Moderna: Cure for Cancer | IM8 $240M Run Rate | TikTok Tests DM Payments

Moderna makes headlines with cancer-cure news, IM8 hits a $240M run rate, Zipline teams up with Uber Eats for drone delivery, and TikTok tests peer-to-peer payments through DMs. It's the consumer's daily show — Ecomm Cowboy — where we break down the stories moving retail and DTC, then sit down with the operators building through it. Today guest host Rabah Rahil (CMO, Tie) joins Chris Hall and Colin Dougherty.ON TODAY'S EPISODEDennis Hegstad — Co-Founder, Internet Research UnitWe dig into his fourth company in the Shopify ecosystem — running paid media for Fashion Nova when it was the #1 brand on Shopify, building LiveRecover into $150M+ in attributed revenue on a "powered by people, not chatbots" bet before its exit, buying and flipping OrderBump in 100 days, the coupon-leak app that died when a Shopify checkout update erased the problem it solved, and building Internet Research Unit as ecommerce's on-demand data layer — all told with unusual honesty about luck and failure.ALSO ON THE SHOW- Loonen unboxing- BuzzBalls x Pop-Tarts- Neko's US expansion- The Tesla Semi- LITEFAR's $599 beach wagon- Garage Beer x Liquid Death: "we want your pee"-------------------------------------Daily newsletter: https://newsletter.ecommcowboy.com/Made possible by:Proppel - https://www.weareproppel.com/ecomm-cowboy-proppelTie - https://meettie.com/TrendTrack - https://www.trendtrack.io/Sathi - https://www.mysathi.io/champions/ecomm-cowboySlash - https://www.slash.com/Richpanel - https://www.richpanel.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyPostscript - https://postscript.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboySeguno - https://www.seguno.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyIntelligems - https://www.intelligems.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyROKT Aftersell - https://www.aftersell.com/offers?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyProxima AI - https://www.proxima.ai/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyNorthbeam: http://northbeam.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyUniversal Ads - https://www.universalads.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyFollow Ecomm Cowboy:https://x.com/ecommcowboyhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/ecommcowboyhttps://www.instagram.com/ecommcowboy/https://www.tiktok.com/@ecommcowboyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/0q1Pp0rW8j6cehXToNTeJchttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ecomm-cowboy/id1761749693