Retailgentic · 2025-06-19 · 48 min
In this episode of Retailgenic, host Scot Wingo sits down with Roy Rubin, co-founder of Magento and General Partner at R-Squared Ventures, to explore the future of e-commerce in an AI-driven world. Roy shares why he believes the next billion-dollar DTC brand won’t even need a website, what agentic shopping means for the future of retail, and how platforms like Shopify and Amazon may get disrupted next. We also dive into: The founding story and evolution of Magento What went wrong (and right) during its acquisition by eBay and later Adobe His prediction that AI agents will replace traditional commerce UIs The good, bad, and ugly of agentic platforms like Perplexity
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