S7 Bonus: The Algorithmic Rollup: Engineering a $970M Automated E-Commerce Engine with Jeremy Wood, Co-Founder of OpenStore

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Dec 22, 2022 · 21m

Jeremy Wood grew up in Portland, and has been heavily influenced by that upbringing. He enjoyed really strong maker communities, supporting local craft artists to thrive and build their business. He moved to the Bay Area for school, and was surrounding by optimism, tech focus, and sheer intelligence. I was under the impression that Portland was beautiful all year round, but Jeremy clued me in that 3 months out of the year, it's a drizzly, soggy mess.

As I mentioned, Jeremy was really into the craft builder community, which also led him to be interested in eCommerce. He observed Shopify grow…