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OPERATORS — 198 episodes

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Why Founders Have to Become Their Own Best Marketer

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$450M, 6 Brands & 4 Countries: Why Sunil Agrawal Refuses to Stop

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Roman Khan: The Ecommerce Logistics Play Worth $10 Billion

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Help an Operator Out: 8-Figure Dog Brand That Needs a New Growth

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100% Growth for 8 Years: IQBAR’s Will Nitze & Jess Greenwood

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Opening Retail Stores vs. Going Wholesale: What the Numbers Say

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Our 2026 Ecommerce Audit: Wins, Mistakes, Lessons & What’s Next

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How a $1.5B Pet Brand Wins at Ecommerce Marketing: Whisker’s CEO

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How Ridge’s Annual Revenue Hit +$250M & Sean Became a Dad

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How to Pick a 3PL Without Getting Burned: Red Flags, Green Flags

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From $10K Losses a Day to an L Catterton Deal: Zach Stuck’s Full Story

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How Incrementality Cuts Waste + What and Where to Test in Ecommerce

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How Ecommerce CEOs Actually Pay Themselves (Real Answers)

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How Tim Doyle Built Eucalyptus to $450M in ARR & Sold It for $1.15B

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How to Hire the 5 Ecommerce Roles That Will Make or Break Your Brand

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Trends Shaping Health & Wellness in Ecommerce: GLP-1s & Beyond

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Ecommerce Founder’s Guide to Owning Your Manufacturing & Factory

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New Product Launch Playbook Behind 9-Figure Ecommerce Brands

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How Ecommerce Brands Can Fund Growth: Winning DTC Math

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Mike’s Story, From Yeti Knockoff to Building New Brands

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Billions in Ecommerce Deals & How to Build a Brand Worth Buying

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Marketer to President: Posh Peanuts’ Jenna Habayeb on Growth & Data

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“It Was So Hard”: Operationalizing Scale With Spot & Tango’s Founder

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How The Woobles Built a Cult Brand: Product, Not Marketing

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Why This CEO Is Building His Own SaaS Killer: Amit RG (RichPanel)

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How Matt Orlić Lost It All, Built a Skincare Empire & Found Meaning

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Your $175B Tariff Refund Checklist With Ryan Petersen, Flexport CEO

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How Hudson Leogrande Is Building Comfrt Into a $1B Brand

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From Spreadsheets to AI Agents: The Ecommerce Data Playbook

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How to Make AI Work for Your Brand With Two (Enterprise) Insiders

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8 Failed Businesses Before Kitsch’s Beauty Empire

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Kat Cole: From Hostess to AG1’s CEO With +$500M in Revenue

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Practical Tips on AI, Brand & Growth With Taylor Holiday

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Mastering Leadership Is Mostly Saying No (And Living With It)

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The Next $100B “Switch”: Inside COMFRT’s Affiliate Playbook

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Thrasio Bought It, Ben Bought It Back: A Founder Who Lived It Tells All

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Execution Monsters: True Classic’s Ryan Bartlett & Ben Diamond

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“Fame Is Not a Business Model”: Celebrity Brands Exposed

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8 Practical Money-Making Tips for 2026 (Part 2)

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Danny Yeung, CEO of IM8 & Prenetics: Operators Titans E009

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2025 Ecommerce Data Exposed: DTC Spend, Revenue & Platform Trends

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2026 Part 1: Macro Ecommerce Predictions & Big Bets

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Operators Titans E008: DUDE Wipes (with Sean Riley)

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From Grand Slams to Flatlines: Inside the Operator Playbook for Surviving Stalled Growth

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Operators Titans E007: Utopia Deals (With CEO Jabran Niaz)

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E145: From Affiliate Hustler to Hydration Empire: Inside Instant Hydration’s Growth Engine

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E144: Do smaller teams = bigger wins?

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E143: Q4 Sales Are Wild!

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E142: Hedge Your Ad Spend

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E141: Cash Flow Keeps Us Rich

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E140: Black Friday Just Got Wild

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E139: The future is members only fashion brands.

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E138: Why Winners Go Broke

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Operators Titans E006: MAËLYS (With Co-Founder & CMO Yariv Citron)

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E137: Wholesale has the potential to ruin your business

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Operators Titans E005: Peak 21 (with President Roman Khan)

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E136: What Top CEOs Do When They Miss Their Numbers

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E135: Operators X Baseball Lifestyle

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Operators Titans E003: Musely (with CEO Jack Jia)

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E134: Thrasio: The Truth, with co-founder John Hefter

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E133: Goodbye Websites. Hello AI Commerce.

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Operators Titans E001: Caden Lane (with CEO Katy Mimari)

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E132: Time to go back to the office?

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E131: Masterclass in Product Development (What Actually Works)

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E130: How to get your brand AI ready

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E129: Confessions of a Consumer Banker

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E128: Building Two Brands: Jocko Fuel and Origin

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E127: The Real Cost of Chasing Growth

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E126: Black Friday 2025

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E125: Bold Creative Wins Where Budgets Can’t

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E124: Winning Big In Consumer With Grüns' Founder Chad Janis

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E123: The Meta Incrementality Report: Lessons from 640 Haus Experiments

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E122: Selling Your Business

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E121: Building a $100M Brand. AGAIN.

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E120: How being likeable can make you rich.

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E119: "You’re losing $20 million a year... and don’t know your LTV?”

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E118: ADHD, Maine, and Muscle: Building Origin USA & Jocko Fuel

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E117: How do you really define brand?

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Bonus Episode: 9 Operators X Meta Summit

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E116: AI Is Rewriting Our Playbook

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E115: Opportunities in India with Ronnie Teja.

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E114: Sean's Back in the Green + Market Insights, Future Commerce Tech, Dynamic Budgeting & More

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E113: £500M Exit. Behind The Curtain With Petfolk Founder Mike Wystrach.

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E112: How US Trade Policy Could Shape The Future Of Our Brands

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E111: Borrelli and Panzer Talk Tariffs.

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E110: Good Businesses Are Bought, Not Sold.

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E109: Will Sold 100 Million Protein Bars

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E108: The SMS Kingpin

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E107: Tips for Impending Doom

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E106: The Tariffs Emergency Episode

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E105: How to Define Your Customer Profiles with Sarah Levinger

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Highbeam x Operators

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E104: Operators Assemble

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E103: Data is a business problem, not just a marketing problem.

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E102: Fortunes are made in recessions

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E101: Never Waste a Crisis

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E100: Harley on Operators

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E099: The 10 year overnight success with David Segal

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E098: The LTV Trap: Escape Your Broken Business Model

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E097: Scientist to Entrepreneur

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E096: Content Creation & Brand Storytelling

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E095: Tariffs.

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E094: Big Business, Big Challenges: Mastering Resource Management.

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E093: Managing High Performance Teams.

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E092: Markets, Conferences, Growth & Optimism.

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E091: Passport Acquires Brand Access

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E090: The Bentist - 7.42M Subscribers

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E089: “The acceleration we’ve been waiting for” - Paul from BK Beauty

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E088: Thrive in '25

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E087: Can you ever bet against Zuck?

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E086: Mike's New Brand: Introducing Trevi

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E085: AppLovin and TV ads

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E084: BFCM Pulse Check

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E083: Curtis Matsko: Operators X Portland Leather Goods

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E082: Election Tariffs?

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E081: Business Debt

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E080: Boardroom to Playroom

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E079: The Pro’s and Con’s of being a CEO

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E078: Going Global

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E077: In Conversation with the Candy King

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E076: Ecommerce Comeback

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E075: Purpose Driven Business

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E074: Growth hacking profit with Mehtab

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E073: How to Manage Your Wealth

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E072: Why You Shouldn’t Run a Sweepstakes, Holiday Season Advertising, Temu’s Earnings & More

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E071: Catching up with Austin

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E070: The Risks and Rewards of Hypergrowth

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E069: How to run sales like a 9-figure brand

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E068: Taylor Holiday - Part 2

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E067: Taylor Holiday - Part 1

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E066: Special guest episode with the founder & CEO of Flexport Ryan Petersen

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E065: Capital, Investment & Politics

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E064: Manage your time like a 9-figure CEO

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E063: Part 2: How to build resiliency into your business

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E062: Special Guest Episode: Growth Marketing Ft. Sarah Carusona

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E061: Part 1: How to build resiliency into your business

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E060: Defending Your Time, Standing for Something, HexClad Super Bowl Ad & More!

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E059: Meta, Consumer Sentiment & Be a Cockroach!

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E058: The Secret to Ecommerce Success? The Human Factor

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E057: Operators in Session with Cherene Aubert

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E056: 9-Figure Brand Health Check

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E055: The AI Takeover, Formal Education Decline, Ecom Tech Disruptions & The Future of Employment

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E054: TikTok and Cool Brands

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E053: Temu & Politics

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E052: Connor Rolain: Marketing Tactics, Product Expansion, Creative Operations, Growth Team & More

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E051: Workload Strategy, Personal Finance, Q1 Recap, Liquidity & More

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E050: Cody Plofker: Marketing Strategies, Meta Advertising, Maximising Contribution, International Market Expansion

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E049: Connor from Ridge: Artificial Newness, Channel Activation, Content Planning, Pricing Strategy

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E048: Roman Khan: Buying and Growing DTC Companies

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E047: DTC Hardships, Amazon Fees, Klaviyo Agency Move & More

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E046: Ridge Retreat, Measuring Brand Awareness, The Rising Cost of Advertising & More.

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The Ridge X Marques Brownlee Partnership: A Deep Dive

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E044: January retail sales, Yeti’s earnings, Shopify’s Q4 & More

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E043: Shopify's price increase, Tapestry's earnings, TikTok as a marketing platform & more

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E042: January Performance, International Thoughts, Sean's Challenge, Conditioning Customers & More

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E041: Competitors, Avoiding Imitation, Red Ocean Strategy, Timing Expansion, Hero Products & More

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E040: Merchandising Deep Dive

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E039: Creative, Top Of Funnel, Productivity Hacks, Delegation, Brand Performance & More.

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E038: The Inventory Deep Dive.

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Operators Bonus Episode - The Sendlane Panel Event

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E037: 2024 Planning, How Ridge Launched Watches, Move Back To Bootstrapping, CEOs Just Write & More

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E036: The Big Debate: Remote or Office? Featuring Steven CEO of Cuts Clothing VS Sean CEO of Ridge.

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E035: 2024 Marketing Predictions, December Sales Check, Marketing Mix, US Economy & More

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E034: Seans Skill Tree Framework, Personal Finance, Ad Efficiency at Scale, Avoiding Emotional bias

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E033: Cyber Monday Results, Contract Manufacturing, Global Commerce Dynamics, Market Competition.

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E032: Black Friday Results Show, Q5 Planning, Maximising December, Market Trends, OOH Ads & More

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E031: Black Friday Special: Deals, Customer Experience, Operations, Success Metrics, Trends & More

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E030: Amazon & Meta Join, Authentic Brands Group Welcome Shein, Ridge Launch Travel, Q4 Pulse Check.

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E029: DSC Acquisition, ERP, Strategy, BFCM Tips. Plus Operators Are Joined by Sharoon CEO of Fulfil.

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E028: Future of Chinese Manufacturing, Hello Bello Breakdown, Celebrities as Partners, Luxury Brands

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E027: Building Houses, Price Sensitivity, Amazing Tech, Growth Teams, Strategic Planning & More

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E026: Consumer Takeovers, AI VS VC, Zuck's Digital & Physical Infusion, Q4, Alo IPO & More

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E025: Q3 Results, Global Growth, Scaling 1-10, Consumer Landscape Speculation, Interest Rates & More

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E024: Aggregator Models Thrasio, Diversification, Ecom Acquisitions, Brand Value Longevity & More

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E023: Cashback Tactics, Growing Categories, Taking on Incumbents, 2024 Ecom Headwinds & More

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E022: Full House of Operators. Growth Targets, Differentiation, Role of a CEO, Trending News & More

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E021: Operators Q&A: International Expansion, Pivoting & Adaptability, Organic Content & More

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Episode 020: Mastering The Art of Product Licensing. A Deep Dive Conversation With The Operators.

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E019: Building Business Moats: Strategies, IP, Competitive Advantages, Knowledge, Patents & More

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E018: How To Price Your Products. A Deep Dive Special.

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E017: How Do You Build Brand Equity? A Deep Dive Special With The Operators.

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E016: Ridge's CMO Connor Joins, Using Agencies, Launching Products, Monetising Your Audience & More

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E015: Kitsch's COO Jeremy Thurswell Joins, Omnichannel Deep Dive, Retail Masterclass & More

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E014: The Operators Focus on Culture. Hiring Unconventionally, Paying Top Talent, Meetings, Values.

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E013: Prime Results, Hiring Execs, China, Ecommerce Health, Investing, Panzerism & More.

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E012: Twitter vs Threads, Prime Day Deal/No Deal, Definitive COGS, Margins, Profit Per Day & More

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E011: Choosing The Right Business, Communication, AI Commerce, Entrepreneurial Experience & More

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E010: Katy Mimari Founder & CEO of Caden Lane in Conversation With The Operators & More

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E009: Mehtab Karta, META Cheat Codes, Financing, Panzerism, Covid, 13-week Cash Flow Model & More.

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E008: Meta Summit Recap, Marketing Complexity, Perfectionism, Action vs. Inaction Bias, & More

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E007: Luck & Timing, Our Worst Investments, Product Diversification, Facebook Conspiracy & More

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E006: Marty Wholesome Goods, De-Risking Talent, Data & Testing, Gamers, Panzerism, Prime Day & More.

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E005: Attribution Modeling, Branding, Panzerism, Company Acquisition, Ridge Regrets & More.

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E004: Organisational Structure, Taking Vacations, Panzerism, Negotiation, TV Advertising & More. (Listen until the end, it's worth it).

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E003: People Cost, Panzerism, Asymmetric Risk, Shopify Layoffs, Flexport & More.

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E002: Should consumer brands be public, Strategy for 2023, When to use 3PL, Being a CEO & more

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E001: Welcome to The Show, Bootstrapped VS Venture, Salary & Distributions, How Much Lawyers Make, The Value of Bankers, Sharing is Powerful. Featuring Our Fourth Host Mike Beckham.

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