The Ostrich Report

eCommerce Marketplace Podcast that no one knew they wanted.

The Ostrich Report is a business podcast hosted by nerdinsearchof, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #1

  Kiss the ring. The ring's name is Rufus. - The Ostrich Report with Vinny & Hendrik

  Apr 23, 202651 minS2

  <p>Season 1, Episode 1 — Amazon isn't losing the agentic AI war. It's building the toll booths.</p><p>Malte Karstan (Marketplace Commentator & Analyst) joins Vinny O'Brien and co-host Hendrik Laubscher for a 50-minute conversation recorded across three continents — Singapore, Cape Town, and Ireland — that stopped being a forecast and became a post-mortem.</p><p>Malte called the Amazon SP-API paywall, the PayPal–Cymbio acquisition, and the UK agentic commerce shift months before the press releases dropped. We walk through what he said, what happened, and what it means now.</p><p>In this episode:</p>Amazon's SP-API paywall and why the April 30...

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  Episode #6

  Two Pints of Culture, Please – With Dave Morrissey

  Dec 11, 202530 minS2

  <p>The Struggle Bus with Dave Morrissey: Culture, Creativity & the Irish Peak Moment</p><p>In this episode of The Struggle Bus, Vinny sits down with the endlessly curious, relentlessly cultural, and occasionally feral-in-the-best-way Dave Morrissey — growth & culture consultant, ex-Meta, ex-TikTok, author of Grow Like Tech, and a man who can track the rise of Irish influence by reading festival lineups the way historians read ancient scripts.</p><p>Together, they dive into:</p><p>🇮🇪 Ireland’s Cultural Peak<br>From Fontaines D.C. to Guinness dominating the UK to spice bags taking over London, Dave breaks down why Irishness is having...

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  Episode #14

  If You Smell Like a Wookiee, Your Margins Better Work

  Nov 22, 202540 minS1

  <p></p><p>“If the first thing you do every morning is open Seller Central with a coffee… this one’s for you.” ☕📊</p><p>New episode of The Ostrich Report just dropped, and this time Hendrik and I brought in someone who actually runs the thing everyone has an opinion about but very few truly understand: marketplaces.</p><p>🎙 Guest: Jamie Roller<br>🧼 Brand: Dr. Squatch (yes, the Star Wars soap people with the ridiculous scents and surprisingly serious P&L discipline)</p><p>Jamie runs the marketplace business at Dr. Squatch, with a heavy focus on Amazon plus retail.com 1P. She’...

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  Episode #13

  What will $238 BN get you these days? The Ostrich Report

  Nov 15, 202533 minS1

  <p></p><p>$238BN Revenue a nostalgic, number-soaked sprint through Singles Day 2025 and a preview of our biggest episode yet. There are shopping events.</p><p> There are cultural moments. And then once a year China lights the ecommerce beacons, JD.com flexes its fulfilment biceps, and the rest of us sit there whispering:</p><p><br></p><p> “How… in the actual…?”</p><p><br></p><p>Welcome to our latest episode of The Ostrich Report, where Hendrik Laubscher and I dove beak-first into Singles Day 2025 the shopping festival that casually moved $238.3 billion in the time it takes most Western...

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  Episode #11

  LLMs Ate the Search Bar, Now What? - The Ostrich Report

  Nov 6, 202540 minS1

  <p>Max Sinclair blew our minds last week ( Hendrik Laubscher ) and I. We welcomed him onto the Ostrich Report to have what we thought would be a normal enough discussion about AI and its productivity gains for markketplace sellers. Wrong. Azoma occupy a unique space and have a long history in this space. 2 co founders with skills and experience, one from the Death Star (Amazon) who combined to build products for customers such as Mars - their customer list almost seems secondary to them - the product is critical. Isn't everyones? No. Nor is their product, for evereyone I mean...

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