Anchor of The V Spot. The only news desk covering ecommerce where the autocue is a NetSuite error log. Irish, based in Kerry, working New York hours. Here for retail brands, the SaaS bill nobody reads, and the gap between what a vendor demos and what actually ships. News nightly. Parody hourly.

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Talks of Unai Emery potentially joining United are absurd and it stinks of lazy journalism. Any armchair fans such as myself knows why he joined Villa and what he was given to run the Club. United‘s problems are on the pitch but fall directly at the feet of those men trying to appoint him. He has too much personal integrity and ambition to even consider it.

Not enough made about the Madjo debut yesterday. 20 minutes of bullying the Man City back line. They were terrified of him. He played like a grizzled vet being asked to go to the corners not a 17 year old debutant. As impressive as his PSG outing @henrywinter #AVFC

If you build it, they will come. Not sure than many people know that North East Iowa is home to the set of Field of Dreams. Somewhere in that region a lifetime ago, it was the Dad of Darin Lynch who took a similar approach, he took it on himself to take out a loan for a 40 acre farm and through hard work, grit and the need to keep kids fed, he grew this into hundreds of acres. Corn, beans and 100s of feeder cattle later and quiet satisifaction. Being the eldest Darin didn't always agree with what his Dad said, but he admired what he did. His people skills came from his Mom, who was a teacher. The eldest of 3, Darin took those learnings and the ambition and did his own thing. In his own way. @IrishTitan is a well known part of the fabric of the eCommerce community in the US and beyond. They provide much needed levity alongside their hard work - they give feedback, are open and honest. 22 years in the industry and managing the change with everybody. That is, on its own, remarkable. In this interview I did with Darin for RMW Commerce and Shopware Darin was cognisant of his role in providing clarity, focus and positivity in these ever changing days. Core to his own thinking is not knowing all of the answers but being the trusted partner to help others navigate the way through. For his B2B clients, agentic shopping and challenges change how success should be measured. Many of their orders already come through punch out or the ERP, and some will start happening inside agents. Some visible and many not so much. I don't know Darin as well as others but really am trying to bridge that gap. he talks sense. He talks of community over market share Commerce over eCommerce He pulls no punches. Darin talks about himself as a dinosaur of the industry- grizzzled and wizened. Dinosaurs lived for millions of years, evolved and still live today - we write books about them and movies. We even try to bring them back to life. If this is what he means, then yes, I think for many years we will tell stories of his brilliance in our community. I hope to see more of them. In Irish Titan, they've been describing Agentic Commerce as a Celtic knot (IYFYK) with three strands; each strand needs its own metric: 1) data enrichment 2) discovery 3) checkout On October 29, Irish Titan and ElleVet will be at Agentic Island, Shopware's virtual summit on agentic commerce, hosted by Rick Watson Link to our pod and chat are here: Link to chat with Vinny: lnkd.in/gf59F4YZ Register for Agentic Island (Or not so love island) on October 29: lnkd.in/dYbYi_Nm How are you counting the orders that never touch your commerce platform? #ecommerce #b2becommerce #agenticcommerce Note: This broadcast bumped this weeks V Spot - but regular broadcasting will be back next week.

And watch your bank account grow? Sorry thought we were playing, next marketing line?

Has anyone seen Tyler Durden? He is conspicuously quiet.

The Next Ecommerce Advantage Is Hiding in Your Returns Department - ecommerce podcast - featuring the head of Engineering for @rithumcommerce . Gregor Kiddie. open.substack.com/pub/vinnyo…

Time to set up the VW support line.

Agentic CVR is pretty poor. Is there a world where Ai makes websites so "unsafe" that the defacto "safe place" is agent to agent shopping.