logistics and Delivery Innovations (00:17:32) Coupang's Market Position and Competition (00:25:24) Consumer Behavior and Market Dynamics (00:34:15) Understanding Gross Margins and GMV (00:36:48) Operating Leverage and Logistics Infrastructure (00:38:06) Future Growth and Market Expansion (00:41:30) Advertising and Brand Dynamics (00:48:59) Competitive Landscape and Risks (00:56:12) Valuation and Market Perception (00:59:15) Key Lessons from Coupang's Success

La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Cara A: -Patrocinio y colaboración con GMV, la empresa tecnológica que cumple 40 años (8:00) -La sonda Magallanes detecta actividad volcánica en Venus (10:45) -Estaremos en Valencia el 6/7, Festival OWN. Fecha límite el domingo (47:45) -La galaxia JADES-GS-z14-0, la más lejana observada por el JWST (51:00) Este episodio continúa en la Cara B. Contertulios: Francis Villatoro, Héctor Socas. Imagen de portada realizada con Midjourney. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace... y a veces ni eso.

EP319 - Amazon Q1 2024 Recap http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Episode Summary: In this episode, Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg and Scot Wingo dive deep into Amazon's first quarter results for 2024, analyzing the company's performance in various segments such as retail, offline and online sales, marketplace, AWS, and advertising. They also explore the impact of AI on Amazon's business and provide insights into the company's future guidance for Q2 2024. Amazon Q1 2024 Earnings Release Amazon Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript In our latest episode, Jason and Scott cover a range of topics, starting with their reflections on recent events such as May the 4th and Cinco de Mayo. Jason shares intriguing stories from his extensive travels and interactions with listeners worldwide. Scott delves into the intersection of e-commerce and the auto industry, honing in on Carvana. The duo also delves into the U.S. Department of Commerce retail indicators data, shedding light on trends in retail sales and e-commerce growth. The conversation pivots towards Amazon's recent earnings report, contextualizing it within the realm of AI investments by tech giants like Meta and Alphabet, offering valuable industry insights and analysis. The discussion continues with a focus on Amazon's earnings report, zooming in on concerns around AWS amid heightened competition from Alphabet and Azure. The rising trend of AI investments, particularly in data training applications, is explored, alongside the growing popularity of open source AI models due to cost and privacy considerations. Despite a conservative Q2 guidance, Amazon impresses with robust revenue that surpasses Wall Street expectations, particularly in operating income. The retail segment shows exceptional growth, exceeding operating income estimates for both domestic and international divisions. Notably, Amazon's performance in brick-and-mortar stores, spearheaded by Whole Foods, demonstrates resilience with a 6.3% growth rate. AWS stands out with a 17% growth, dispelling market share concerns and showcasing accelerated revenue growth, illustrating Amazon's continuous growth potential and innovation prowess. Scott delves deeper into Amazon's positive quarterly earnings report, emphasizing the remarkable revenue performance, especially in operating income. Insights are shared on Amazon's successful agnostic approach to LLM models and the potential advancements in generative AI. The conversation shifts towards the burgeoning ads business at Amazon, underlining its profitability and future growth prospects. Scot also outlines Amazon's Q2 guidance and the potential impacts of consumer spending patterns on the retail sector, including concerns about changing consumer behaviors and economic pressures shaping market dynamics. Jason complements the discussion with additional perspectives on consumer behavior and economic influences reshaping the market landscape. Furthermore, we embark on a detailed exploration of supply chain logistics, with a spotlight on Amazon's expansion into third-party logistics services, revolutionizing traditional retail strategies by sharing proprietary capabilities for wider adoption. Insights from Andy Jassy shed light on Amazon's logistics business approach. The conversation expands to include how companies like Spiffy are embracing a similar model of sharing proprietary products to drive innovation and revenue growth, showcasing an evolving landscape of retail innovation. The podcast unpacks the complex world of grocery retail, highlighting Amazon's experimental forays like Just Walk Out technology and the Amazon Dash cart, while examining the challenges in delineating Amazon's grocery sector strategy. A comparison is drawn between Amazon's strategies and those of rivals like Walmart and Target, who are adapting their product offerings to match evolving consumer preferences, offering a comprehensive view of the dynamic retail and supply chain management sphere. Dive into our engaging discussion, explore retail dynamics, and keep a lookout for more insightful content. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 319 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday, May 5th, 2024. Chapters 0:23 The Jason and Scott Show Begins 2:56 World Travel Adventures 5:53 Commerce Tools Elevate Show 6:53 Jason's World Tour Plans 7:22 Where in the World is Retail Geek? 20:43 Amazon's First Quarter Earnings 23:23 Sandbagging Strategy 26:45 Amazon's Dominance in E-commerce 27:44 Online Segment Growth Analysis 28:53 Offline Store Segment Analysis 31:35 Spotlight on AWS Performance 34:32 Data at AWS 42:02 Gen AI Revenue Growth 46:24 Consumer Pressure 49:56 Supply Chain Evolution 53:46 Leveraging Technology 58:08 Disruption in E-commerce 1:01:54 Amazon's Grocery Strategy 1:05:01 Retail Industry News Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scott Show. This is episode 319 being recorded on Sunday, May 5th, 2024. I'm your host, Jason Retail Guy Goldberg, and as usual, I'm here with your co-host, Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:37] Hey, Jason, and welcome back, Jason and Scott Show listeners. It's been a while, but first, happy Cinco de Mayo, and also a belated May the 4th, Jason. Did you have a good Star Wars day? Jason: [0:49] I did. I did. I feel like Star Wars Day always makes me think of the podcast because I feel like we have spent many of them in my latter life together. Scot: [1:01] Yeah, absolutely. Any exciting new Star Wars experiences or merch? Jason: [1:08] No, I understand you got some vintage merch. merch. Scot: [1:13] It's not, but they, back when I was a kid, you would go and if you went every week to, I think it was Burger King, you would for the, I think it was Empire. I have the Empire right here. So definitely Empire, but you would get a glass. Now it turns out these were full of lead paint, which would kill you, but that was the downside. Jason: [1:32] Not recommended for drinking. Scot: [1:33] You got a very, yes, I never, being a collector, I never drank out of them. So that's good. Jason: [1:37] Saved your life right there. Scot: [1:38] Yes, but I did drink out of the Tweety Bird. So that me, me. I'm sure I got some yellow lead paint from a twitty bird glass. Anyway, so they came out with a Mandalorian kind of homage to those glasses and they were at the Hallmark store of all places, not where I usually hang out, but I got to go to a Hallmark store and the little ladies that worked there were, I wish them all an awesome May the 4th. And they looked at me like I was from another planet and it was hilarious. My wife's like, stop, they don't know what you're doing. Jason: [2:07] Wait, they didn't have a big May 4th section in the Hallmark store? Scot: [2:11] They did. The little ladies didn't know. Jason: [2:13] The overlap of people that still buy Papyrus cards and celebrate May 4th is probably not great. Scot: [2:21] It was very humbling. It was a humble May the 4th, but I got my glasses and I was happy. I'm happy for you. And then tonight we had tacos for dinner, so I'm hitting all the holidays. Jason: [2:30] I feel like we should have tacos for dinner every night, whether it's Cinco de Mayo or not, but I'm i am happy for that. Scot: [2:35] We do have a lot of tacos but this was a special single denial edition. Jason: [2:42] Well, very well done, my friend. Scot: [2:44] Thanks. Well, listeners of the pod have been all over me. They're like, why aren't you recording? And I said, it's not me. It's Jason. It's Jason. Because you have been traveling Scot: [2:55] the earth, spreading retail geek goodness. Tell us, we are way far behind on trip updates and all the different countries. It's like you're playing, do you have like a little travel bingo where you're just like punching, what is it, 93 countries? Jason: [3:09] I do. They call it a passport. Oh, nice. Yes. Scot: [3:13] That, uh, little book that you get to carry. Yeah. Jason: [3:15] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have been on a lot of trips and it sounds like you and I may be telling complimentary lies because I also, I've had an opportunity to meet a lot of listeners in the last, we'll call it seven weeks and which they're always super nice. And it's always super fun to talk to people. And obviously they're, you know, strangers recognize my voice in line at Starbucks at all these e-commerce shows. And then we strike up a conversation. And then the next question is always, where the heck is Scott? Because they're always disappointed to meet me and not you. And now the new thing is, and why aren't you producing more frequent shows? And my answer is always that you're dominating the world at Get Spiffy and that you're too busy. Scot: [4:00] Uh-huh. I see. Okay. Jason: [4:02] Well, we're both very busy. Scot: [4:05] You're traveling more than I am. I'm busy washing cars. Jason: [4:08] Yes. I think both are fairly true, but I did finish a grueling seven-week stint where I got to come home a couple of times on the weekends, but I basically had seven weeks of travel back to back. In my old life, that would not have been that atypical, but post-pandemic, The travel has been a little more moderate. And I have noticed that I have my travel muscles have atrophied and I don't really want to redevelop. Jason: [4:35] So the seven weeks was a lot. Please don't ask me for trip reports for all the commerce events because I kind of can't remember some of them. They're all a little bit of a blur. But I was at Shop Talks, I think, since the last time we talked, which is, of course, probably the biggest show in our industry. And that was a very good show. I did get to see a lot of our mutual friends and a lot of fans of the show there. So that was certainly fun. And maybe in another podcast, we can do a little recap of some of the interesting things that came out of Shop Talk. I did produce a couple of recaps in other formats for work clients, so we could certainly pull something together. I also went to a vendor show. One of the e-commerce platforms out there is called Commerce Tools, and they had their annual customer show, which is called Elevate in Miami. So I got a chance to go visit there. They're one of the commerce platforms that I would say is winning at the moment in the kind of pivot away from the old school monoliths to these new sort of SaaS-based solutions. And commerce tools in particular are kind of pioneers in pushing this actual certification around a more modern earned stack that they they coined mock. And I think I think we've had Kelly from from commerce tools on the on the podcast Jason: [5:51] in the past to talk about that. But that was a good show. I got to meet a lot of listeners there. And a funny one, several listeners were like. Jason: [5:59] I would apologize for the, the, our publishing schedule lately. And they're like, I'm cool with it. I like that. Like you don't do a show if there's not something worthwhile. And then, you know, when I do get a show, it's like a treat. So I don't know if they're being honest or not, but that made me feel a little better about some of our, our, our Tardis shows lately. So those, those were good events. I also spent a week in India with some clients and that super interesting, a lot of commerce activity going on there, a lot of different market dynamics than here. So that's kind of intellectually pretty fun to learn about and see what's working there that might be working here or what, you know, why things tend to play out differently there. So that's interesting. And then I have a lot more international trips booked right now. Jason: [6:48] So coming up, I'm going to Barcelona, London, Paris, and Sao Paulo. So if anyone either has any favorite retail experiences in any of of those cities, please send them my way. I'll be doing store visits in all those cities. And if you're based in any of those cities, also drop me a line. Hopefully we can do some meetups while I'm out there. Scot: [7:07] Cool. It's Jason's world tour. You can do a little pod while you're there. Jason: [7:12] We have done a bunch of international pods in the distant past. I remember hotel rooms in South Korea and all over the place, Jason: [7:19] Japan that we've, we've cut shows from. So, so totally could. Scot: [7:23] Yeah. We'll have to do it. Where in the world is retail geek? That could be the theme song. I just sampled that. Jason: [7:30] Yeah. So besides cleaning the world's cars, what have you been up to, Scott? Scot: [7:35] Well, it's kind of funny. My worlds are colliding. So a lot of the analysts that you and I know from the e-commerce world are creeping into the auto world and their gateway drug is Carvana. So in the world of retail, we have Amazon, obviously. Well, Carvana is kind of Amazonifying used cars. They had a bit of a drama kind of situation. They were the golden child of online cars. And then they totally pooped the bed. They did this acquisition. They loaded up with debt. And then after, I think it was 21. So they had a good COVID. They surged. And then the debt got in front of them. Used car prices bop around and they kind of like got in an open door situation where they had bought a lot of cars for more than they were worth suddenly. And then they plummeted and everyone thought they were going out of business, but they have had a resurgence. So it's causing a lot of the internet analysts to now pick up auto tech or mobility or whatever you want to call it. So it was fun. I got to do a live chat with Nick Jones. He's been a friend of the show. I don't think we've had him on due to some compliance stuff that his company has rules around, but he's at this firm JMP and it was kind of wild to talk about, with someone about both Amazon and what we're doing at Spiffy, which is basically a lot of Amazon principles applied to car care. So it was interesting to have someone reach out and say, hey, I think this is a thing. And everyone tells me I should talk to you about it. And I was like, oh, yeah, I would love to. So it's kind of fun. Jason: [9:01] That's very cool. And isn't it also a thing, I think half the vehicles on the road are now owned by Amazon. So I assume that's an overlap too. too? Scot: [9:09] Yeah, not half, but a lot are. The number of last mile delivery vehicles are very, very large. And we work with a lot of them, so it's kind of fun. I started spiffy somewhat to get away from Amazon and still all I can talk about. Nope. So embrace it. I love Amazon. Love me some Amazon, Jason. Jason: [9:29] I'm glad you do. I love them too, but I feel like I spend most of my career You're unsuccessfully helping people compete with them. Scot: [9:38] Hey, got to play one side of the coin. It's a gig. You're going to be more like them or how to fight them. Jason: [9:43] It's a gig. It is indeed. Yeah. Scot: [9:46] Cool. I thought we are going to talk about some Amazon news. But before we jump in, you have done your magic with your data analysis interns. And I'm sure there's an LLM and an AI thrown in there. Let's start with some of the things you're seeing in commerce trends from the data that's out there. Jason: [10:07] Yeah. So as everyone knows, I have a little bit too much of an infatuation with the U.S. Department of Commerce retail indicators data. And these guys, you know, publish monthly estimates of retail sales in a bunch of categories. And, you know, we've talked about this many times on the show, but broadly over the last several years have been really interesting in retail. 2020, 2021, and 2022 were the greatest three years in the history of retail. Like we mailed like $6 trillion in economic stimulus. People didn't travel or go to restaurants as much. And so we sold way more goods than ever before. And so those three years, retail grew respectively at like 8%, 14%, and 9%. The 20 years prior, retail averaged about 4% a year in growth. So normally pre-pandemic, you'd expect 4% growth. We had these three, you know, wildly pandemic influence years where we grew really fast. And then last year we finished a little below 4%. So, so we were around, I want to say it was like 3.6%. So it was growth. It would, it would have been in line with pre-pandemic growth, but it certainly felt like a significant deceleration from those heady pandemic years. And so, you know, people are super interested to see how does 2024 play out? Does it? Jason: [11:32] Kind of return to pre-pandemic levels, like what is the new normal? Jason: [11:37] And we now have the first quarter's data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, and I would call it kind of a mixed bag. If you just look at the raw retail data that the U.S. Department of Commerce publishes, they're going to tell you that retail grew in the first quarter 2.8%. So that's a little anemic, right? Compared to historical averages, that's not a great growth rate. Most of the practitioners that follow this podcast care about a particular subset of retail that the National Retail Federation has dubbed core retail. And so the National Retail Federation pulls gas and automobiles sales out of that number. And gas is a decent size number and it's very volatile based on the commodity prices of gas. And auto is a huge number that has, as you're well familiar, its own idiosyncrasies. And so that's how they justify taking those two out. And if you take those two out and you get this core retail number, retail in the first quarter grew 3.9%. So kind of to align with how the NRF talks about retail, we'll say Q1 overall was 3.9%, which is very in line with the pre-pandemic historic average. So disappointing by pandemic standards, but kind of traditionally what we would expect. Jason: [13:05] What is unique in that number is. Jason: [13:09] That it's very bifurcated. There are clear winners and losers, both by categories and specific practitioners. So if you break down the categories, e-commerce is the fastest growing chunk of retail. I'm sure we'll talk more about that. Restaurants were the next fastest growing categories. And categories like mass merchants and healthcare providers outperform that industry average, every other segment of retail underperformed the industry average. So things like furniture stores did the worst, building materials did really poorly, gas stations did very poorly, electronics did poorly, and side note, electronics have been the worst performer since the pandemic, which is kind of interesting and challenging. So you've had this weird couple categories doing really well, a bunch of categories doing really poorly. And then within the categories even, if you look at the public company's individual earnings calls, what you tend to see is a couple of big players performing really well in overall retail, that's Amazon and Walmart. And then a lot of other retailers really struggling. So that even that's like in general merchandise, it's Amazon and Walmart that are lifting the boats. And it's folks like Target traditionally that have performed really well are actually struggling at the moment. So the average is kind of hard to follow at the moment. Jason: [14:37] But that is kind of how things play out. And then we have some preliminary e-commerce data, but the actual Q1 e-commerce number that the U.S. Department of Commerce publishes will publish on May 17th. So that's 12 days from now. Jason: [14:53] And crunching the numbers that we have available at the moment, that growth is likely to come in at somewhere between 8% and 10%. I'm guessing more like 8% or 9% growth. And so that also is twice as good as overall retail, and it's more than twice as good as brick-and-mortar retail. But that is noticeably slower than the historic e-commerce growth rates pre-pandemic. So kind of file those two numbers away. The overall retail industry is growing at 3.9%. The overall e-commerce industry is growing at about 9%. And then we have our friends at Amazon that dropped their earnings announcement just before May 4th so that they could celebrate May 4th, I think. Scot: [15:39] Yeah, yes, that's a good setup. And without further ado, let's talk about Amazon's fourth quarter. It wouldn't be a Jason Scott show without a little bit of... Scot: [16:01] That's right. On April 30th, Amazon announced their first quarter results. And the setup coming into these, so you had the data you talked about, but like to drill in a little bit. We had Meta, the artist formerly known as Facebook, and Alphabet, the artist previously known as Google. They announced and they both basically told Wall Street, AI is the cat's pajamas and we're going to spend anywhere between $10 and $40 billion of capital expenditures on it, meaning NVIDIA chips. So it turns out the way to play all this is basically buying NVIDIA. So hopefully you bought some NVIDIA stock. Maybe this is not a stock recommendation or when it's too late, so... And also don't take stock recommendations from podcasters. Anyway, so there was all this angst and people were a little freaked out coming into the Amazon results because Meta was down like pretty substantially, 20 to 30 percent. And Alphabet was also up substantially. You also had Microsoft come in there and they really crushed it. Their Azure is really lighting it up with AI. And they announced that they were going to invest a lot. And there's this rumor that a $100 billion project, it's got a name like Starship or something, but it's not Starship. Spaceship? Stardust? I don't know what it is. But it's going to be this mega data center, and they literally can't find a place to put it because it's going to consume so much power. So they're going to have to maybe build a nuclear plant next to it or some wacky thing. Scot: [17:31] Anyway, that was the setup. up. So coming in, Wall Street was very, very concerned about Amazon's AWS division, which is their cloud computing. Because if Alphabet is building out their infrastructure, and so is Azure, that's the two biggest competitors for AWS. And is AWS getting its fair share? And is it going to announce that it's going to have to go build some $40 billion kind of a thing? Also, another Another thing, and I'm kind of curious on if you're seeing this with your clients, but in the, I follow this, you know, the AI, you can't do much without seeing AI everywhere. But the part I'm most interested in is what are big enterprises spending money on? This is like your Fortune 500s. They're all experimenting and really getting into it. And where they're finding a lot of good use cases is training on their data. So they'll say, you know, hey, I'm Publisys. How many documents do you think are inside of Publisys? I don't know, 8 trillion documents. Documents and you know wouldn't it be helpful just the ones I created and who is this retail geek and he's he's created uh you know 90 of those and you know so you know imagine you're starting new at publicists you're gonna be like where do I start going through some of these documents for us and if you had a chat bot that was like hey I've read all that you know I can navigate you through everything that's been published or you know whatever I'm certainly you. Scot: [18:50] Providing a very big metaphor, certainly be more divisional and all this kind of stuff. But that's where big companies are spending the bulk is they're taking their data in whatever format it's in, be it a relational database, a PDF, whatever it is, they're trying to train it. They don't want it to go up into the, they don't want to train the LLM so that other people get the benefit of that and can see any confidential data. So that's really important. So it needs to be gated in these types of things. Because of that use case, open AI is not great because people are very worried. A, it's very expensive and it's only an API. So OpenAI hosts itself and you call it through an API. Scot: [19:25] Those API calls are very expensive. They're getting, as OpenAI has gotten more popular, there's more latency. It's taking forever to get answers out of this thing. And a lot of people are very concerned that even though there's ways to call the API such that it's in a window and not being trained, that maybe it leaks in there. So because of all these elements, the open source models are becoming very popular. And right around the time Meta announced, they announced their Llama, which has become quite popular. And what's nice is you can host it wherever you want. And it's kind of like WordPress, where if you are a serious WordPresser, you can host it somewhere yourself, and you can kind of understand that. Otherwise, there's other people that will host it for you. But it has the nice feature of you're just getting the weights and whatnot, and it's it's pretty clear, it's pretty obvious, it's not training itself on your data. So a lot of people like it because it's quote unquote free. It's not an API usage based. It's a pay once to set it up, pay for some resources type thing and you're done. And it's also not going to train on the data. That's one of many. There's probably 10 or 20 pretty commercial grade open AIs out there. Scot: [20:38] Okay. So that's kind of the setup to get to the earnings. things. So from a big picture, this was a really good quarter. Asterix, the guide made Wall Street a little bit nervous. So- Scot: [20:53] And one of our research analysts just said it's Stargate, which is also a sci-fi series. They must have that on Prime Video or something. There's probably some callback there. Scot: [21:01] So they beat for the quarter Q1, but then they also kind of tell you what's going on the next quarter. Amazon doesn't provide fully your guidance. They just kind of give you a snippet. So when they report one quarter, a quarter, they then tell you what they think the next quarter is going to do. So Wall Street got a little bit ahead of its skis, and the guide for Q2 was below what Wall Street wants. So it wasn't what we'd call a beat and a raise, which is the current quarter was a beat and the next one they increased. It was a beat and a guide down. So that probably tampered Wall Street. But ever since Jassy came in, Andy Jassy, this has been his MO is to be pretty conservative because Wall Street's very much an expectation engine. And the more, if you can beat and tamp down expectations, it makes it, it's a little bit rougher in the short term from a stock price, but it makes next quarter better and then so on and so forth. So it's a smart way to manage the long-term vibe of the stock, the mindset, the expectations around your stock. Okay. So revenue came in at $143 billion versus Wall Street at $142. So pretty much in line. But most importantly, where Amazon really threw people off was on operating income. Yes, Amazon is profitable. This is the proxy for operating income. True Amazonians would tell you, no, it's cashflow. We can go into that, but this is kind of the way they report to Wall Street. So this is kind of the standard operating system, if you will. So this is what we're going to use, but it's a proxy for cashflow. Scot: [22:28] That was 15 billion for the quarter and Wall Street expected 11. Well, you know, 4 billion on a world of 143 doesn't sound like much, but between 11 and 15, that's a very material beat. What is that? Like 38%, something like that. Scot: [22:44] So that was a really nice surprise. And, you know, Amazon goes through these invest and harvest periods and everyone's been feeling like they're going to be back in investing which would mean they're going to start lowering operating income as they invest but it's actually kind of beating expectations, also this is the fifth quarter amazon has come in at the high end of its guidance or above its guidance since basically you know on operating income and that corresponds with when jassy came in so this is his mo right now is to kind of like beat and lower beat and lower you know exceed expectations tamp them down not get not get ahead of his skis and it's working really well. Jason: [23:24] Sandbagging for the win. I like it. Scot: [23:26] Yes, it is. Having run a public company, this is a lesson I learned painfully. So that's something we can talk about over beer sometime. Jason: [23:33] I will book that date. Yeah. And the retail business sort of followed in line with that. They had like some nice growth, but like the real standout number was the improvement in margins and the significant positive operating income from the retail segment. So I think the actual operating income from U.S. Retail was like $5 billion and the Wall Street expectations were 4.3. So again, that was another strong beat. Total revenue, which revenue is not the same thing as retail sales, as we've talked about on the show many times, that we would use GMV as a proxy for that. But revenue was $86.3 billion for the quarter, which I think was in line with the analyst expectations. Jason: [24:27] And I think this was the largest operating income that Amazon has ever reported for the retail business. So that was super interesting on the domestic side. Traditionally, domestic has done pretty well and international has been a money loser because, you know, they've been less mature. they've been investing a lot in growing international and they haven't had the same kind of margins. This was the first quarter that they reported positive operating income for the international division. So that's another super encouraging sign for investors that maybe they've kind of passed that inflection point on a lot of their international investments that they've made in the EU and Japan and the UK, which reminds me is not part of the EU anymore. Jason: [25:13] So so they kind of beat beat international expectations across the board on income. Revenues were lower. So revenues were like thirty one billion dollars, which was below expectation. Jason: [25:25] But they they earned like nine hundred million in operating income. And I want to say the the the Wall Street expectation was like six hundred million. So so again, like a 30 percent beat, which is pretty, pretty darn good. Good. They also, a bunch of analysts have, you know, taken these revenue numbers and they try to back into a GMV number. And I would say the bummer at the moment is there's a fair amount of variance in the estimates, like different analysts have different models. So I have kind of been putting to a model of the models together and trying to kind of find a midpoint. And like Like based on that, the Amazon's GMV globally probably went up 11.5% for the quarter. So if you're comparing this to other retailers or the U.S. Department of Commerce number, overall GMV went up 11.5%. The U.S. was stronger. So the U.S. probably went up at 12.2%. So again, we talked about core retail was up 3.9%. Well, Amazon U.S. GMV was up 12.2%. So, you know, three times faster growth than the retail industry overall. Jason: [26:39] And again, Amazon is mostly e-commerce, very little brick and mortar, Jason: [26:44] which we'll talk about in just a minute. But even if you're comparing Amazon to that e-commerce number, if e-commerce comes in at 8% or 9% and Amazon's at 12%, they're by far the largest e-commerce player out there and they're still substantially outgrowing the average, which, you know, is very impressive and should be very scary to every other competitor out there. Jason: [27:08] One analyst kind of put together an estimate of what they thought the earned income contribution from Amazon was for retail and ads together, pulling AWS out. And they had it at $27 billion in earned income if Amazon was just a retail with no AWS. And that puts them right in the ballpark of Walmart that spent off about $29 billion in earned income or operating income. I keep saying earned, but I mean operating income. So, so that is all pretty impressive and simultaneously super scary. Jason: [27:45] Scott, did you drill down into the online segment at all? Scot: [27:49] Yeah. And, you know, what I would tell listeners is picture a block diagram where you have this big, big rectangle, that's the whole Amazon entity. And, you know, so what we're going to do is talk about the segments. And the first segment is the biggest one, which is the retail business. And that, that's what you just. Jason: [28:04] Biggest and best. Wouldn't you say? Scot: [28:06] Coolest. Jason: [28:07] Coolest. All right. Scot: [28:08] Cool. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'll, you know, I don't know. Jason: [28:11] It is for you. Scot: [28:14] Um, I think the whole enchilada, I like the, the way they do this and I'm trying to replicate it. It's 50. We'll talk about that in a second. The, so then the, you know, so then another segment is AWS, another segment, I think marketplace should be in some segment, but they don't break it out. So it's just kind of in kind of hidden inside of the blob that is retail. So we tease some of that out here on the show. They purposely hide it in there. So no one knows how awesome it is, I think. And then they've got AWS ads and a couple other things, but we'll talk about this. So as you dig into the retail business, there's a couple of ways to look at it. You can look at it by domestic and international, which Jason just did, Scot: [28:50] or you can look at it by online and physical store. So the online biz grew 7% year over year, which if I remember your stats, well, you don't have it until may 17th so on may 17th we'll be able to know how that compared but probably the one you can compare is the offline biz which is the the store comp that they have, And Jason, you saw on that one, what'd you see? Jason: [29:16] Yeah, so physical stores grew 6.3%. So again, like, you know, when we say all of retail grew 3.9%, a big chunk of that's e-commerce. Brick and mortar probably grew at like two to 3%. So Amazon's brick and mortar growing at 6.3% is actually super impressive. And it's kind of interesting, you know, for several years, Amazon has had experiments in a bunch of retail formats. So they've had these Amazon Go stores, stores. They had Amazon five-star stores. They had bookstores. They had a fashion store. They're trying all these things. And of course, the biggest chunk of their stores is they own Whole Foods. And so offline stores for Amazon was kind of a mix of all these different concepts. In the last couple of years, they've kind of cleaned house and gotten rid of all those concepts. And so, you know, nominally there's a few of their own grocery stores called Amazon Amazon fresh open, but the vast majority of online offline retail for Amazon is, is Whole Foods. And for it to be growing at 6.3% in the current climate is, is a really good sign for Amazon. And, and I would say somewhat impressive, you know, on the earnings call, they, they announced that they're working up a new format for Whole Foods, which is a smaller format store that's It's going to open in Manhattan. So I have that on my ticker file to go visit when that's open. Jason: [30:38] You know, the whole grocery space for Amazon is super interesting, but maybe we'll talk about that a little bit more later. But I will call out, they did launch a service that there's been some controversy over. They launched a $9.99 a month grocery delivery service, which essentially lets you have all you can eat free grocery delivery to your home for an incremental fee of $9.99. And they're spinning that as, you know, a cool new grocery service and enable more people to shop for groceries online. And there are a lot of articles about it, like. Jason: [31:13] They used to have free grocery delivery included in your Prime membership, right? And so they've kind of like, I look at the big arc of all this and say, there used to be a lot more free services in Prime that they've kind of peeled out. Then they started charging for, and now they'll let you get it free again for another $120 a year. Jason: [31:32] So interesting things happening with grocery that we could probably talk more about later. But I'm kind of eager to dive into some of these other businesses like AWS. Scot: [31:42] Yeah. So that's the one that everyone was really waiting on the call to hear how it went. And good news, AWS exceeded expectations. Everyone thought it was going to grow 14% and it came in at 17%. And if Wall Street likes, they like a lot of things, they like beating expectations, that's important to them. But their favorite thing is ARG. And that is not a pirate day thing, ARG. It is Accelerating Revenue Growth. Wall Street loves that more than anything. And that's what they delivered for both the ads and the AWS part of the business. And what that means is that as the law of numbers kicks in, so back on the retail business, the only time we see that accelerate is in the fourth quarter and that seasonal acceleration, right? We've gotten used to that for decades now. It always happens in the fourth quarter and whatnot. So it's what you would expect. But this is quite unusual for a relatively mature business. This thing's $25 billion a quarter. So this is a $100 billion business that accelerated. And so that tells us that there is a lot more wood to chop here. It has not gotten near its addressable market. And it really allayed fears that they were losing massive market share because they're, quote unquote, behind on AI to Azure, which is Microsoft offering, and then the Google hosting solution as well. Scot: [33:05] That does not seem to be the case. So they did very well. So they came in at $25 billion and Wall Street was expecting $24.6. So that was really, that accelerating is what really made everyone very happy. And then the operating income came in at $9.5, way ahead of Wall Street at $7.5. So another pretty material 20% beat on this component at the bottom line. And this is really interesting. There was some really good language around this. And this has been Jassy's statement all along, and it's coming true. His early Amazon's early play was we're going to be agnostic on models and it's kind of like bring your own model we'll work with anything now with open AI they're not going to ever host open AI but they'll they're not going to stop you from working with it and then they for these open source ones they've made it very easy for you to spin up an AWS instance throw a little llama in there and I would make a llama noise if I I knew what they said I guess they make like a sheep sound. So you throw a little alarm in there and it does its thing. And, you know, the benefit of them being agnostic on these LLMs is most likely they have some or all of your data, right? Because they've been at this so long that if you're doing cloud computing versus on-prem, most likely a lot of, if not all of your data is in AWS. Extracting that data, you know, imagine you had terabytes or or what's the biggest, Scot: [34:31] bigger than terabytes? I always forget this one. Jason: [34:33] Petabytes. Scot: [34:34] Petabytes of data at AWS. They literally have a product that they can send a truckload of hard drives around and get your data. That's how much data there is that you could never push it across the internet, that there's so much data. So if they have that data and that's what you want to train on, you don't want to have the latency of the internet between your data and the training. So you'd really need the LLM to operate near your data. And this is what they predicted two or three years ago, kind of around the, the, the launch of chat gpt when all this stuff really started to accelerate and it's coming true so everyone feels a lot better about that then their body language this time a lot of times they were kind of like this is what we're doing and we're pretty sure it's going to work now they're like it's working and people really felt relief around this because everyone there was a set of people that believed it but then you know open ai's pitches nope our lm is going to be we're spending, billions of dollars we're going to be so far ahead none of these open source things are going to keep up. If you don't have us, you're going to be so far behind, you'll be like playing with crayons and everyone's going to be playing with quill pens. Scot: [35:42] So it was really good to see that this is not what's happening, that people are embracing, enterprises are embracing these open source models. They are in the same zip code performance-wise from results and much cheaper than OpenAI's offerings. And what Amazon said specifically was very positive around what is It's kind of abbreviated Gen AI for generative AI. And it's kind of a way to encapsulate this. And they said that it already is a multi-billion dollar run rate business. And you always have to parse what they say. So multi-billion can be anywhere between 1 and 9.9, right? And you'll see why I drew 9.9 there. Scot: [36:25] And inside, as part of that big AWS number, and they believe it can be rapidly tens of billions. Billions so they're basically saying it's not double digit billions so it's a single digit million which is where i get one to nine point nine but they basically hinted that that it is growing so rapidly inside of there that it's gonna be tens of billions and this is why they saw accelerating revenue growth which made everyone happy it wasn't just people you know moving some more you know loads on or something boring loads around relational databases or something it was the juicy ai stuff so this got everyone so lathered up that three analysts did price increases and they cited that this was one of the reasons the biggest price increase was from sig susquehanna and they put the price up to 220. At the time all this happened the stock was at 175 and today it's around 185 so it's been up nicely but 220 is a pretty big big you know even. Scot: [37:20] From where they expect that's where they're thinking i think most these guys look at a year to two years as a time horizon on these prices so and that's the the high i have you know again there's a wide range some people think it's going to go down some people think it's over price so go do your research this is not a stock recommendation but i just thought it was interesting that people get really really excited by by this whole gen ai largely the body language that, and it's, Amazon doesn't pound their chest much. So the fact they were, was kind of a new, new way of managing Amazon and Jassy's pretty conservative. So he must've felt pretty good about it, but also that they needed to ally, allay, allay, allay, whatever the right word is, get rid of these competitive concerns everyone's been talking about. Jason: [38:05] Yeah. It feels like a pretty big prize out there. Jassy and the whole team always talk, Just AWS, even before you get to Gen AI, they always remind everyone, hey, 85% of the workloads are still on-prem. So like this, as big as AWS looks, if the long-term future is 85% of the workloads are on the cloud and only 15% are on-prem, there's a lot of headroom still in AWS. And then, you know, you add this new huge demand for AI on top of all that. And like this, it's almost a limitless opportunity. And I want to tie the AI back to retail, though, for just a second, because there's another bit of news that I haven't seen covered very much, but is super interesting to me. Jason: [38:51] There's a particular flavor of AI out there, a subset of generative AI that's now being called agentic AI. And that's sort of a clever amalgamation of agent-based AI. And there's a very famous AI researcher, this guy, Andrew Ng. He's the founder of Coursera. He's done a bunch of things. He was the head of Google Big Think, which was one of the first significant AI efforts. And I want to say he was like on People Magazine's 100 most interesting people list in like 2013 as an AI researcher. So the dude's been around for a long time. He is one of the biggest advocates for this agentic AI. And the premise is that if you just ask an LLM, you take the best LLM in the world, and you ask it to do something for you, that's called zero shot. You give it an assignment, and you take the first result you get. It's a zero shot. You get pretty good results. But if you... Jason: [39:53] Turn that, that LLM into multiple agents and break the task up amongst those agents and potentially agents even running on different LLMs, you get wildly better results. Jason: [40:05] And so his, his research kind of showed that, Hey, if, if Jason goes write a PowerPoint presentation for his client, explaining what's going on in commerce. And I just give that to the turbo version of ChatGBT 4, I'll get a pretty good deck. But if I say, hey, I want to create four agents. I want to create a consultant to write the deck and a copywriter to edit the deck and an editor to improve the deck and three people to pretend to be mock customers to poke holes in the deck and have all those agents work on this assignment. I could give that assignment to chat gbt 3.5 and it would actually output a better work product than the the newer more advanced model was by by breaking the job into these chunks and so in retail you think about like this is the idea of assigning higher level jobs to shopping right so instead of saying like going to amazon and saying oh now it's a ai-based search engine and i'm going to type a long form query into search and get a better result. Jason: [41:09] The agentic AI approach is I'm just going to say to Amazon, never let me run out of ingredients for my kids' school lunches. And the agent's going to figure out what is in my school lunches and what my use rate is for those things and what weeks I have off from school and don't need a school lunch. And it's just going to do all those things and magically have the food show up. And this is a long diatribe, but the reason it's relevant is is this dude, Andrew Ng, was named the newest board member at Amazon three weeks ago. Scot: [41:40] Very cool. Jason: [41:40] I did not see that myself. Yeah. And so if you're wondering where Amazon thinks this is going, like this, in my mind, ties all this tremendous opportunity in generative AI and the financial opportunity in AWS directly to the huge and growing retail business that Amazon runs. Scot: [42:02] Very cool. Oh yeah. I had not seen that. So maybe Wall Street picked up on that. I'm sure. And maybe that was another part of the excitement. Jason: [42:09] Yeah. But all of that is just peanuts compared to the real good business in Amazon, which is the ads business. So again, you know, Amazon used to, to obfuscate their ads business. They've for a number of quarters now had to report it as earnings because it's in their earnings separately, because it's so material. And it was another good quarter for the ads business. It's hard to say whether it's actually accelerating growth or not, because the ads business is very seasonal. So the ad business grew 24.3% for the quarter versus Q1 of 2023. Q4 grew faster. So Q4 grew at 27%, but the 24% growth is much faster growth than other... Q1 year-over-year growth rate. So however you slice it, it's a good, robust growth rate. If you add the last four quarters together, you get $29 billion worth of ad sales. There's lots of estimates for how profitable ad sales are, but there's no cost of goods for an ad, right? Jason: [43:13] And so it's very high margin. So if you just assume, I think 60% gross margins is a very conservative estimate. But if you assume 60% gross margins, that means the ad business spun off $29.5 billion of operating income over the last 12 months. And to put that in comparison, AWS is big and profitable as it is, twice as much revenue at over $100 billion now, but it spun off like $23 billion in operating income. So the ad business is a much more meaningful contributor to Amazon's profits than even AWS. Jason: [43:51] And another way I've been starting to think about this is what percentage of the total GMV on the Amazon platform are the ads? And they are now 6.5%. So that's a very significant new tax. You know, as Amazon has hundreds of millions of SKUs available for sale, no one's ever going to find your SKU or buy it if you don't do some marketing on the platform for that SKU. And that's this 6.5% tax that Amazon's charging. And in the same way we said, hey, AWS is a really robust business. And then there's this thing called generative AI that can make it even huger. All of this ad revenue we're talking about is really coming from their sponsored product listings, which is like basic search advertising on the retail platform. Last quarter, Amazon said, by the way, we have this huge viewership streaming video service called Amazon Prime. And we're going to start putting ads in the lowest tier version of Amazon Prime. So unless you want to pay more, you're going to start seeing ads on Amazon Prime. And that's another huge advertising opportunity that hasn't been very heavily tapped yet. So the analysts are pretty excited about the upside of Amazon potentially tacking on another $6.5 billion in Prime video ads onto the $50 billion of search ads that they already have. Jason: [45:11] And so ads are a pretty good business to be in, which is why every other retailer is trying to follow suit with their own sort of version of a retail media network. Scot: [45:22] Cool. I imagine you get a lot of calls to talk about that. Jason: [45:25] Oh, yeah. I actually, I'm sick of talking about it. So one nice thing about working at an ad agency is there are now thousands of other experts. You know, I was one of the early guys in retail media networks. Now there are thousands of other experts that are way more credible than me. So I don't have to talk about it quite as much, but it still, still comes up in every conversation. Scot: [45:43] Very cool. All right. So then that was the basic gist of the corridor from a high level. And then it came to the what's going on in Q2. So that did come in lighter than folks expected, as I said, and they guided the top line to 144 versus 149. Let's call it 146 and change at the midpoint. They always do this range kind of thing when they're doing their guide. And Wall Street was at 150 consensus. So, you know, a tidge below two or three percent below where they wanted. But the operating income guide was above Wall Street. So they're kind of, we'll take it. Como si, como sa. Scot: [46:21] So that was, you know, I think Amazon tapping things down. Yeah. Now they did talk a lot about consumers being under pressure. So they said in the, it wasn't in a Q and a, it was in the prepared remarks and Jassy said it, which is kind of like the more important stuff. And I will say it's really nice to have the CEO of Amazon back on these calls because Bezos basically ditched them after, I don't know if, I think he came the first two quarters back in 97 but i honestly can't remember but he has not gone to the calls and jassy's been to them all so it's really nice to hear from the ceo and he answers very candidly i feel you know he doesn't feel as kind of like robotic as many ceos when they get on here because it is a stressful thing that you're going to say something wrong, but there was this exchange well first of all he he in his prepared remarks he talked about. Scot: [47:12] I forgot to put the exact language, but he said, we're seeing a lot of consumers trade down. So they're seeing, you know, we're seeing this in the auto industry. Tires is this huge thing where it's under a lot of pressure right now because people are just waiting. So there's a lot of this, you know, it's not showing up in the data that I've seen, but there's, you know, maybe the inflation data, but not the GDP and some of the other unemployment data. But it feels like the consumer is under a bit of pressure here, and they talk about that a lot in the prepared remarks. So I thought our listeners would find that interesting. Jason, before I go into this longish little thing that I wanted to just cover, what do you, did you pick up on any of that consumer stuff? Are you hearing that? Jason: [47:55] Oh, yeah, that's very common. And remember, in the beginning, I mentioned that there's this weird bifurcation that some retailers, even in categories, are doing well and others aren't. And some categories are doing well and others aren't. That's super complicated to get to the why. But the most obvious why is that consumers feel like they're under a lot of economic pressure and are trading down and are deferring certain types of purchases. The easiest way to see this is own brands and private label sales going up and, you know, national brand sales stagnating, see things like chicken protein going up and beef protein going down. You know, there's lots of examples out there, but the retailers that are best able to follow the consumer as she trades down are tending to do well. And the retailers that only cater to the luxury consumer, the super luxury is still doing fine. They're somewhat insulated. But the folks that haven't been as able to cater to the value consumer as much have struggled more. And the non-mandatory categories have struggled more. So Andy's comments exactly mirror what we're seeing going on in market dynamics and what other retailers are saying in their earnings. It is slightly weird because if you just look at the macros. Jason: [49:18] It's objectively, the consumer is doing pretty well. There's actually a lot of favorable things, but there's a ton of evidence that the consumer sentiment is that they're really worried about their household budget and are making, you know, hard, hard financial decisions. Scot: [49:36] Yeah. Yeah. It's tough out there. Well, hopefully it'll get better. So one of the questions I want to just kind of pull out some tidbits, because this has been a theme on our pod for a long time and I thought it was really, really interesting. And this is going to get into the weeds of supply chain and this kind of thing. So sorry if that's not your jam. We like to talk about logistics. Scot: [49:56] Side note to you, Jason, I saw that deep dive we did on Amazon logistics is still like our number one show and all the stats and stuff, which is kind of fun. So someone cares about it. Anyway, one of the friends of the podcast, Yusuf Squally asked a question. He's one of the analysts and he said, as it relates to logistics, so he's talking to andy on the call back in september you launched amazon supply chain can you help us understand the opportunity you see there where are you in the journey to build logistics as a service on a global basis and does that require a huge increase in capex a function increase in capex which means huge so jesse said this was a very long answer so i'm going to pull out two snippets you can go read the transcripts can you put a link to that in the show notes absolutely yep yeah so so i'm just gonna give you the the snippet the whole thing is worth reading but it would be like another 20 minutes to do that. But so Jassy starts out and says, I think that it's interesting what's happening with the business we're building in third party logistics. And it's really kind of in some ways mirror some of the other businesses we've gotten involved in AWS being an example. And even though they're very different businesses, and that we realized that we had our own internal need to build and launch these capabilities. Scot: [51:01] We figured that there were probably others out there who had the same needs we did and decided to build the services out of them so this is this model that really blows the minds of traditional retailers where you know so walmart has this huge data you know capability there's this this urban legend that they know when people are pregnant before they do they can see changes in their habits or they know who all is on weight loss drugs they they see your buying habits so intricately that they can do that that's a neat capability but they view it as proprietary and And that's old school thinking. Scot: [51:32] What Amazon does is says, well, that's a cool capability. Let's certainly someone else needs it. Let's open it up. This is one of my favorite things at Amazon. And it's so counterintuitive that in my current car world, I talk about this and everyone's like, why are you, we're doing it a lot at Spiffy. And they're like, well, why are you doing that? That's like your proprietary thing. And we're like, well, that's just how it should be. And like, this is a better way to do it. And it's really interesting that still today, Amazon's built what I say, $100 billion business out of AWS, which has used this and people are, are befuzzled by the whole thing. So I, I thought that was an interesting use case. And then he, he goes into some details there that are pretty obvious for our listeners, like how this is gonna work. But then he basically kind of brings it back around and then he says he wraps up and says, I would say that supply chain with Amazon is really an abstraction on top of each individual block services. And in those services, he talked about all the things that, that, you know, FBA and last mile delivery and buy with a prime. He talks about each of those kind of and how awesome they are. So he's basically saying Amazon supply chain wraps a bow around all that. And it gives this collective set of business services is growing significantly. Scot: [52:43] It's already what I would consider a reasonable size business. I think it's early days. It's not something we anticipate being a giant capital expense driver. So it's because they've already invested in all this that doesn't require additional capex. And then he finishes and says, we have to build a lot of the capabilities anyway to handle our own business. And we think it will be a modest increase on top of that to accommodate third-party sellers. Scot: [53:05] But our, there's a typo in the thing. Our third-party sellers find very high value in us being able to manage these components for them versus having to do it themselves. And they save money in the process. So I thought that was a really interesting, interesting. So they're really leaning into this supply chain. I think that ultimately they'll open this up to more consumers where you can send Aunt Gertrude in Detroit something from Chicago for three bucks a package and just throw it in an Amazon box, maybe a return box, and it kind of makes it way cheaper than you can FedEx it. I think that's coming, but it's really interesting to see. The way they think about things and his articulation of it was very crisp, Scot: [53:45] and I really enjoyed that. I was geeking out on that when I was listening to the call. Jason: [53:50] Yeah, for sure. That actually came up in some of the conferences I was at that he, you know, Jeff Bezos famously wrote this memo a long time ago about kind of being an object oriented, company and having all these building blocks that people could easily access and use internally and externally. And, and that this was kind of Andy Jassy doubling down on that. Yeah. It's Biffy is an example of that. Like you inventing some cool products that make it your jobs easier. And then you're selling those products to, to your potential competitors. Scot: [54:20] Yeah. So two examples, we have some devices we've developed for ourselves. One is a tire tread scanner. So it does 2D and 3D tires, tire tread scans. It's called Easy Tread. And we developed it for ourselves because we touch 3,000 cars a day right now and we wanted to measure the tire treads. And the state of the art is a Bluetooth needle. And it's, you know, you have to lay on your back. The cars are on the ground for us most of the time. So you have to like get underneath there, measure three things, and then it Bluetooths to a phone. Then you have to take it, the data entry, it doesn't have an API. Then you have to like take what it measured and then now cut and paste it into something else. It's kind of, kind of redonkulous in our world. So we developed a solution for that and we're selling it externally. And then the big, the big one is from day one, this has been the plan is we've built a ton of software for Spiffy. So we're, you know, we've got 400 technicians, 250 vans doing all kinds of services across the US and there's no operating system for that. So we, there's no like Salesforce for that or Shopify. So we had to go build our own. And so we've built, you know, route optimization specific to this parts integration, fitment integration, VIN lookup, all these things that are required integration with tire suppliers, oil filter suppliers, oil suppliers, parts suppliers, all these things. So we have like 150 things we've integrated with and pulled in from all over the place. Scot: [55:44] And then labor management, all the reporting that comes along with it, all that stuff. And we're starting to license that out as its own platform to anyone that wants to do auto services. And so these dealerships and large auto service companies are coming to us and finally saying, this seems kind of obvious now that we need to provide the ability to go to our customers. They call it at their curb. They use a different language than we do. But basically what you and I would call mobile, you know, last mile delivery of the service. And we're starting to license that out. And it's a lot like AWS, right? So we had to build this for our retail business, which is doing the services and now we're licensing it out a lot AWS and we have this device business. So it's been, I would not have, it comes intuitively to me now. Cause I've been, you know, basically living this lifestyle for 20 years and watching Amazon do it, But it's been fun to kind of build a company with this mindset of we're going to take these things we build and give them to other, not give them, but sell them to other people. And then that makes them better. And they help us pay for all the R&D that we've done on it. Jason: [56:48] Yeah, that's very cool. And that gives listeners a very tangible example of why we haven't been able to podcast quite as frequently as we'd like. Scot: [56:56] Yes. Jason: [56:56] I do, at the risk of making this the world's longest episode of our show, I do have a geeky add-on to the supply chain conversation. Yeah. So a lot of these services that they're adding to specifically what they call supply chain with Amazon are around importing services, because an increasingly high percentage of all the stuff Amazon sells is. Jason: [57:20] Amazon is taking care of importing it, right? And most often from China, but from all over the world and taking care of all that logistics and getting it ready to sell and deliver via the world's most impressive last mile to consumers in America. And there's tons of complicated, high friction touch points and processes to flow all those goods. Well, the big competitors out there to Amazon at the moment that we've talked about ad nauseum on the show, like Shein and Timu, had this kind of direct from China model where they're putting all the goods on 747s, flying them over, and they're taking advantage of this loophole in the postal treaty called the de minimis provision to not pay taxes or duties or have all these goods inspected that they ship into the U.S. and U.S. Jason: [58:07] Businesses have been complaining it's unfair. There's like all kinds of talk about it. We've done shows on this and I'm sure we'll do others. So here's the new thing in supply chain. Jason: [58:15] All the people that have been complaining about this are now doing it because guess what's happened? A bunch of these companies have been born that now help every other brand in the world take advantage of the de minimis provisions to near shore their goods. So you're a footwear manufacturer, you make your shoes in Vietnam, Instead of shipping them to the U.S. On a pallet and paying taxes and duties, you ship them on a pallet to Mexico, and then you send them individual parcels across the border from Mexico into the U.S. and never have to pay taxes or duties on the stuff. So I don't know if that will last in the long run, but that's a very disruptive, significant change happening in the whole world of e-commerce supply chains as we speak. That's pretty interesting. Interesting. Had you gotten wind of that yet? Scot: [59:07] No, no. That's all new to me. Thanks for sharing. Jason: [59:09] Yeah. That's probably how you're going to have to start getting your spiffy stuff into the country now too. I won't, I won't, we won't go there. But the one other piece that did not come up in the earnings call, but a controversy around Amazon since our last show is news articles came out that Amazon was de-installing its Just Walk Out technology from its grocery stores. So Amazon had built Just Walk Out into several of these Amazon Fresh stores and they built it into Whole Foods. And if you know the history of Just Walk Out, this was the original intention of Just Walk Out was was to do it for grocery stor

Rural mom and pop shops love him. 13,000 have purchased his POS and software system processing over $1.85 billion in GMV in 2023 across 35m transactions. Can he crack $2b GMV in 2024?

EP318 - Temu Deep Dive with Earnest Analytics  Episode Summary: In this episode, Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg and Scot Wingo dive deep Temu, the online marketplace operated by the Chinese e-commerce company PDD Holdings, that has become the fastest growing retailer in history. Joining us on the episode is Michael Maloof is the Head of Marketing for Earnest Analytics. Earnest works with world-class data partners to acquires, anonymize, and productize insight about the entire U.S. Economy. They have posted numerous insights about Temu in the US this year: Feb 28: Temu's 2024 Super Bowl ad blitz failed to accelerate growth March 5: Temu is growing fastest among high income earners March 12: Almost half of Wish, AliExpress customers shop at Temu In this episode we cover who Temu is, how big they have become, who their customers are and what retailers they are likely impacting, their go to market strategy (and especially their marketing spend), the controversy around their use of the Global Postal Treaty, and some of their potential risks. We also explore where they could go next. If you're in the commerce space, you'll want to make sure you are up to speed on Temu. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 318 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday, March 13th, 2024. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show. This is episode 318 being recorded on Wednesday, March 13th, 2024. I'm your host, Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg. And as usual, I'm here with your co-host, Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey, Jason, and welcome back, Jason and Scott show listeners. Jason, one of the topics that is coming up a lot this year, we talked a lot at a lot in our recap and our preview is Temu. By many measures, people think they're one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies in history. If you watch the Super Bowl, I think they spent $8 trillion on ads there. So we want to do a deep dive into this and cover a number of topics. We want to talk about a little background around Temu. What's it mean for U.S. retailers? And, you know, it's a Chinese company. Does it even matter? If yes, why? Because Temu isn't public and they are a Chinese company, they don't really disclose any information. So we wanted to bring on a guest that is basically a Temu expert. So we looked around and we found Michael Maloof. He is the head of marketing at Ernest Analytics. Ernest works with world-class data partners to acquire, anonymize, and productize insights about the U.S. economy. They have posted lots of articles. This is how we found Michael. I think you know him as well from the trade show circuit. So he's going to help us do this deep dive into what's going on at Temu. Welcome to the show, Michael. Michael? Michael: [1:59] Yeah, thanks so much for having me on the show. Big fan of your annual predictions and the work you guys do. So I'm head of marketing at Earnest Analytics. We're the leading credit card retail pricing and healthcare claims data provider for investors and retailers. Before Earnest, I was actually a tech and telco analyst over at Goldman. The two credit card data sets we work with now, Orion and Vela, are probably the most pertinent to my conversations about the consumer economy and certainly this conversation today about TMU. They sourced respectively from a large account aggregator, like a budgeting app, and part of a POS system in the US. And Ernest essentially takes these massive and messy data sets, normalizes structures, and then puts them onto our platform so everyone from portfolio managers to marketers can see this third-party data. For example, you'd see market share, competitive benchmarking, customer behavior, revenue predictions, and macro trends for thousands of companies, including TMU. Scot: [3:03] Awesome. Thanks, Michael. And then, so which sector did you cover when you were an analyst at Goldman Sachs? Michael: [3:08] Tech and telco. So anything in the tech space, we had a few marketplaces in there, telecom companies. It's been a while though. Ernest has been my home now for seven years. Scot: [3:20] Okay. Was this in the Anthony Noto era you were there? Michael: [3:23] This was in the vera rossi era she was my my lead where we recovered uh latin american tech and telco. Scot: [3:30] Very cool awesome yeah they did goldman did the channelizer ipo so i get to know the team there pretty well awesome well before we jump into the data which we're excited to kind of hear what you have to share here jason i know this has become a very hot topic in your world you you You spoke on it at NRF. In your day job, you're getting tons of questions about this. I think you're booked out solid with Tmoo briefings. So those people pay big money for it, and our listeners don't pay. Give us the free version of your backgrounder on Tmoo. Jason: [4:05] Yeah, thanks, Scott. And I'm sure we'll spice in some other tidbits as we go, but I'll try to give a concise bullet. it. Temu is a subsidiary of a company that used to be called Pinduoduo in China. It's now called PDD Holdings, which is infinitely easier to spell, by the way. And PDD Holdings is one of the largest e-commerce companies in China. On a market cap basis, they keep flip-flopping with Alibaba. So they're super competitive. They're way north of like $400 billion in GMV in China and had a really interesting trajectory, but a couple of years ago, they launched Tmoo into first UK and then US, now 49 other markets as a new retail concept. And so a couple of things I'd want folks to know before we dive in with Michael, first of all, the name is a loose English acronym for team up price down. So I always pronounce Tmoo as in team. [5:08] There are multiple pronunciations out there, even from Tmoo employees. So I'm not sure there's an official pronunciation. In the United States, they launched in September of 2022. So they're about 18 months old now. And most folks were not familiar with them until, a surprise, three months after launching, they bought a Super Bowl ad. So they became familiar to millions of Americans with the Shop Like a Billionaire ad that ran in the Super Bowl in 2023. And then as Scott alluded to, they bought five ads in the Super Bowl this year. So they haven't disclosed what they paid. A normal 30-second spot in the Super Bowl costs about $7 million. They ran four ads during the Super Bowl and one during the postgame. So estimates are in the kind of $20 to $30 million that they spent just on that ad. There's a bunch of estimates for how big they are in the U.S. I'm eager to hear what Michael thinks, but his old rivals at Morgan Stanley have them at about $16 billion in GMV in the U.S. But more interesting, Morgan Stanley estimates they're going to be $32 billion by 2030. So you think about a retail company that launched in September of 2022, and then in the first year, business sold $16 billion worth of stuff. That's the fastest growing retailer of all times. We do know from other sources that they get more traffic every year than Target. [6:36] They've been the most downloaded shopping apps on the Android and Apple app stores since they were born. So they've kind of owned the top of that list. And a couple other little interesting things. They are a marketplace. They have invented a model they call next generation manufacturing. So they're a marketplace. It's all three-piece sellers that are selling goods on Temu. But unlike traditional Western-based marketplaces, Temu does a lot more of the work, of listing the products and fulfilling the products for the factory. So they may, if you're a factory, they say the only thing you need is a cellular internet connection, and they provide you all the infrastructure to become a successful seller on Temu. There's somewhere between 80 and 100,000 Chinese factories that are currently sellers on the marketplace. And then one big innovation is this week, they're turning on the ability for U.S. Marketplace sellers to sell and fulfill their goods from the U.S. as well. So one interesting question about a marketplace is, are they competing for sellers with Amazon and Walmart? And now they're bringing that fight to American soil. So that, I feel like, is enough to get us started. There's certainly an interesting company that's worth following. [7:52] The way I originally discovered Earnest is through this show. One of our most popular guests, Dan McCarthy, has been on a few times talking about his his CLV methodologies. And our listeners have really enjoyed his his commentary. He has partnered with Earnest Data several times to do some really interesting analytics. And you guys at Earnest have published a couple of those as thought leadership. And so that's how I first met you. And then, Michael, I noticed you published like three articles on Temu this year. Michael: [8:22] That's right. Right. Teamio has been one of the top client asked for themes. It's definitely something we're seeing a lot in the press. We work a lot with those thought leaders as well. And that's something that we're getting a lot of questions on from everyone from business to fashion to Dan McCarthy. So glad to answer any questions there. We are kind of in a unique spot, kind of have the dashboard on the consumer economy, if you will. Basically what's going on within the last few days we can see everything from customer acquisition they have to their gross market merchandise value. Scot: [8:56] Got it let's let's start at the basics and let's pretend you know so i see Temu and you know it looks like they've got and you know one of my theories is it feels a lot like wish.com so it's really kind of cheap stuff slower ship going to what i would call value-oriented and consumers, you know, in your data, what, what kind of customer are, is buying this and then how fast do you think they are really growing? Michael: [9:22] Yeah, let me answer the second one first. Timmy's growing very quickly. Like you said, from late 2022 onwards, our data is showing double digit month to month growth, which is just explosive, right as it became a household name. In the first three months, for context, it had roughly as many weekly active users in the US as the largest fast fashion brand, Shein, and within 10 months had surpassed Shein in sales. And it had taken Shein years to get to that point. So really, a much shorter timeline. For an idea of size, about 18% of US households have shopped at TeamView since its launch. And in terms of GMV, in February, we saw about 1% of Amazon's US GMV. If you look at that, if you just break that out over the whole year, I believe in 2023, their net sales were something like over $500 billion. You're looking at around $50 billion in gross merchandise value moving through the service. But nevertheless, it's kind of not made really meaningful inroads with the largest online brands. I mean, it's still 1% in a good month. And that's actually decelerated since 2023. In fact, February of 2023 had fewer sales than January, despite the really heavy advertising spend you mentioned. [10:47] So yeah, there's some signs that the growth is kind of changing there. Mainly that retention is increasing even while this like... [11:01] New customer acquisition-based sales growth model is slowing down. TeamU's average customer lifetime value tracks higher than Walmart. And we're seeing customers becoming much more loyal. So that's an interesting kind of plus for them while sales in total are kind of hitting a lull. But yeah, let's talk about who those customers are too. It's definitely been one of the more interesting finds from our data. Despite the really low price points and that kind of gamified discount system, TeamView's US customer base skews middle to high income, actually. Sales among customers earning that over $190K, which is obviously very high up there, they're the fastest growing income bracket. And that's from May to January, May of 23 to January 24. So those sales to customers earning under $55K, like less than the median U.S. household income, that's actually the slowest growing. So today, about 44% of TeamU sales come from earners making over $130K. Not only do high-income earners account for the largest share, they're outgrowing. We just think that TeamU resonates mostly with customers with more disposable income. income, people who can afford to take a gamble on an item that might not work out. [12:27] You buy a floor mat for $5, it doesn't work. A middle high income person might just say, hey, it was $5 wasted, but the poor people don't always look at that. They're looking for a little bit more bang for their buck, can't afford that type of gamble. Yeah, it's interesting. Scot: [12:46] Cool and then you've you know you mentioned that they're you know basically their ltv is going up do you have any insight into why are they getting better at like maybe predictive analytics or recommendation engine or you know they see jason bought some gadget and then they they know he's now a gadget geek and they kind of start targeting do you have any insight into what's driving that that bump in LTV? Michael: [13:09] That's a good question. So I don't really have much insight into that. I try not to get out over my skis in terms of the data that I have available to me. We're looking at retention. We're looking for what's called a smile. Dan McCarthy talks about it all the time, which is over time as a company starts to bring back more customers that stopped stopped spending with them. And that's been pretty rare to see in e-commerce history. That's something they've managed to do. How they're doing that, I'm not totally sure. So it's definitely going to be the key for them to continue growing as new customer growth slows down, though. Scot: [13:52] Yeah. Jason, do you know? Jason: [13:54] Yeah. Well, so I don't know. I just want to point out that while Michael is wisely trying to not get over his skis, I live over my skis. So I'll tumble down the ski slope once again. One of the things I maybe should have said up front or maybe apparent to a lot of people is T-Moves marketing spend isn't just that Super Bowl ad. They're spending a fortune on digital ads and almost certainly losing a lot of money on every sale. So there's a Wall Street Journal article that came out this week that said that Temu or PDD overall spent over $2 billion with Facebook and was Facebook's largest advertiser. They're also Google's largest advertiser in the U.S. And so they're buying a lot of customers. And the the Wall Street Journal estimates that they're losing $6 on every sale. They're spending so much on customer acquisition. And so in that first year, they're doing a ton of marketing. There's a ton of people that never heard of Temu. They're acquiring those customers. They're getting that first order. [14:54] And, you know, a mini version of this is what Wish did until they ran out of money. But though it doesn't seem like there was a lot of evidence that Wish ever got traction, right? Like they didn't get those repeat orders. And what I think we're seeing And what I've seen in some of the data that Michael shared with us is that Temu very much is growing that LTV, getting repeat orders, even as the flood of digital marketing they're spending is sort of losing some efficacy as the law of large numbers kick in. And then I would also say Pinduoduo in China and now Temu in the U.S. Is very well known for their gamification. So they have lots of clever gamification mechanics on their websites, group buying, contests, gifts, one-time deals that are all like very carefully crafted to entice you to make an incremental purchase and to make an unplanned purchase. So I think all of those things appear to be working and then they hit you on social media with, you know, a huge spend, you know, right when you're, you're doom scrolling and expressing some, some purchase intent through your clicks. Scot: [16:08] Very cool. How about you, Michael, you mentioned this, this, this slowdown, which is exactly opposite of what I would have thought given the Superbowl ads. What do you, does the data show you anything there? Is it? Normal or like what what's going on. Michael: [16:23] Yeah i mean i don't know i don't know what would be normal for this company that's still up hundreds of percent a year but when i'm looking at at month over month growth which is the kind of the best way i can think to to look at it it is pretty remarkable there was some sort of a step change in august of last year where it went from growing double double digits each month to growing just single digits or down. The holidays, December actually was smaller than November in terms of their sales. And January was smaller still, makes sense. But February, also very challenged in terms of sales. I'm wondering if they're in a sort of spiral in terms of the new customer's first time kind of buying frenzy is over, or if this is a shift towards very purposely trying to get people in the door and they're just actually tapping brakes a bit on advertising spending. I'm not totally sure what this signals just yet. Scot: [17:35] Got it. Okay. Jason: [17:36] Is it safe to say that there's no clear evidence that spending $30 million million dollars on the Super Bowl had a super observable impact on their sales. Michael: [17:46] Okay. Yeah. So the Super Bowl. Let's talk about that. The million dollar question or $30 million question, I guess. The answer is probably not. There are a lot of ways to measure advertising effectiveness, as you guys know better than most. Brand awareness and net promoter score. But yeah, for a young company like this facing slowing new customer growth, I'd imagine they're looking to move the needle with each of these like big marketing events and the data just suggests that their multiple ads on February 11th had no meaningful boost in sales actually TeamU saw a noticeable deceleration in sales growth following the event actually kind of, like sales were significantly slower in the next few days. So unless they're measuring this on a much longer timeline, I don't think this investment was worth it. I think they would be better just plowing dollars into digital, wherever that is. Jason: [18:42] Yeah, it's super interesting. You know, obviously for listeners that don't know, my salary gets paid by those Super Bowl ads. I work for a big ad agency for which I'm very grateful. But the lot of controversy around our water cooler the day after the show. That was a spin that you rarely see. And in one metric, it clearly had an impact. There was a lot more discussion about Temu than any other company on social media the day after the Super Bowl. So the Super Bowl ads triggered awareness and conversation. I think they were the second behind Verizon, which had Beyonce, right? And so there was a lot of talk on social media. It was not all positive. There was a lot of discussion on social media, but people that hated the team who had the first time they saw it because it was sort of by Super Bowl standards, not a very high production animated ad. I think they made it in-house and they, you know, ran it with much greater repetition than audiences are used to. So it generated a lot of conversation that didn't necessarily translate to sales, at least that we can measure in the short term. And so that that's going to be interesting long term case study about what what these kind of, you know, splashy big reach audiences can and can't can't do. Right. Michael: [20:00] You know, I don't, again, skis and getting over them. It just seems like the outcome for them at this point should be a little further down the funnel. And I don't see how advertising spend like that will marginally get someone, persuade someone to buy a team you that wasn't already going to. It seems, yeah, it was a lot and there was no really movement in our data, either in new signups or in sales. I think there's some other research out that downloads are trending downwards or slowing down as well. We don't have that data, but I was reading elsewhere. So I think, Scott, this is maybe more to your 2024 prediction that people are realizing this is wish and slowing. and becoming less enamored or falling out of it. Jason: [20:52] No, no, no, no. Scott's predictions cannot be right. Scot: [20:55] Wait, if I hear that, you're pre-anointing that I'm right. Is that you're here in March, you're saying I was right with my prediction. Man, I'm good. Michael: [21:04] I didn't want to pick a side here, but I think people might be falling out of love with it, although it's not because it's not wish, it's because they're out wishing wish. We can talk to it a little bit. But I think people just realize Teamio is managing to disrupt Wish. And we can talk to the brands that it's disrupting. That's just one of many. It's got higher retention, bigger scale than Wish. But it does have the same limits as Wish and that this deep discount model doesn't have the big household brands that people want when they're making those everyday purchases that are slightly bigger, like the Tides and Cloroxes or the recognizable alternatives. There are just some things you don't want to replace and you don't want to gamble on. I don't think anyone wants to spend a dollar on detergent and see what happens. It's just going to be tough for them to scale at some point. I think the question we should be asking is if they've reached that point yet. I'm not sure. The sales growth slowing suggests they could have. But in the meantime, they are actually taking a wrecking ball to several other brands. So just because total sales is slowing doesn't mean the disruptive effect is slowing. Scot: [22:22] Yeah, let's go, Jason. Jason: [22:51] Because Temu is buying so many ads and driving the price on all those auctions up. So don't know if it's moving the needle on consumer impact or not, but it for sure is having an impact on their competitors, at least in that regard. Michael: [23:04] So you're saying maybe their goal is to just suck all the oxygen out of the room? Jason: [23:08] I'm saying that's potentially an unintended positive benefit. Mm-hmm. Scot: [23:15] Yeah, and you've teed us up there. Who is, is it retailers or is it more brands? Who's getting impacted by this? And kind of embedded in this question is, do you have an idea of the categories? Like if we looked at that pie of the 50 billion GMV, is it largely electronics? Is it apparel? Like what are the big wedges inside of there? Michael: [23:35] Yeah, well, so the great part about transaction data, it's really good at looking at brand disruption, or I should say retail disruption by brand. Not great at looking at the categories. You know, I don't see what an individual breakout of a credit card receipt is. I'm just seeing where people are spending. So I think that's the question I'm more equipped to answer. In terms of impact, some of the folks you think of when you think of mass market and discount retailers like Five Below and Walmart, the ones that you immediately want to ask if they're being disrupted, they seem like they'd have the most overlap. They've been pretty untouched, actually. Part of its overlap, only 19% of Walmart and Amazon's customers have even tried TeamU. And that's about the same as the total percent of US households that have tried it. substantially the whole country has made a purchase at Walmart and Amazon. So they're just not as at risk, maybe on the margins. But what we're seeing, I guess, next step up with some risk is the dollar stores. Dollar General, they share about a quarter of their customers with TeamU. And if you look at Dollar General's customers spending at TeamU, it's up over 800% year to year from January 23 to 24. Obviously, a super small base and flat. at Dollar General itself. [24:54] And then those TeamU customers who aren't, or those Dollar General customers who aren't TeamU customers, they're spending slightly up at Dollar General. It suggests that there's some impact. Again, not the biggest that we've seen. So I'd say like dollar stores kind of marginally. [25:10] This is not as supported by data, but just putting the data point together that the TeamU customers are spending less and TeamU customers are richer, you could come to the conclusion that Dollar General role is losing out on richer customers looking for deals a little bit. Maybe they're popping in for something they really don't want to spend a lot of money on, like a party, something like that. That's where the sales that they're losing is. Which actually kind of takes us to the last and biggest impact. Wish and AliExpress, as well as all those hobby lobby party supplies, like Oriental Trading. So I'll start with Wish. Their customers are just fleeing. I think there's no better way to say it. 50% less spend on Wish in January 2024 than January 2023, and over 680% increase at TeamU. That's just astounding. The Wish customer, once they try I, TeamU, they're done. It's game over. It's similar for AliExpress. And I think that what TeamU has really done early on, we need to think of them less as like an Amazon killer, and more as a brand that just came in to consolidate the existing demand for this deep discount online spending that these two, AliExpress and Wish kind of got off the ground in the US. [26:35] In terms of the hobby space, Oriental Trading, Hobby Lobby, Party City, they all experienced double-digit declines year-on-year in February among the customers who also shopped at TMU. And these brands, they're catering to occasional and discount merchandise. I think they're really going to struggle adapting to TMU. It's like I said, the person who doesn't mind throwing away $5, $10, $15 on party supplies if they don't work out. But it's a one-time thing anyway. way you know it's it's things that they're somewhat disposable items to these customers and very interchangeable got. Scot: [27:12] It i noticed you didn't mention amazon on that list is there is it there been an amazon impact or has it been. Michael: [27:18] That's great good catch pretty negligible just just like walmart they're just brands on those platforms at this point that you can't find at at these places i think when i say on the margins that's what i mean there could be hey, I need this small thing for my kitchen that I could get for $1 or get for $3. And that might be the sale they lose out on, but they're doing a better job of being one-stop shops. And I think with what we've seen, it doesn't seem like the business model is set to take on Amazon yet. Scot: [27:57] Got it. Yeah. Jason: [28:00] You know, a couple of things that come to mind. A, I think the dollar store thing is super interesting because historically dollar stores haven't sold very much online. Like, and, and, you know, usually their excuse is that, that super low price point discounted items don't work online. Right. And I, I think like in some ways I look at Temu and I say, they're actually the digital dollar store that did figure it out. Now. [28:25] It remains to be seen whether they can make money doing it in the long run. But it doesn't surprise me that those are some of the categories that are being disproportionately impacted. And I think you really hit something interesting on some of these everyday essential retailers that sell the brands that consumers are looking for and trust. [28:46] That, to me, feels like a different shopping occasion than the shopping occasion I think Timo is winning. Branding there's this whole new trend on all the social media platforms called dupes and you know people think of like knockoffs and forgeries where you you try to pretend you're a brand that you're not but dupes is a something different dupes is this is a very similar product to a name brand product but it it overtly is not the name brand product and it's a way better value and they're now these big cohorts of consumers that talk about their dupes and brag about their dupe finds and, you know, proudly make these, these dupe decisions. And it feels like those are the kind of things where, where Teemu's playing really well, where, you know, you're into, you know, crafting and you've, you know, there's some expensive machine, a cricket machine for cutting vinyl. And you say, oh man, I found a dupe on Teemu for 20 bucks, right? Like those Those feel like the kinds of occasions they're winning when you're willing to trade down for that no-name product and take a gamble versus when you know you want the Tide dishwasher soap. Michael: [29:58] I think that's a great point. They're taking advantage of the trading down phenomenon in general right now that a lot of brands are seeing, a lot of retailers are seeing. This is the perfect spot. I'll just go ahead and see if Temu has it. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Scot: [30:15] Cool. One topic, and this is kind of a jump ball for you guys, is the, you know, I read a lot about this shipping model, and this was always Wish's kind of secret sauce is there's this, there's this like loophole in the postal code where if you send this something small, you know, it doesn't have any tariffs, number one. And then number two, there's like this really cheap postal rate, or I can't remember if China subsidizes it or it's free or we subsidize it, but there's some, there's kind of like double loopholes. There's a tariff one and a shipping one. And I've seen some noise lately about people wanting to kind of shut this down. Do you guys, either of you more expert on that than I am and have an opinion on if it's going to be sustainable or not? Jason: [30:57] I could certainly jump in there. So what you're talking about is there's this thing called the Global Postal Treaty. And it's a prearranged agreement between like 95 countries, 94 countries for how they'll deliver each other's mail. When you try to ship a letter from the U.S. to Germany, the U.S. Post Office is going to hand it to the German Post, and they need to know in advance how much the German Post is going to charge the U.S. Post Office to deliver that so that the U.S. Post Office can charge a rate in advance to you to deliver those things. So this global postal treaty is super valuable, and it makes it possible to cost effectively and, you know, with predictable rates, mail stuff all across the world. [31:41] Unfortunately, there's a couple of problems with it. There was the developed nations agreed that for less economically developed nations, they would have a preferred rate. So they would charge even less to deliver. The U.S. post office would charge less to deliver mail from a developing economy than they would from an established economy. And until recently, China was characterized as a developing economy, which is probably not accurate. And then the Postal Treaty specifies a dollar limit that it only is in effect for packages under a certain value. And so this is called the de minimis clause of the Postal Treaty. In the United States, the threshold is $800. So when Temu ships something to a consumer in the U.S. that costs under $800, they get a predetermined rate from the U.S. Post office, which is often cheaper than the rate to mail something from one part of the U.S. to the other. And Scott, per your point, there is no tariffs charged on that item and there is no import inspection on that item. So, you know, normally when we, you know, if a U.S. Retailer imports a container of goods from China, there's all kinds of inspections to make sure that the factory in China met labor standards and, you know, met environmental standards, and then they pay tariffs on all that. [33:08] The team who hands one package to the U.S. post office, they they get to bypass all that, which, you know, is, of course, controversial. No one wants to get rid of the Global Postal Treaty or even de minimis. But what they're saying is that the U.S.'s 800 hour threshold is probably way too high. Like China's threshold for reciprocation is something like forty dollars or something. So you could you could put a big dent in Temu if you just lowered the the threshold. And so there's There's, you know, noise in Congress about trying to change that limit. I would say that, you know, it is an unfair advantage in many ways, and U.S. Companies are certainly right to complain about that. [33:51] I would say that Temu is different than Wish. Wish took advantage of this cause. Temu takes advantage of it way more effectively, right? So Wish sold, you know, was a marketplace, and they had a factory sell something to an American consumer. And then it was up to the factory to get it to the American consumer. So the factory had to have their own postal account. And then they, you know, had to trigger this postal treaty. And there was no shipping confirmation. And often Wish products took a very long time to ship and a very long time to arrive. As part of this next-gen manufacturing model that Temu has, they do all that for the seller. And it uses Temu's postal account. And they expedite all of these things. Most of these goods get air freighted to the U.S. and put into the U.S. postal system. So while Wish items would have averaged three or four weeks delivery time. [34:46] Temu normally averages like five to seven days, and they almost always outperform their shipping promises. And in fact, they even have a guarantee. They give you $5 back if the package arrives late. So, you know, part of the reason that I don't think they're just purely Wish 2.0 is they actually do have a better, more reliable shipping experience than Wish. And they actually more effectively take advantage of this postal loophole than Wish ever did. Scot: [35:18] Yeah. And Wish took the proceeds of their IPO and built out some fulfillment centers. And they almost did their own version of that Amazon dragon boat or whatever that was called. Has T-Mood signaled they're going to do something like that where they have, you know, even more? Jason: [35:32] Yeah, they already have in some. So they're in 49 countries now. So they do have D.C. fulfillment centers in some of those countries. They've actually talked about opening a fulfillment center in Mexico for delivering goods in the western U.S. And so so they are talking about that. But then this other big thing is starting this week that a U.S. Seller could list their goods that, you know, the goods are already in a warehouse in the U.S. that US seller could list their goods on Temu and then deliver those goods from a US fulfillment center. So that's a potential way to get much faster delivery times for Temu. And we've already seen some badging. Temu has items with a rapid ship badge that are guaranteed for two-day delivery. So it does seem like Temu recognizes that over time, their fulfillment model is going to have to be more nuanced than just the the individual parcels uh coming one at a time but but you know that still seems like the the sort of biggest foundation of how they're delivering all these goods got. Michael: [36:36] It um the minimus though i can't imagine that much they would change would really have an impact we're seeing average ticket prices at 38 last month for for timmy like are they thinking thinking of reducing it by that much or. Jason: [36:52] So, I mean, a just talking about way over our skis, like my, my political acumen is very poor, but yeah, I don't think Congress is gonna do anything. I think like at most they'll have a, a hearing and try to look like tough guys talking about how unfair it is and how they're gonna try to protect the American businessman and the American consumer. And then when push comes to shove, they won't, they won't do anything, which is my, my cynical nature. But you're right. Right. Nobody's talking about dropping the de minimis low enough to to, you know, really trigger the bulk of these these Temu shipments. So it's it's more likely if they made a change, it would be a gesture, not like, you know, some some game changing thing. Now, you know, there's another big Chinese company out there, ByteDance, which is TikTok. And like there there is a bill going through Congress right now to ban TikTok. And so, you know, if something like that were to happen with, with a PDD or Temu, you know, that, that would of course, you know, be a, a big threat of a disruption. Scot: [37:54] Yep. And then on that example you gave, Jason, of a U.S. seller in a fulfillment center, is that Temu's fulfillment center or the seller's fulfillment center? Jason: [38:04] The seller's fulfillment center. So potentially what would be one of the ironies of this is, of course, as Amazon has expanded their fulfillment services, you could be an Amazon seller, be using FBA, and sell something on Temu and have Amazon fulfill it for you. Scot: [38:20] Yeah, Wish did something like this. What we found was the U.S. Seller struggled to get things in the price point that consumer wanted, right? It's like it's such this low quality stuff that almost has to be offshore for even to the manufacturer. Jason: [38:36] Yeah, I think you are 100 percent right there. I don't think they're going to like we don't know what the uptake is going to be on these U.S. Sellers. It's an interesting talking point, but it doesn't seem like there's going to be a bunch of U.S. Sellers that are going to likely participate in this like low price dupes demand that they have today. Now, what would be interesting, Pinduoduo, I mentioned, which is a huge, huge entity in China. Pinduoduo started with this same stuff. They started with really inexpensive marketplace goods. And as Pinduoduo got bigger and more established and won the hearts and minds of Chinese consumers, they moved up market. They started selling brand name stuff. They started selling higher quality stuff. And today they're a hybrid seller. PennDuoDuo in China sells their own goods in addition to marketplace items, which I've never seen before. Usually it always goes the other way. And so there's at least a premise that like maybe the U.S. sellers don't like add to the current assortment, but maybe the U.S. Sellers help Temu round out their assortment with some higher price point, you know, more recognizable goods for the U.S. consumer that helps them win more wallet share. Scot: [39:49] Interesting. Cool. We're running up against time. Do you guys have any other topics you want to hit before we call it a show? Michael: [39:58] No, I think it's fair. You know, I already mentioned one of your predictions. I should talk about the other one. Just to pick on Jason for a second. I don't think we'll make it to the 75% of target USC comm this year for Temu, Jason. Sorry. It's like a stretch. Scot: [40:17] Man. How do we get Michael on the show more? Like, I'm really enjoying this. This was a really good guess. Jason: [40:24] I feel like you're calling the winner of the Super Bowl in the first quarter, man. Come on. Michael: [40:27] Okay, well, I'll just put it this way. At 18% of the US households, three months into the year, it seems unlikely at their current growth that they get there. My view basically though, writing this, is that they've done a great job in the first year of attracting folks with a lot of disposable income to buy things that they likely wouldn't have bought anywhere else, like party supplies, household goods. It's maybe a different model than they they have in China. The challenge for them now, you guys both definitely identified this, that it's basically to convince people to switch everyday spending from Amazon and Walmart on those bigger items. And they don't have the assortment right now for that. And that's what you're mentioning. They need to either move up market or figure out what that assortment looks like. But that's going to be a bigger hurdle. They're reaching critical mass. They just have some decisions to make internally at this point. Jason: [41:17] Yeah. Well, in general, I feel like that is going to be a great place to leave it for this show because we have run out of our allotted time. But Michael, we really appreciated your insight. We'll certainly have you back. I know your view of the U.S. economy is useful for a whole bunch of topics that come up frequently on the show. But as always, if listeners enjoyed this episode, I hope you will jump on iTunes and leave us that five-star review. Scot: [41:46] Thanks, Michael. And this has been really good for Jason's ego. So I feel like you've knocked him down a couple of pegs. I appreciate that. And then if folks want to read more about your writing or connect with you, is LinkedIn the best place or are you more active on TikTok? Where can people find you? Yeah. Michael: [42:04] Michael Maloof on LinkedIn. I'm always posting a lot of Ernest data on there. And then also on our company blog, ErnestAnalytics.com. Go to the Insights blog and subscribe. Jason: [42:17] Yep. And I will put links to both the team new articles you guys published and your LinkedIn in the show notes. Michael: [42:23] Thank you. Jason: [42:24] Until next time, happy commercing!