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Dear Walmart & Jet: One Thing I Would Do

As the battle with Amazon continues to heat up, Walmart has the best chance to play offense in categories where Amazon either isn’t focused or isn’t succeeding. While both companies are competing heavily in the private label world, Amazon continues…

Dear Netflix: One Thing I Would Do

As you continue to produce show after show and movie after movie, with hundreds more in the pipeline, you have an emerging opportunity that will not only grow Netflix revenue, but also deepen the relationship between your service and its…

Dear SSENSE: One Thing I Would Do

SSENSE is one of the top digital-first luxury retailers in the world. You’ve gotten there by putting aesthetics, simplicity and function at the forefront, creating a vision and experience that is built around the modern shopper. But SSENSE has the…

Building Bulletproof Brands

How the internet destroyed traditional moats for physical goods companies.

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Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: the success of Amazon Prime

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: the success of Amazon Prime

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: The rising costs of digital customer acquisition

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: The rising costs of digital customer acquisition

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: Amazon versus Walmart

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: Amazon versus Walmart

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: Building Bulletproof Brands

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: Building Bulletproof Brands

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: The reemergence of wholesale

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: The reemergence of wholesale

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: Fast fashion’s dominance and blind spots

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: Fast fashion’s dominance and blind spots

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: Emerging retail experiences

Guiding next-generation consumer companies on: Emerging retail experiences

As Facebook advertising costs rise, digitally-native brands turn to traditional advertising

Big brands need to unbundle themselves if they want to survive

The gift and curse of Amazon’s margin mentality

Why is Walmart intentionally launching brands outside its ecosystem?

Antiscale — with Charlie Ambler of Strike Gently Co

Performance & Perspective — with Yehua Yang of Pivotte

The (Invisible) Long Tail of Packaging — with Stephan Ango of Lumi

Sleepless Nights — with Ariel Kaye of Parachute Home

Reinventing Plus Size from the Ground Up — with Nadia Boujarwah of Dia&Co

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