Hosted by Chord Commerce · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 26 episodes
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Unfiltered conversations with operators behind iconic commerce brands, hosted by Chord Commerce CEO Bryan Mahoney, about what actually makes their tech, teams, and customer relationships work.
Chord Commerce hosts Brilliant Commerce, a business show with 26 episodes published.
Dina Rosenbloom didn't join Hairstory to maintain a brand. She joined to rebuild one and get it to retail. As CEO of a 10-year-old company built on a product that asks customers to stop shampooing, she's learned that cat
Brian Berger came into consumer from a consumer internet background, and that combination is exactly why Mack Weldon was built the way it was: a brand with a direct customer relationship at its core, a data-informed oper
What separates brand builders who last from those who chase performance forever? Doug Zarkin has spent three decades answering that question across franchise, retail, and direct selling, and his framework is more transfe
Nearly 50% retention in a category where most brands are lucky to hit half that. That number, which Mila Mendez doesn't deny is in the ballpark, is the clearest signal that True Botanicals has figured something out most
Michael Natenshon built Marine Layer starting from a single T-shirt he could not replace, spent a year and a half developing custom fabric from scratch, and then opened a pop-up shop purely to collect email addresses. Th
Most brands treat their website as the transaction. Dude Wipes treats it as the handoff, routing visitors directly to Walmart, Target, Amazon, and club rather than pushing a native cart. It sounds like leaving money on t
Draper James cut promotional days significantly last year and saw margin expansion plus AOV increases. VP of E-commerce and Brand Marketing Piper Parsley walked CEO Jeannie Yoo (who joined in October) through the strateg
Johnny Russo built digital commerce operations across Canadian retail for nearly 20 years, including running digital at Marks (a $1.3 billion, 300+ store operation under Canadian Tire) and transforming wholesale operatio
When JP Beeghly, Senior Manager of Martech at Sonos, asks Chord's Commerce Copilot more questions than anyone else in their customer base, it's not because he's looking for basic answers. He's stress-testing whether AI c
Lance Dobson spent 15 years across agency, Adobe Ad Cloud for search, and commerce brands before landing at Shed, a telehealth weight loss company. His path revealed something counterintuitive: healthcare compliance cons
Most commerce leaders have either agency experience or operator experience. Corin Mills spent four years at Wolff Olins as the designated client voice inside a global branding agency, then led a rebrand consolidating 11
Ricky Joshi bootstrapped Saatva to nearly $200M in revenue with a 14-person ecommerce team while venture-funded competitors burned capital on customer acquisition. His approach: retail locations as integrated conversion
Nick Sanetra has spent nearly 20 years identifying what he calls "holes in the bucket." As Director of Marketing at Clove, a footwear brand purpose-built for healthcare workers on 12-hour shifts, Nick deploys a methodica
When customer acquisition declines, most CEOs blame marketing. When retention drops, they blame lifecycle. Justin Fredlender spent five years as VP of Growth at Ritual learning why both diagnoses miss the point, and why
Belkin's Senior Director of E-commerce tested AI chatbots for customer service beyond basic order tracking, then deliberately pulled back to human agents for relationship-critical moments. Jyoti Malik explains why most o
Forbes consistently ranks in the top five most trusted publications in the US, but that credibility means nothing if you can't monetize it. Emily Jackson reveals how Forbes Vetted has had to completely rebuild their reve
When a premium olive oil brand discovers ChatGPT is driving thousands of dollars in monthly revenue with zero paid spend, it signals a fundamental shift in how consumer education creates both immediate sales and long-ter
In this episode of Brilliant Commerce, I sit down with Jason Bertrand, VP of E-commerce at Purple, to unpack lessons from his journey scaling D2C operations from Under Armour's early $20M online business to Purple's $450
In this episode of Brilliant Commerce, Tina Gu, CFO & Head of Digital Growth at Sarah Creal Beauty, breaks down the strategic decisions behind building a beauty brand exclusively for women over 40. With M&A experience fr
Ben Grynol, Head of Growth at Levels, offers a counterintuitive approach to commerce: building an entire health category through education rather than conversion-focused marketing. In this episode of Brilliant Commerce,
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