Dirk Hoerig

Is the commerce platform also #TheNaysayer in your company? Check out @arnettwill in our latest @commercetools spot.

Congrats to @benioff and @salesforce for adopting headless. The last 13 years felt quite lonely.

We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing. 86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment! nytimes.com/interactive/20…

We took an updated look at the evidence on AI adoption. Key finding: AI adoption has continued to grow faster than almost any other technology in history — but the drivers of this have started to change. 🧵

Over decades Apple was the most secretive company out there. Today you learn a week ahead about new product releases and design improvements already through 3rd party vendors:

What’s the new iPhone 17 design? Just check out the sites of the case providers:

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2024 Black Friday is in the books and commercetools customers had another amazing shopping event. Some highlights: - Total Black Friday sales skyrocketed to $623M (GMV) - 32% increase - 4,3M orders - 9,2B requests with an average response time of 0.2s This literally is Commerce at the speed of Wow, helping our customers to run an amazing shopping week(end) while we take care of performance and stability. Thanks to our amazing team that makes this happen. This is me just checking our grafana dashboards over the long weekend 🖥️

@jlhortelano @Startup_VLC @nacho_mas @mjosecatala @rut_merino @AjuntamentVLC @generalitat @GVAhisenda @dipvalencia @bancosantander @SanStartups_es @jradsuara @VLCIEcosystem @VLCInnovation @EDEMempresarios 🌍 Discover how to fuel startup growth and technological advancement at the #VDS2024 Main Stage 🔛 Featuring @dirkhoerig (@commercetools), Marili't Hooft-Bolle (Trengo), and Monica Wheat (@Techstars) Moderated by Myrthe Van der Erve 👤

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Birdie on 18. Seems I can only golf when people are watching. @bmwgolfsport @BMWOpen24

At least for now in 2024 $AMZN is proving its critics wrong. Stock is at an all time high above Covid levels. AI is putting additional pressure on the business, but Amazon has shown over the decades how quickly it can adapt…

In 2023 the ‘peak amazon’ prophets seemed to finally got proven right. Especially as a new category of factory-to-consumer players entered the stage. And to be fair, it’s too early to call out a winner.

Peak Amazon? In 2018/19 many assumed that $AMZN could have reached its peak. We now know things look different today:

We have about 8,000 VC Fonds. If a private tech company is not able to further raise any money fromn professional investors it's an interesting idea to have the average tax payer to sponsor a startup...

There’s a new industrial revolution happening ⚡ Explore the industries seeing tech’s biggest impact, as #theCUBE analysts report this week from #ctElevate 📺 Firsthand insights, available on-demand April 18! theCUBE.net @commercetools

Our CEO @dirkhoerig and the Basketball Hall of Famer, retired NBA star and philanthropist @swish41 discussed: ➡️Competing against the best ➡️ Playing against expectations ➡️ The importance of innovation ➡️ How to lead with a clear vision #ctElevate24 #leadership

What’s commerce growth look like now that the market’s normalized after COVID? ↗️ #theCUBE analysts report on-site from #ctElevate thecube.net/events/commerc… “Especially in 2023 with interest rates going up with inflation, macro effects happening, we saw challenges. But what we are now realizing is growth is suddenly picking up,” explains Dirk Hoerig, founder and chief executive officer of commercetools. “What that means is that in total retail we’re expecting about 4% growth. But when we look on the commerce part of it on average, region by region, category by category. But on average over the next few years, we expect a growth rate if 8% across the industry,” he furthers. @dirkhoerig @commercetools

In the absence of an alternative…:) Thank you @commercetools