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A few seats left at a dinner during LA Tech Week built for ecommerce leaders 🍷 🥩 Intentionally small. No slides, no pitch, off the record. Founders and heads of ecommerce, growth, and marketing at consumer brands who own the page or the number, comparing notes six weeks before Black Friday. Off the Record Tuesday October 13, 6:30 to 9 pm Arts District. Argentinian food, malbec, a private patio. Every RSVP is reviewed. If you run a consumer brand in LA and want an evening with people doing the same, request a seat here: https://lnkd.in/gQRY6hCi TECH WEEK by a16z #LATechWeek #ecommerce #DTC Know someone who belongs at this table? Send it to them.

For most of my 20s, I was financially supporting my family. There was no option to not get paid. Starting a company wasn't a choice I could make. Now I have that freedom. And I don't take it lightly. My husband and I talk about it all the time. The gratitude we have to be able to wake up every morning and intentionally choose how we're carving out our lives. That's not nothing. That's everything. Does it mean no hard days? No. The startup world has plenty of ups and downs and we've been through a lot of them. But every morning it's a choice. And I feel stronger because of it. I also have two young daughters. I don't know what the world looks like for them in 20 years. I don't know what jobs will exist, what education will look like, whether degrees will mean the same thing. But I know I'm not on the sidelines. The playbooks are being thrown out the window. All of them. Which honestly means now is the best time, because nobody has the advantage of experience anymore. I spent years saying I was going to build something. I was in my 20s when I first thought about it. I'm in my 30s now and I'm finally doing it. That's what building from a position of strength looks like to me. "You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. You cannot have both." - Brené Brown

See you on the Croisette? Cannes Lions is the one week a year the entire industry lands in the same place. This year AI and creativity is the conversation everywhere you turn. But here’s the part that gets me: for the entire history of advertising, you spent first and learned after. Run it, burn the budget, find out what worked once the money’s gone. AI just flipped it. Now you can know what lands before you spend. After a career in data science, that’s the most exciting shift I've seen in marketing. I'll be there 22-26 June. If that’s your kind of conversation, coffee’s on me and I'd love to connect. #CannesLions #CannesLions2026

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Just got back from DTC Wine Symposium in Monterey, and the takeaway was loud and clear: DTC is entering an AI-driven era, and the gap between top and bottom performers is widening fast. Here are the biggest themes I heard: - 1) DTC is splitting into winners and laggards. Commerce7 data showed overall DTC softness, but the real story is the spread. Operational excellence across people, technology, and process is a big part of what separates the winners. - 2) AI is becoming a primary discovery channel. 81% of consumers use AI for shopping and product research. If your products and brand aren’t structured in a way AI can interpret, you risk being absent from recommendations. - 3) The hidden bottleneck is data operations. Brands are losing enormous time to manual tasks, messy CRM integrations, and inconsistent product info. That drag shows up everywhere, from email performance to club retention. 💡 A few more insights (and what this signals): https://lnkd.in/gUGdfjsX Winning the next phase of commerce requires structured, reusable product truth that powers AI search visibility and personalization. That’s exactly what we’re building at eLLMo AI. #AICommerce #DataStrategy #GEO #AEO #AgenticCommerce

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