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Shopify isn’t enough

…and deep down, you already know that.

There’s a moment that creeps in somewhere between “should I try another email pop-up plugin?” and “why don’t my reports ever answer real questions?” It’s a quiet realization. The platform that made it beautifully easy to launch your store might not be built to help you scale your marketing or understand your customers beyond last Tuesday’s sale.

Shopify does many things well. It’s clean, manageable, and doesn’t ask you to learn code or bribe a developer friend. It’s perfect for what it is: a commerce platform. Not a data platform. Not a campaign

The evolution of Omni-Man

From debugging eVars to preaching composable gospel -> Adam Greco's 25-year journey through martech's identity crisis

I finally sat down with Adam Greco for what turned into one of those conversations that explains how we got to this beautiful disaster we call modern martech.

Adam earned the nickname "Omni-Man" back when he was basically Adobe Analytics incarnate, the guy who could fix your broken implementations and somehow make eVars seem less like a cruel joke played on marketers by bored engineers. For years, he was the poster child for mastering one platform completely.

Which makes his current crusade for composable CDPs either beautifully ironic or perfectly logical, depending on whether you've had your coffee yet.

His

The trophy analyst, the hippo CMO, and the myth of “just one more tool”

But Steen tells it like it is... It’s not the tool. It’s us.

Some conversations catch you off guard in the best possible way. This one with Steen did exactly that.

We were meant to talk about analytics, why it still doesn’t deliver on its promise, despite all the new tools and fancy dashboards. And we did. But what surprised me was how personal it got. Not emotional, but honest in a way that made me uncomfortable in a good way. The kind of uncomfortable that makes you realize how often we’re just going through the motions, pretending things are working because admitting otherwise might mean admitting we don’t really

How to avoid data chaos, one sunny walk at a time

Stefania Olofsdottir, CEO of Avo, shares her mission to stop bad data at the source in a walk and talk that proves you don’t need a desk to get deep about analytics.

Data chaos doesn’t wait for a boardroom. So we took this Couch Confidentials special episode outside, wandering the streets of Amsterdam with Stefania Olofsdottir during Measurecamp. We talk about the origins of Avo, trusting teams with their own datasets, and how her journey from Iceland to analytics has always centered around making data meaningful before it breaks things downstream.

☀️ Recorded on a sunny stroll.

📍 Measurecamp Amsterdam.

🧠 Powered by Avo’s mission to fix bad data before it breaks your stack.

📄 Download Avo’s whitepaper: https://www.avo.app/resources/data-mesh-for-event-based-data

👥 Connect with us:

Stefania: https://www.linkedin.com/in/

Measurecamp Amsterdam: The (un)conference that brought it all back

A day of reconnection, community, and data therapy, with socks, sunshine, and spontaneous podcasting.

After 20+ years in digital analytics and Martech, I thought I’d seen it all. But my first Measurecamp Amsterdam was a reminder of everything that still excites me about this field.

No fixed agenda. No stages or egos. Just brilliant people posting their ideas on a board and running with them. From analytics therapy to building your own tracking stack, to hard truths about data quality. It was a refreshing mix of energy and honesty.

And then there were the people. Old friends, new voices, and moments that will stay with me for a long time. I even recorded

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