
Product Recommendations and Personalization Before the First Click with Sidd Motwani of Malachyte
Sidd Motwani, co-founder and CEO of Malachyte, on real-time personalization that starts before the first click. Malachyte builds a user vector, a numerical representation of each shopper's intent and preference, with no third-party cookies, no purchase history, and no sign-in required. Sidd and his co-founder built the user vector platform at Spotify, where it powers most of the application across music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
In this conversation:
What a user vector is and why it works cold, with no data about the shopper
Personalizing from the referrer, device, time of day, and location…
The skinny
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