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The Kara Goldin Show | 853 Rachel Solomon: Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Boarderie

What if gifting actually felt thoughtful again?
On today’s episode, we welcome Rachel Solomon, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Boarderie — a company rethinking a category that hasn’t evolved much in decades. Instead of predictable gift baskets, Boarderie delivers fully arranged, premium cheese and charcuterie boards nationwide — designed to feel more like an experience than just another package.
Launched in 2021, the company didn’t just improve the model — it challenged it. And while legacy players are seeing slower growth, Boarderie is scaling quickly, staying profitable, and tapping into what consumers actually want today: something more personal, more elevated, and more memorable.
In this episode, Rachel shares why the category was ready for change, how they’ve been able to scale so quickly without compromising quality, and what’s really driving modern gifting decisions.
If you’re building in a crowded space or thinking about how to differentiate in a legacy category — this one’s worth your time. Tune in now on The Kara Goldin Show.

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To learn more about Rachel Solomon and Boarderie:
https://boarderie.com/
https://www.instagram.com/boarderie/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/boarderie/
https://www.instagram.com/rach_solo/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-solomon-fascitelli-6a0a82119/

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The Kara Goldin Show
The Kara Goldin Show | 853 Rachel Solomon: Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Boarderie
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Why Weibo’s tiny VibeThinker-3B has the AI world arguing over benchmarks again

On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial intelligence — quietly posted a 14-page technical report to arXiv that sent shockwaves through the AI research community. Their claim: a language model with just 3 billion parameters can…

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eCommerce Fastlane | Conversion Before Acquisition: How OptiMonk Uses AI to Turn Paid Traffic Into Sales

Paying more for ads while 97% of your Shopify traffic leaves without buying? The cheaper growth lever is conversion, not acquisition. In this episode, Krisztian Kiraly, International Partnership Manager at OptiMonk and former CRO agency founder, breaks down: How one brand lifted revenue 12% in under three months using AI product-page optimization, no extra ad…

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eCommerce Fastlane
eCommerce Fastlane | Conversion Before Acquisition: How OptiMonk Uses AI to Turn Paid Traffic Into Sales
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Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate “long-horizon” autonomous coding and engineering tasks. Available immediately on Hugging Face, the Z.ai API, and more than 20 third-party coding environments, the model boasts a highly stable 1-million-token context…

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Databricks says it solved the decades-old data pipeline problem that’s been slowing AI agents

For decades, data professionals have struggled with the challenge of managing both operational and analytical databases in a unified approach that doesn’t introduce latency and performance degradation. Agents made the problem structural. A system that reasons continuously and acts on live data cannot tolerate a pipeline between itself and the information it needs to act…

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Stanford’s DeLM cuts multi-agent task costs 50% — without a central orchestrator

One of the assumptions behind today’s AI frameworks is that agents require a “boss” at the center; this orchestrator runs the show, routes requests, and makes sure the whole system doesn’t descend into chaos. That assumption may be wrong, and the cost of carrying it could be measured in inference dollars and coordination latency. A…

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The Ecommerce Playbook | 12 Years of Agency Knowledge in One Document

Taylor Holiday reveals the system CTC built to deploy 12 years of ecommerce knowledge across every brand they manage. From AI-powered scouting reports for his son’s Little League team to the Canon, CTC’s institutional playbook, and the MCP database now free for every client. Topics covered: How AI + unique knowledge + the right data…

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The Ecommerce Playbook Podcast
The Ecommerce Playbook Podcast
The Ecommerce Playbook | 12 Years of Agency Knowledge in One Document
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BRAVE COMMERCE | Episode Bar Keeper’s Friend’s Felicia Zhang on Building Brands Through Iteration

In this episode of BRAVE COMMERCE, Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter sit down with Felicia Zhang, Head of Marketing at Bar Keeper’s Friend, to discuss what it takes to modernize an iconic brand while maintaining the trust that made it successful in the first place. Drawing on experience across global brands including Nike, Oreo, and…

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Brave Commerce
BRAVE COMMERCE | Episode Bar Keeper's Friend's Felicia Zhang on Building Brands Through Iteration
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Commerce Famous Podcast | Special Edition: Shopware Community Day w/BOLDEST

Host Jason Nyhus sat down with Sydney Maringas and Ramy Youssef from Boldest at Shopware Community Day to unpack their take on Sebastian Hamann’s keynote on Shopware’s product vision and strategy for the AI-powered future.

Their reaction? The keynote was both impressive and highly engaging, particularly because it focused on something many companies overlook: building the right infrastructure for AI commerce. A standout moment was seeing Boldest’s PathWay integration with Shopware Copilot featured on stage.

So what is Boldest’s PathWay product? It’s conversational commerce—but not in the traditional sense.

Using Boldest’s proprietary PQRST framework (Price, Quality, Relevancy, Scope, and Timeline), PathWay helps shoppers find exactly what they need by presenting a highly curated set of results. Rather than overwhelming buyers with endless choices, it builds confidence by narrowing options to the most relevant outcomes. Even more interesting, PathWay doesn’t rely on a predefined journey. The platform dynamically builds pages in real time based on shopper intent. The AI understands what the buyer is trying to accomplish, asks the right questions, and guides the purchasing journey without ever forcing the customer to leave the storefront.

The discussion also explored a critical topic for the future of commerce AI: predictability.

As the Boldest team shared, successful AI implementations require consistency across latency, cost, accuracy, and outcomes. That’s why Shopware’s focus on building the infrastructure layer for AI commerce resonated so strongly. When the infrastructure is in place, intelligent applications can leverage it effectively—connecting data sources, applying fine-tuning where needed, and orchestrating AI experiences that actually deliver business value.

Other key topics from the conversation included:
🔹 AI fine-tuning for ecommerce-specific use cases
🔹 Data sovereignty and governance controls that determine what information remains internal and what can be shared with LLMs
🔹 Intelligent seller and marketplace management across complex multi-brand and multi-vendor environments
🔹 Agentic commerce experiences that can take action, not just provide recommendations

As AI continues to evolve from assisting shoppers to actively participating in commerce workflows, the conversation around infrastructure, governance, and intelligent orchestration becomes more important than ever. Tune in to hear the discussion!

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Commerce Famous Podcast | Special Edition: Shopware Community Day w/BOLDEST
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Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out entire industries, echoing the damage done by globalization

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a sweeping essay on Sunday laying out what he describes as the defining economic challenge of the AI era: the risk that a handful of frontier models will absorb the expertise of entire industries and commoditize it, leaving businesses stripped of their competitive moats. “The last thing any of us…

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