In this episode, Dirk and Kelly speak with Guillaume on how Checkout.com became a leader in payments so quickly (and a decacorn along the way), why the existing payment infrastructure is so old/inefficient and what could be done to improve it, thoughts on cryptocurrency, and the future of payments and Checkout.com's role in that landscape

Checkout.com Founder/CEO, Guillaume Pousaz, on the Future of Commerce Payments

Step inside commercetools with Dirk and Kelly as they sit down with commercetools’ own CFO, Dan Murphy. This is an enlightening discussion around company efficiencies, key metrics to judge the health of a SaaS business, and what metrics to look for at various stages of company growth. Are your customers renewing? What does it cost to acquire a customer? Are the company goals aligned with its employees? How efficient is the sales organization? Is revenue growth the end all be all? Tune in to gain a CFO's perspective on this and more.

00:50: Introduction to commercetools, CFO, Dan Murphy
01:52: What does a CFO do?
04:14: Defining key metrics use to judge the health of a SaaS business (NRR, GRR, CAC + CAC payback, LTV, ARR/employee, Quick ratio, Magic number)
10:42: What is the rule of 40 as a metric and is it outdated?
16:04: Key metrics to look for at various stages of growth - Seed round, IPO, pre-revenue...
20:25: The market for enterprise SaaS has dramatically changed. Dan summarizes the market from ~2020 -> present day. What is valued today vs. a few years ago
26:35: At what point should VC-backed enterprise B2B SaaS aim for profitability?
35:44: When/why do you IPO? Tell us about that process

The ABC's of SaaS Finance with commercetools CFO Dan Murphy

Dirk and Kelly sit down with Express's VP of Enterprise Architecture, Commerce and Enterprise Integration, Brendan Gualdoni to discuss how commerce platforms have changed over the decades and how Express has modernized their stack over the past few years. Brendan spent many years at Sears, which was an early eCommerce pioneer in the 1990's and later moved to Express where he's responsible for eCommerce technology and architecture
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#023 Express's Commerce Platform Journey With Brendan Gualdoni

Ronan Tighe, CPO of Moonpig, talks about their business model, why they as a DNVB have the role of CPO, how they roadmap, and what their current and future tech stack looks like. Ronan was formerly head of product at Net-a-Porter & Mr Porter

#026 Commerce Technology At Moonpig, One Of World's Largest DNVBs

Jan Hegewald, head of Zalando's product offer platform, joined Dirk and Kelly to discuss how Europe's largest and most innovative online fashion retailer manages its 2,000+ microservices across 200+ teams, with its 2,000+ technical employees. In this episode, we discuss how Zalando is structured, how they balance the need for centralization vs. the need for distributed innovation, their engagement with various open source communities, how they've instilled a culture of technical innovation and evangelism, and more.

#027 Microservices At Scale With Zalando's Head Of Product Offer Platform

In this episode, we chat about Akamai's near ubiquitous role in delivering commerce experiences, how they approach computing at the edge, how they're improving the calls between "heads" and the backend application(s), how they prepare for Black Friday / Cyber Monday, and how they recommend that you prepare for Black Friday / Cyber Monday.

#028 Holiday Preparedness With Akamai's Vicki Reyzelman And Rahul Jain

As chief architect of Intershop, co-founder and chief architect of Demandware, CPO/CTO of NewStore, and now board member at Frontastic and strategic consultant, Ulrike has seen and been part of the many shifts shaping the commerce platform market. Join us for a trip down memory lane and a look toward the future
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#030 Demandware Co - Founder And ECommerce Pioneer Ulrike Mueller

David is a long-time marketing consultant who is founder and CEO of the Customer Data Platform Institute. In this episode, we discuss what CDPs are, what type of data they typically contain, how they differ from DMPs, how CDPs intersect with commerce, and how CDPs can help comply with data privacy regulations such as GDPR

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#031 Founder And CEO Of The Customer Data Platform Institute

In this episode, Dirk and Kelly sit down with Amplience's Founder/CEO, James Brooke to discuss the early days of enterprise SaaS, Amplience's founding story, the alphabet soup of acronyms that are commonly used in the industry, where the industry is headed, their relationship with analysts, where Amplience is headed and much more,,

#33 Demystifying The CMS Space With Ampliences Founder CEO James Brooke

PPG is a manufacturing giant with more than $16 billion in revenue. They produce paints, coatings and other specialty materials and operate in more than 70 countries. Devashish joined last year as CDO to lead their digital transformation. With more than 35 ERPs and many more systems of record, Devashish talks through the practicalities of digital transformation at scale.

#49 PPG's CDO, Devashish Saxena, On PPG's Digital Transformation

In a first-ever for the Commerce Tomorrow podcast, we recorded a live episode on Clubhouse. We were joined by Mihaela Mazzenga (CTO of Sharper Image), Devashish Saxena (CDO of PPG Industries), Kunal Mukherjee-Chakraborty (CDO of GrandVision), Alex Shiferman (CTO of Nuts.com) and Tim Daneliuk (head of architecture of Zoro U.S.)

#52 Roundtable Live On Clubhouse - How To Deploy Commerce To Production Every Second

COMMERCE TOMORROW is a podcast series hosted by tech entrepreneurs and ecommerce veterans Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig discussing the latest developments and technologies used at global brands and retailers that are at the forefront of growth and innovation. Listen in to interviews with recognized technology leaders and learn how technology is driving their business.

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