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

Jon Jackson is a senior lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University, a Fractional CTO, and the author of the book Rethinking Your Job Search In Tech.

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

Alessandra Sciicchitano is a lecturer at the SBS Swiss Business School, a human-centered tech advisor, and product strategist.

In this episode we talked about:

00:00 Intro & Alessandra’s background
10:20 Tech In The Loop
11:47 Obsessive focus on the end customer
17:12 Elon Musk
21:06 Mailchimp was started 20 years ago!
26:42 The origins of Airbnb using Craigslist for growth
34:19 Filtering ourselves versus presenting our whole selves to the world
42:24 The origins of Canva - a $40 billion dollar company!

LINKS:

Here is the link to the TILT newsletter:
https://www.byaures.com/tilt

Here is Alessandra's twitter account:
https://twitter.com/AlessandraEsse

Mat Moody is the Founder & CEO of Retention Engine, an AI-powered offboarding experience for subscription companies.

00:00 Balaji Srinivasan is the best twitter account to follow
01:08 Local city dashboard inspired by Balaji
12:35 The flows of money in & out of local communities
14:13 An idea related to amazon spending by community
18:00 Localism and supply chain risk
29:10 Mat’s subscription cancelation app for eCommerce and SaaS
37:09 Aggregating crime data for a local community dashboard

You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/matmoody

Isaiah Bollinger is the CEO of Trellis, an eCommerce Digital Agency.

In this episode we talk about:

00:00 "The Letter"
06:04 Shogun headless and other headless eCommerce options
11:04 Being 10x better to drive adoption
11:55 A new headless design tool in stealth mode
15:12 The challenge of taking money to build SaaS as an agency
16:35 The challenge of B2B merchants moving slowly
20:59 The under-supply of good developers and agencies
24:27 MeetSales.io and other B2B SaaS tech
26:35 Acquisitions and the advantage of being an independent agency
33:41 Keeping yourself motivated as an agency owner
35:48 Using OKRs across departments to drive operations
38:51 Figuring out what you want to do and focusing on it
43:27 The dream to buy up dying B2B businesses and turn them around
48:37 Free advice for B2B merchants