#250 - Roy Rubin, Magento - From UCLA Dorm Room to $200+ BILLION in GMV
DTC POD: How The Best Brands Are Built
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On this episode of DTC Pod, Roy joins Blaine & Ramon to talk about building one of the largest e-commerce platforms, closing down his services business and betting everything on the Magento opportunity, leveraging open source for early growth, building a community that lives & breathes your product, the ethos around building an amazing product, market timing, building developer first, startup vs. corporate culture, navigating an acquisition, looking back at Shopify vs. Magento, investing at R2, exciting technology trends, building companies again, and more.
Past guests & brands on DTC Pod include Gilt, PopSugar, Glossier, MadeIN, Prose, Bala, P.volve, Ritual, Bite, Oura, Levels, General Mills, Mid Day Squares, Prose, Arrae, Olipop, Ghia, Rosaluna, Form, Uncle Studios & many more.
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Roy Rubin)** - Was the Co-founder and CEO of Magento)Ramon Berrios) - CEO of Trend.io)Blaine Bolus) - Co-Founder of **Seated)