Category: Thoughts

• A Conversation Around WooCommerce Blocks

  I recently joined Bob and his hew co-host Noëlle Steegs from Do The Woo to talk about our work on the WooCommerce Blocks. It was a great conversation with both of them, my colleague, Darren Ethier and Manos Psychogyiopoulos, Head of Product at SomewhereWarm. We covered our current work on the new Cart and Checkout…

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• Just P2 it!

  I came across this tweet recently and it made me think how fortunate we are to have a product like P2 at Automattic. Ask yourself: Could this meeting be a zoom?Could this zoom be a phone call?Could this phone call be an email?Could this email be a text?Could this text be unsent? Could we in…

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• The rise of online checkout and identity products

  It was interesting to note recently that Fast.co closed a $102 million Series B. As that TechCrunch article goes on to share: In the “last month we’ve seen $927 million — at least — flow into startups with overlapping ecommerce infrastructure market targets. TechCrunch That’s a pretty significant amount of investment into a relatively ‘new’…

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• Where does it stop?

  Halloween, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas Elves, Christmas Jumpers – as we run into the end of 2019 I had a moment the other day where I wondered – where will it all stop? Where will the commercialisation of everything actually stop? I can imagine a day in the not too distant future where there…

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• Own don’t rent

  As of today, December 10th, Creative Market increased the commission they take on each sale from 30% to 40% – yes that’s a 33% increase. They announced this change to shop owners in an email a few weeks back and it created a lot of discussion on the Creative Market community forums amongst shop owners.…

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