Lndn Gray Co-Founder Tyler Straub is a creative director, photographer, and entrepreneur with more than 13 years of experience building and scaling high-growth brands across the creative, technology, and consumer sectors. Before launching Lndn Gray in 2023, Tyler held leadership roles at high-growth companies including Blade, Bird, and Gametime, where he became known for cross-functional…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Dan bootstrapped Unbound Merino from a Reddit-fueled obsession with merino wool into a brand approaching nine figures in lifetime revenue, with a warehouse sale, a growing women’s line, and zero outside funding. In his second appearance on the DTC Podcast, the Unbound co-founder gets specific about what actually moved…
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What does it take to build a travel brand for the way people actually live, move, pack, and go today?
On today’s episode, we welcome Adeela Hussain Johnson, CEO of BÉIS — the travel and lifestyle brand reimagining luggage, bags, and accessories for life on the go.
Adeela has helped scale BÉIS into a $250M+ global business by staying focused on thoughtful design, functionality, accessibility, and disciplined growth. As the company has expanded across categories, channels, and markets, she has helped navigate the shift from startup momentum to building a business designed to last.
In this episode, we talk about growth, leadership, and the hard decisions that come when a company gets big enough that saying “no” becomes more important than saying “yes.” Adeela shares a candid look at what it really takes to scale a modern consumer brand—and why the challenges only get more interesting as the business gets bigger.
If you’re building a company, leading a team, or navigating growth at any stage, you’ll want to hear this conversation.
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Presented by Kasm Technologies Enterprise infrastructure teams have spent the better part of a decade pushing workloads into Kubernetes. Applications, APIs, batch jobs, data pipelines — if it runs in a container, it belongs in the cluster. The operational benefits are well-established: declarative configuration, horizontal scaling, self-healing, native integration with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling….
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Ankit Jadav is the Global Head of Digital Operations at Portmeirion Group, home to six unique homeware and fragrance brands with a combined 750 years of trading… including Spode, Portmeirion, Royal Worcester, Nambe, Pimpernel and Wax Lyrical. Turnover is now £110,000,000 of which 10% is DTC. In this episode, Ankit shares how his team…
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DeepSeek’s recent decision to drastically cut pricing on its V4-Pro model by 75% should have been unequivocally good news for enterprise AI vendors and developers. Instead, many are discovering that cheaper models don’t automatically translate into healthier margins. The reason is simple: While inference costs plummet, agent systems are voraciously consuming tokens faster than prices are…
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Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, they unknowingly grant cybercriminals access to their software from day one. Understanding what slopsquatting is Slopsquatting is a new type of supply chain attack that uses large language model (LLM) hallucinations to inject malicious code…
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Nutrition and supplement company AG1 famously built a $600 million business off of a single SKU. Then, in 2025, the brand made major leaps by introducing new flavors and a sleep supplement. CEO Kat Cole speaks with Modern Retail’s Melissa Daniels about how the brand grew its next generation of products from its own scientific…
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An enterprise AI agent answers with total confidence, but the number is wrong. Nobody catches it until someone traces it back to a stale metric definition or a document the retrieval system never pulled. The model did not fail. The context it was given did. In the past six months, 57% of enterprises traced a…
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OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across users’ email, calendars, code repositories, and messaging apps. The product is powered by OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-5.6, and…
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