The Watson Weekly - Your Essential eCommerce Digest
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The Watson Weekly - Your Essential eCommerce Digest
Join Rick Watson, 20+ year eCommerce veteran and CEO & Founder of RMW Commerce, to hear all the latest in the world of eCommerce — from established players like Amazon and Shopify to the new startups, fresh off their latest round of funding. From Marketplaces to Direct-to-Consumer to Supply Chain to...
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October 13th, 2025: Process Re-Engineering Is a Key Skill in the Age of AI, Stripe Link Moving More Consumer Facing, Is OpenAI Building a Super App? And Shopify CRO Bobby Morrison Forced Out
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
The CEO Spot with Matt Harris of Harris Digital
In this second episode of The CEO Spot, Rick Watson sits down with Matt Harris, Founder of Harris Digital.
The interviews were conducted at Sho...
October 6th, 2025: ChatGPT Is Actually The Ultimate In Influencer-Driven Commerce and OpenAI x Stripe Agentic Commerce Protocol Has Makings of Silicon Valley Catfight
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
September 29th, 2025: What the Hell Will Happen At Tiktok? Ryder Releases New eCommerce Study, Klaviyo Innovations Made Possible By Different Ecosystem Approach, and OpenAI Announces They Are Pursuing Ads
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
September 22nd, 2025: Google and Paypal Announce New Commerce Partnership, Fireside Chat With Andy Jassy at Amazon Accelerate Conference, and The First Q4 Holiday Predictions Appear
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
September 15th, 2025: The Future is Less If Then And More Prompts, Agents, and MCP - A SVP Looks to the Future
We have a special episode of the podcast this week. Today we preview a new podcast from RMW Commerce — actually a Youtube Exclusive, called “Oh Shift!...
September 8th, 2025: Shopify Betting Big on Design, Amazon Still Stuck Muddling Through Day 2, Why Software Sales Is Still Hard in 2025, A New Podcast where SaaS Meets AI: Oh Shift
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
September 1st, 2025: Best Buy Relaunches Its Marketplace, Target Earnings: Like a Slow-Moving Train Wreck, Upcoming RMW Commerce Events in Second Half of the Year, and Walmart Raises Revenue Guidance in Earnings Call
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
August 25th, 2025: Shipping Smackdown: Nate Skiver on the Parcel Industry's Biggest Myth
Join Rick and special guest Nate Skiver, founder of LPF Spend Management, as they dive into a fiery discussion about the state of shipping in e-commer...
August 18th, 2025: We Once Made a Deal with Google. The Deal Has Changed, The Unspoken AI Enthusiasm Gap At Large Companies, The Road Ahead for Commerce.com, and An Update On Gnawing Your Arm Off, or Replatforming
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
August 11th, 2025: Amazon Reports Earnings, Dogged by AI Questions, Shopify Q2 Earnings Show Its Not Going Anywhere, Klaviyo Delivers Growth, But Efficiency Still Lacking, and Recap from Austin: Auctane’s Spicy Innovation Delivered Event
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 4 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
August 4th, 2025: Bigcommerce Rebrands as Just Commerce, UPS Q2 Earnings Highlights Strange Economic Times, Last Flight of the Aggregator: OpenStore Valuation Burns, and Amazon Pulled out of Google Shopping for AI, not for Advertising
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
The CEO Spot: From Silicon Chips to Supply Chains – Dipti Desai’s Mission to Modernize EDI
In this debut episode of The CEO Spot, Rick Watson sits down with Dipti Desai, Founder and CEO of crstl, for an unfiltered look into one of the most q...
July 14th, 2025: NRF Files Suit Against NY State Law, Why Is There No Best Practice for ECommerce Org Structure, Amazon Quietly Cornering Market on Robot Patents, and LuluLemon in Markdown Hell
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
June 30th, 2025: Klarna CEO Claims They Will Be a Super App, Walmart Investor Event Sheds New Light, Should You Put a Chatbot In Front Of Your Retail Store, and Musings from CommerceNext and Mirakl’s Summit
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
June 23rd, 2025: Saks Global Still Sounds in Trouble, Facebook Says eCommerce is Great -- For Other People, Jassy’s AI Memo Was a Snoozefest, In a Good Way, and Amazon Extending Prime Day Doesn’t Give me Warm Fuzzies
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
June 16th, 2025: Palantir Partners with Bolt, Amazon Releases AI Video Generation Tools, Sezzle Sues Shopify For AntiCompetitive Practices, and Walmart Releases New AI Tools
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
June 9th, 2025: Shopify MCP Server Raises More Questions Than Answers, Could the AI Race Become a Hardware Race, and Temu Half Off - Just In Time For Summer
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
June 2nd, 2025: Salesforce to acquire Informatica, Social Commerce Panel Reveals Influencer Importance, Lowes Launches Its Marketplace, and Tariff Feud Event with Passport Recap
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
Special Episode: Scott Eckert on Leading Mirakl and the Marketplace Revolution
In this special CEO spotlight edition of the Watson Weekly, host Rick Watson welcomes Scott Eckert, newly appointed CEO of Mirakl, for an inside look...
May 26th, 2025: Rapid Fire Headline Update and Shopify Releases Its Summer Editions
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
Special Episode from Shopware Partner Day– Pimcore & the Data Layer Revolution in B2B
Today’s Watson Weekly is a special edition that is one of a series of three interviews recorded at Shopware’s Partner Day on April 24th, 2025. These...
May 19th, 2025: Amazon Announces New AI Tool to Enhance Product Listings, Venture Capital Dominated by AI Right Now, FedEx and Amazon Strike Up a Partnership, and Klaviyo Reports Q1 2025 Earnings
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
Special Episode from Shopware Partner Day– Conscious Commerce & Regulated Realities: The Aysnd Way
Today’s Watson Weekly is a special edition that is one of a series of three interviews recorded at Shopware’s Partner Day on April 24th, 2025. These...
May 12th, 2025: Shopify Needs Incentive Alignment to Win in Enterprise, 3 Notables From BigCommerce earnings call, Instacart CEO Departs for OpenAI, and Shopify Reports Solid Earnings Amid Global Uncertainty
In this week’s Watson Weekly, we will discuss Fidji Simo is out at Instacart CEO to join OpenAI. This is a huge feather in Simo’s cap and leaves an o...
Special Episode from Shopware Partner Day– Inside B2B Growth: Smith Commerce on Scaling Smart
Today’s Watson Weekly is a special edition that is one of a series of three interviews recorded at Shopware’s Partner Day on April 24th, 2025. These...
May 5th, 2025: Amazon Reports Q1 2025 Earnings, Walmart Releases an Annual Shareholder Letter, UPS Reports Q1 2025 Earnings, and Kohl’s Fires Its CEO
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
Turning Tariffs into Tactics — Cross-Border Commerce in 2025 with Alex Yancher, CEO of Passport
In this insightful episode, The Watson Weekly welcomes Alex Yancher (Yon-cher), CEO of Passport, just hours after the U.S. government announced sweepi...
April 28th, 2025: Composable Conference in Chicago shows MACH progress, ChatGPT and Shopify partnership teased, and Shopify promotes internally for Chief Design Officer: What's going on?
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
April 21st, 2025: Walmart Investor Day shows strong tariff headwinds, is 2025 the year to eat the entire enchilada, Shop for Brands on Amazon seen in the wild, and Amazon surveys its sellers on tariffs
Is Walmart More Exposed to Tariffs Than They Are Admitting?
In a recent investor day, Walmart indicated that only one-third of its products are...
The Debate: Is Replatforming Worth It?
The biggest debate in eCommerce.
The business case for replatforming
Replatforming can either be trying to use a band-aid on a large wound...
Redefining Retail: Commercetools, InStore, and the Future of Unified Commerce – A Conversation with Dirk Hoerig
In this special episode of The Watson Weekly, we sit down with Dirk Hoerig, co-founder of Commercetools, to explore the company’s journey from Germany...
April 7th, 2025: Key takeaways on public and private markets, Shoptalk did not answer my key industry questions, Consumers getting stressed out, and Amazon makes last minute bid to buy TikTok
Is There a Worse Owner For TikTok Than Amazon?
Look, I am going to bottom line it for you guys. I can’t think of a worse owner for Tiktok than...
Watson Weekly: Navigating the Digital Commerce Maze with Bryan House
Why is digital commerce still hitting roadblocks in 2025? In this special episode, Bryan House of Elastic Path joins us to unpack the paradox: compani...
March 31st, 2025: Shoptalk Recap
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
March 24th, 2025: Adobe teases new commerce offerings, BigCommerce launches new account functionality, Klarna files IPO paperwork, and welcome to Shoptalk Week!
Is Adobe Hopeless or Will The New Product Teases Get Them Back in the Game?
This week on the Watson Weekly podcast, we unpack two new product an...
March 17th, 2025: Paypal in hot water over its Honey application, AllBirds sales plunge in 2024, why did Walmart buy a mall? And upcoming eCommerce debate event at Shoptalk
Is Paypal Running an Affiliate Scam? That’s What Google’s New Chrome Rules Seem to Be Saying. Many users don’t realize that Paypal’s Honey Applicati...
March 10th, 2025: Target 2024 earnings shows company falling behind, when will merchants stop treating data as a project? Commercetools layoffs throws into question IPO plans, and has Shopify Enterprise turned a corner?
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
March 3rd, 2025: Is Beyond.com doomed? Klaviyo reports 2024 earnings, Klaviyo coming for Salesforce Service Cloud, and Paypal Investor Day offers problematic vision
Today on our show:
- and finally, The Investor Minute which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs...
February 24th, 2025: Walmart reports fiscal year 2025 earnings, Saks stopped paying vendors on time, TikTok subscriptions could help creators, and BigCommerce reports 2024 earnings
Today on our show:
And finally, The Investor Minute, which contains 5 items this week from the world of venture capital, acquisitions, and IPOs....