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JECO and the business of a little backyard theatre
A fountain dressed as an old water pump. Wicker made from resin. JECO sells familiar outdoor scenes - and the ordering, shipping and upkeep behind them tell the more interesting story.
Minea Turns the Ad Feed Into a Product Lab
Minea packages the noisy world of social ads, Shopify stores and product trends into one research desk. The useful part is speed; the dangerous part is mistaking a signal for a sure thing.
Ofir Bokobza Built a Career Before Anyone Could Print Him a Payslip
At 15, his salary went to his mother because he had no bank account. At 28, the software company he helped build was acquired by Fiverr. The years between explain Ofir Bokobza better than any tidy résumé could.
Rithum Bought the Pipes. Now It Wants to Run the Whole Store.
Rithum spent years assembling the unglamorous machinery behind online shopping. Its next act is turning that plumbing into an AI-era control room for brands, retailers and suppliers.
Gina Group
Gina Group is a New York-based fashion, lifestyle and branding company that designs, licenses, manufactures and distributes a broad range of consumer products - hosiery, footwear, handbags, accessories, cold-weather gear, health and wellness items, pet products and gourmet foods. Founded in 1985 as Gina Hosiery, it has grown into a multi-division wholesale house serving retailers from dollar stores to department stores, managing licensed brands such as Rampage and Bearpaw alongside an extensive private-label business.
Shopify
Shopify is a Canadian commerce company that provides a unified software platform for businesses to start, run, and grow retail operations across online stores, physical locations, social channels, and marketplaces. Launched in 2006 by snowboard-shop founders frustrated with existing store software, it now powers millions of merchants in more than 175 countries and handled roughly $378 billion in gross merchandise volume in 2025. Beyond the storefront builder, Shopify sells payments, capital, shipping, point-of-sale hardware, and a growing set of AI tools, positioning itself as the commerce infrastructure behind a large share of independent and enterprise brands.
Andrew Kassian
Andrew Kassian is the CEO of Scalify, an AI-powered advertising platform that helps e-commerce brands plan, launch, optimize, and scale paid campaigns across Meta and TikTok from a single dashboard. Scalify's pitch is blunt: you should not need to become a media buyer to run profitable ads. Its tooling generates ad creative from product images, builds lookalike and interest audiences automatically, applies rule-based optimization that pauses losers and scales winners around the clock, and consolidates cross-platform performance data so founders can make spending decisions without exporting spreadsheets. Based in Miami with company operations tied to London, Kassian sits at the intersection of small e-commerce operators and the increasingly automated, AI-driven future of digital advertising.
Scalify
Scalify is an AI-powered ad management and automation platform that lets businesses launch, analyze, optimize, and scale Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Google ads from a single dashboard. Built originally as a Shopify app for e-commerce and dropshipping store owners, it automates the grunt work of media buying - building hundreds of custom and lookalike audiences in seconds, generating ad creatives and copy with AI, running 24/7 rule-based optimization, and shifting budget toward winning ads - so smaller brands can advertise like they have an in-house agency without the agency price tag.
GearLaunch
GearLaunch is a print-on-demand commerce platform that lets entrepreneurs design, sell, and ship custom products without holding inventory or paying upfront. Sellers handle the creative and marketing; GearLaunch handles production, printing, fulfillment, payment processing, and worldwide shipping across a catalog of thousands of customizable items.
RateS
RateS was a Singapore-born, Indonesia-focused social commerce platform that let anyone - housewives, students, small shop owners - start an online business with no inventory and no upfront capital. The app sourced products directly from suppliers and handled warehousing, logistics, payments and financing, while its network of micro-entrepreneurs handled sales through their social networks. Spun out of the foreign-exchange startup RateX, RateS grew to more than 500,000 resellers across Indonesia's tier-2 and tier-3 cities before being acquired by e-commerce enabler SIRCLO in 2023.
Sherwin Xia
Sherwin Xia is the co-founder and CEO of Trendsi, a San Francisco-based e-commerce supply chain infrastructure company that raised $30M total including a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Before Trendsi, he was one of the first employees at Lime and an analyst at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). A Stanford postgraduate, Xia co-founded Trendsi in late 2020 after spotting an opportunity to bring Asian S2B2C supply chain models to Western markets, targeting a demographic of small boutique sellers and stay-at-home moms building online fashion businesses. Trendsi's platform automates inventory forecasting, dropshipping, and custom branding for thousands of independent sellers.
Ezra Firestone
Ezra Firestone is a self-taught ecommerce entrepreneur who dropped out of high school, played poker in NYC underground clubs, and went on to build and sell multiple 7-, 8-, and 9-figure brands - most notably BOOM by Cindy Joseph, which crossed $200 million in cumulative revenue. He runs Smart Marketer (his education platform), Zipify Apps (serving 18,000+ Shopify brands with $600M+ in facilitated upsell revenue), and has acquired and turned around brands like oVertone Haircare. His philosophy - 'Serve the World Unselfishly and Profit' - is backed by results, and his operating principles around content-first marketing, brand mission, and sustainable growth have influenced an entire generation of ecommerce operators.
Neville Medhora
Neville Medhora is a self-made copywriter, course creator, and entrepreneur who never held a traditional job. He built a drop-shipping business at 17, helped grow AppSumo to 750,000 customers through email, and turned a single copywriting course into a $1M/year business with zero employees. His platform CopywritingCourse.com (originally 'Kopywriting Kourse') has taught 20,000+ students how to write persuasive copy. He also runs SwipeFile.com and publishes the SWIPES newsletter weekly.