Xavier Armand
@x_armand
CEO at Vaan: eCommerce design + tech | Webby Award Judge | Sold OrderBump (Shopify app) | Tweets about eCommerce, service biz, and the NBA. Father of 2.
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Something I really appreciate about you: you consistently talk about your work like doing a great job really matters to you.
In keeping with tradition, we have launched our yearly non-eCommerce project. Check out the new momofuku.com - a ground-up rebuild of the digital experience for the iconic restaurant group.
Unpopular take: a generation that loves story as much as Gen Z will find their way to wine culture at some point
Gen Z is swapping booze for lattes, mocktails and ‘wellness’ drinks, trend report finds trib.al/PQxmEzU
If this story is interesting to you. I highly recommend this pod about euro-russion corporate espionage. This might have been Jan Marselek open.spotify.com/show/2EU1S3kZd…
In 2016, I shared an elevator with the CFO of Wirecard in NY post a group meeting MS hosted with a room full of rabid short sellers post some high profile fraud allegations. We were short the stock - in size - because we thought they were probably a fraud and that they would at…
I'd listen to an agency operators pod. It'd be fun to do it as well. Share some real tactics, results, how we see the market, etc.
In 4th grade I won a regional label design concept for Heinz ketchup depicting a tomato plant with Heinz ketchup bottles growing instead of tomatoes. I won a hundred bucks. Years later I saw a very similar design on the label. Always wondered what it was worth...
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WAIT. There's a non-zero chance that I pitched Lebron a website for a high end jeweler friend of his over the phone and had no idea.
I should say, if you're having a DTC event and want a better spritz option for the bar. Holler at me.
Oh Gramercy Tavern re-ordered? Oh and the product arrived out east in time for the Sabah launch in Amagansett? Ohh and Inness set a meeting? Ohh wait, and 3 different restaurants have a dedicated Kingbird spritz weekend day? And the art gallery wants to gift 200 bottles?
Oh Gramercy Tavern re-ordered? Oh and the product arrived out east in time for the Sabah launch in Amagansett? Ohh and Inness set a meeting? Ohh wait, and 3 different restaurants have a dedicated Kingbird spritz weekend day? And the art gallery wants to gift 200 bottles?
Less diners more space flight
SpaceX Earth to Earth passenger flights are now pending approval 27,000km/h Hong Kong to Singapore: 22 min LA to Toronto: 24 min Bangkok to Dubai: 27 min Tokyo to Singapore: 28min London to Dubai: 29min London to New York: 29min New York to Paris: 30min Honolulu to Tokyo: 30…
The whole point of SaaS is that subscriptions fund ongoing improvement. Charging extra for new features breaks that trust. Want to sell new functionality separately? Go back to selling licensed software.
Maybe it's the scientist in me and thus my respect for chemicals and process. But I can't imagine selling a product that people ingest that I didn't know the manufacturing process for intimately.
Getting more efficient each run. 94 cases. 1128 bottles. Up >15% on last run. One of the best parts about being vertically integrated.
If the future is natural language I'm long on the platforms where I currently use the most natural language. Slack FTW
The challenge of our agency website is balancing a high-end design aesthetic, communicating our value proposition and showing our work, as fast as possible, and as clearly as possible. But by golly, I think we've got it.
It's exhilarating to know that when I press go on DTC for Kingbird, I have so many wildly smart DTC marketers to call on.
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Anyone have a great lawyer for corporate structuring? Need to redo ours to support investors without triggering SLA background checks or ownership hurdles. Appreciate any recs!