In 2019 Dane Witbeck had a problem familiar to parents: What were his kids doing on their smartphones? That problem became his motivation to launch Pinwheel, an Austin, Texas-based seller of Android phones with parental controls for apps, usage limits, monitoring, and more. Fast forward to 2026, and Pinwheel is thriving and profitable. In this…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Most brands are quietly killing themselves with growth hacks. Swapping button colors, chasing this week’s ROI, discounting to hit the number. Duncan, Strategy Lead at Pilothouse, makes the case that this is the worst creative strategy there is, and walks through what actually builds a brand that lasts. Duncan…
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Turning skincare into ritual — and luxury into something deeply personal — that’s the magic ✨
On The Kara Goldin Show, I sit down with Lejla Cas, Founder of KNESKO Skin — a brand blending advanced skincare science with energetic wellness, intention, and self-care.
We talk about building a luxury beauty brand that goes beyond surface-level results, why longevity and skin barrier health are becoming such important conversations, and how Lejla turned an unconventional vision into a globally recognized brand used in luxury spas around the world. We also dive into the launch of KNESKO’s new Gold Repair Collection and the future of beauty, ritual, and wellness.
If you’re interested in learning what it takes to build a differentiated brand, challenge traditional beauty norms, or create products that truly connect with consumers — check out the interview on my podcast. You can find it here or anywhere you listen to podcasts 🎧
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Is YouTube the most underrated paid channel for eCommerce brands right now? In this episode, I sit down with Brett Curry, founder of OMG Commerce, to break down exactly how seven- and eight-figure brands should be thinking about YouTube ads. Brett has been running YouTube campaigns for top D2C brands for years, and he reveals…
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Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to adapt to specific enterprise use cases and complex workflows. However, optimizing these skills is a slow process and faulty process, as they…
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Xiaomi’s MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code on key agentic coding benchmarks, especially on long-horizon, multi-step tasks (200+ steps) — at least, according to its own internal beta release and survey of 576 developers. It’s also bundling limited-time…
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Your conversion rate is lying to you. If you’re scaling a Shopify brand and treating CRO as a single number, this episode rebuilds how you diagnose what’s actually broken on your site. In this episode, Anthony Morgan, founder and CEO of Enavi, breaks down: Why the “intra-site funnel” beats conversion rate, with target baselines at…
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Most e-commerce brands pour everything into getting customers to checkout — and then hand them a generic, one-size-fits-all experience that quietly kills the sale. Avi Moskowitz, co-founder of PDQ, has processed millions of checkouts across top Shopify brands (including Jones Road Beauty), and his diagnosis is blunt: cart abandonment isn’t a technical problem. It’s an…
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Joy Sharma runs CTC’s PE7 program for mid to high 7-figure brands pushing toward 8 figures. His claim: if you’re stuck at a growth plateau and you’ve tried more creative, new ad structures, and different platforms, we can tell you what’s wrong without even looking at your account. The answer is offer-market fit. In this…
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Context windows are becoming a computational bottleneck. The longer an agent runs, the more tokens accumulate from retrieved documents, reasoning traces and conversation history, and the more memory and compute that growing context demands. Most existing solutions either degrade model accuracy, require the full context to load before compression begins, or produce memory savings that…
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