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Commerce Conversations

Commerce Ventures

What powers the brands and financial services we love to use? Commerce infrastructure, of course. The more consumers adopt digital products and demand fast, delightful experiences from their brands, the more this space grows. Commerce Conversations is a podcast from Commerce Ventures, where we dive into the most interesting emerging themes across retail tech and FinTech. Tune in for research deep dives, industry conversations, and intimate CEO interviews from our team.

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00:25:08

SMB Payments Around the World: LatAm (Clara)

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/10/06

Gerry initially found himself in the Bay Area, started an MBA at Stanford, and worked in tech in SF.Inspired by the evolving mobility landscape, he saw an opportunity for shared bikes and scooters in LATAM with higher density and traffic issues.Gerry founded a micro-mobility startup in LATAM, which later merged into Grow Mobility, achieving rapid growth across 7 countries.Despite market success, Grow Mobility faced challenges in financial practices, access to funds, and resource traceability.Gerry's

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00:19:15

SMB Payments Around the World: Africa

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/09/08

Yele's entrepreneurship journey was somewhat planned, driven by his desire to make a big impact on the African continent.He initially studied finance in the UK and worked in a hedge fund in New York before joining the United Nations in Kenya.Yele's motivation for starting his own business was fueled by the challenges he faced in accessing financial services on the continent, leading to his first startup at the age of 25.Yele and his co-founder have a clear vision to make world trade more seamless

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00:30:51

Venture Recruiting 101 for Students

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/08/21

Understanding Business Models: Recognize the commonalities of strong business models, even if they aren't flashy or consumer-facing. Valuable software products often drive recurring revenue streams on the enterprise side – student often don't know what the B2B side looks like.Framework for Market Analysis: Develop a structured approach to understanding markets, including size, pain points, existing solutions, underserved areas, and emerging companies. This framework helps you quickly analyze niche

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00:20:15

The Next Generation of Micro-fulfillment with Yegor...

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/08/04

Micro-fulfillment is a dynamic space that involves automated facilities, usually smaller than 10,000 square feet, for efficient order fulfillment.The landscape of micro-fulfillment solutions includes various goods-to-person systems that aim to optimize storage density and throughput.Instock is a micro-fulfillment solution that uses robots driving on the floor, ceiling, and vertical walls to maximize space utilization.The system is designed to be highly flexible, fitting into existing real estate,

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00:33:01

Why Community is Your Most Underrated Growth Hack...

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/07/14

What is Karat?We’re building a better financial system for creators. So if you’re a YouTuber, an Instagram influencer, a TikTok or Twitch streamer, you are a business, albeit a new and different type of one that makes a living from content. Many of these new types of businesses really struggle to figure out their finances around getting access to credit, help with their taxes, setting up business bank accounts. And so that’s what we help them do. Eric recently started kicking awareness into

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00:25:42

What's Happening in Treasury with Cat Berman (CNote)

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/06/13

Episode Highlights: How did the idea for CNote originate? At the intersection of social responsibility and financial services, CNote was born out of the need to align large institutional investors' values with their cash and fixed income portfolios. Cat, the founder, observed a growing interest among major clients to invest in socially responsible or ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) assets. Recognizing the lack of options in the cash and fixed income space, Cat saw an opportunity to

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00:29:12

The Future of Fleet with Jay Dearborn (WEX)

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/03/30

What does WEX do?From 30,000 feet, what we're all about is simplifying the business of running a business. In this context, that means our three different product sets: benefits, corporate payments, and fleet payments.What’s happening in payments?A few major things… 1) Digitization of payments: even when Jay started his career in 2001, he was focused on the death of the check, and it’s still the last bastion of manual payments today. 2) Consumerization of B2B payments: users are seeking Venmo and

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00:29:36

Powering the ReCommerce Revolution with Andy Ruben...

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/03/08

Episode Highlights: Andy and Matt talk about the shift in thinking that Millennials and Gen Z’s catalyze in regards to sustainability and buying preferencesLike all of the big name innovators in the space like Rent the Runway and ThredUp, Trove started as a peer-to-peer model but the team realized early on that the way resale best played out for clothing was actually more akin to buying a certified pre-owned vehicle – bring control back to the brand.The only way to create a really elegant experience

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00:30:18

Building Lean InsurTech SaaS with Chris Barrow...

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/02/23

Episode Highlights: Chris began his career in IT at Nintendo before the company itself had a product.As he matured in his career Chris began to refine his expertise across sectors and products to deeply understand how to approach the sales process for different conditions.Chris then walks us through the EagleView and Pictometry merger. Chris uses the metaphor of dating before marriage to exemplify how the companies became familiar with one another through their customer and supplier relationship

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00:26:57

Firsts in FinTech with Betsy Cohen (Cohen Cirle,...

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/01/31

Episode Highlights: Growing up with a physician father and social worker mother, a life of service was drilled into her from an early age for Betsy CohenAfter absolutely hating philosophy as a major, she changed her focus to law on a whimThen after law school she was awarded a prestigious internship with a law firm and performed brilliantly. However upon completion her manager conveyed that the senior leadership of the firm was not yet ready to have a woman as a professional colleague. After that

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00:27:08

What Do Headwinds Mean for Financial Instiutions?...

Commerce Conversations ·

2023/01/23

Episode Highlights: Since joining Lazard in 2002, Dima has been investing actively in public equities in financial services with long horizons. So, are we in recession? To Dima we either already are or about to experience one. However the real question is about the magnitude of such a recession.Dima started in 2002 when JPM stock went down about 50% and of course, was still an analyst in the Global Financial Crisis, and the common theme for both of those was the very high amount of leverage in the

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00:20:38

Our 2023 Predictions

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/12/21

Episode Highlights: Our Predictions, debated:1. Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) implodes.2. More than a few challenger banks look for exits, or fold.3. Private equity rolls up public former D2C retail darlings.4. Crypto winter will persist through 2023, but not forever.5. Mass merchants face headwinds while luxury booms.6. Incumbents acquire at least one venture-backed payments company for $1B+.7. Skyrocketing consumer borrowing in 2022 makes credit servicing and collections a critical category for

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00:28:47

The Trailblazer's Path with Pete Kight (CheckFree)

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/12/02

Episode Highlights: Pete grew up in Ohio with 4 other siblings with a serious amount energy, which we later found out was ADDWithout a diagnosis, Pete knew that his energy and intention meant he wouldn’t be a great employees, but entrepreneurship could be channel to funnel his drive at his own pace.Pete dropped out of college with just a quarter to complete and ended up running a chain of gyms. After spending time with some bankers he became aware of ACH that they were using to collect monthly life

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00:26:20

Insurance SaaS: The Road Less Travelled with Mike...

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/11/18

Episode Highlights: Guidewire provides a core cloud platform for property and casualty insurance providers, making the providers smarter and faster with technology. In a corp dev perspective, Mike is always looking for the next thing that will make the business more valuable to its provider customers.It’s easy to assume that when you build a new and shiny product that it will be adopted, but Mike cautions us that this simply isn’t the case in insurance. You need sector specific experts to give you

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00:24:55

Women and the Fight for FinTech with Vrinda Gupta...

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/11/03

After seeing her mother show hesitancy in the financial realm, Vrinda grew up deeply understanding that financial literacy and independence were critical to her success.Vrinda was on the Visa Chase Sapphire Reserve product team after her undergraduate study, but when she applied for the card she got rejected.Women’s discrimination in the financial sector is a complex and compounded issue: consider the wage gap making women have to utilize more credit, how women are saved for less for second

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00:26:36

Creating Checkout 3.0 with Jordan Gal (Rally) and...

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/10/14

Episode Highlights: Brandon Schulz: is the founder of Violet whoJordan Gal: is the founder of Rally. He started out as a merchant himself and jumped into the merchant software side of things.Thinking about one of the last things he bought online, which was in fact on Amazon, Brandon reflects on how Amazon sets the tone on how consumers expect to interact with checkout. Since their one-click checkout patent expires Matt reminds us that after that patent expiration the market rallied around big brand

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00:23:48

Pioneering in Web3 with Bradley Miles (Roll)

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/09/13

Episode Highlights: Bradley defines web3 and what it means to be a driver of the next generation of the internet.If the medium for exchange with a creator and the community is a currency then we are enabling individuals to create their own economies. Social tokens is a reinvention of the term “social capital” but with true fungibility and valueBradley recognizes that just in the span of 4 years recognition of crypto has completely transformed to be known by the general publicBradley sends Kendall a

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00:26:49

Understanding the Creator with Josh Constine...

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/08/23

The creator economy is now all about owning the means of distribution, no longer the means of distribution. The means of production or publication are cheaper and easier than ever, but in the creator context that means those with only the most savvy distribution models will succeed financially. One of the most damaging things you can do in Josh’s opinion is giving those early, dedicated fans underwhelming value… like rugging them in a crypto schemeJosh reflects on Facebook’s launch during his

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00:25:17

M&A That Transformed the Industry with Shveta...

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/08/09

Episode Highlights: After studying economics at USC, Shveta inadvertently fell into a career in M&A after seeing many of her peers pursue the same path. She started out at Deloitte’s mid-market investment banking practice.She then was able to steer important M&A decisions on the sell side as a leader in corporate development at Lynda, where she played a key role in Linkedin’s acquisition of the company.It was this transaction that encouraged Shveta to think beyond just the mechanics of M&A

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00:23:39

Creator Coins, More than Just Splash? with Kaya...

Commerce Conversations ·

2022/07/26

Episode Highlights: Kaya talks about the transition of individual creators and entertainment personalities as growing business people and enterprises.Kendall and Kaya define what a social token actually is and how it’s used in today’s context, even though the majority of creators haven’t begun creating coins.80% of creators rely on brand partnerships and Kaya believed that will continue to be the bread and butter of creator income however now more than ever there are more options to monetize.The two

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