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953: Lessons From the Mobile Era | Rodrigo Brumana, CFO, Poshmark

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Episode Highlights The Shift to Mobile: CFO Brumana reflects back on the technology shift from desktop to mobile as it relates to online shoppers and how marketplaces discovered that they needed to quickly reallocate their capital away from desktop-only projects in order to attract more app developers from the mobile world.

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Cool, Comfort And Ecology — The Allbirds Secret To Retail Success

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And our perspective is that the footwear category has gotten lazy when it comes to using natural or sustainable materials.”. The merino wool blend they use is proprietary, and the price tag for one pair is $95. “We’re not making the materials. We’re finding them,” Allbirds Co-CEO Tim Brown said. Allbirds’ total funding comes to $27.5

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Five Lessons In Retail Reinvention From 2019

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Sustainability became a theme, and while during the early part of the decade consumers glommed onto fast fashion to create an ever-rotating wardrobe of new pieces, toward the end consumers became less enamored of the idea of filling landfills with their discarded fast fashion items. . The goal for next year? More growth, of course.

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Brighterion CEO: How AI Can Stop Criminals Who Win By Gaming Banking Rules

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Criminal organizations are constantly developing new ways to take on systems, with the express intent of outsmarting the rules engine. The goal going forward, he told Webster, is “thinking AI-based systems,” designed to bring down the false-positives and spot emerging fraud patterns in real time.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. We need to spend roughly 50% of GDP on the climate crisis for several years sustained in order to actually avert it.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: That doesn’t build a long-term sustainable company, but that’s the type of pressure that public companies have. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. And by the way, every goal, not every goal, most goals require some financial component.

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Why Grayson Is Trying Fashion’s First-Ever DTC-Wholesale Hybrid

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That customer fit comes care of a very long research period in developing the firm’s signature shirt stylings. Highly praised though it is by the rich and the famous, the brand is not exactly well known for having the most accessible price tag on the market. Paying with someone else’s money ultimately isn’t sustainable, she said.

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