The Story of Mark Stamps

All right, Nick, are you ready to do this?

I am ready.

It's so exciting to be back with you, Elizabeth, for another brand new shopless.

I'm very much excited to be surprised and delighted today by your guest.

You will be.

You will be.

I anticipate a fantastic conversation today filled with some really depth nerd type knowledge, especially on a certain retailer that might be, you know, based down in the South, because this person is not only experienced in the Walmarts and the Sam's Clubs and the And the retail media in general, but also a fixture on our circuit in the industry, both as a speaker and as an attendee, was a friend of ours, personally, in the early days of the Walmart API.

That first wave, we were in the second wave, and there was some commiseration over that and beers in a certain conference.

And I think you might understand or might be knowing who I'm talking about.

ah yes it could be the very the singular mark stamps

the the one and only

the one and only mark hello mr mark sir all right i'm in

you are nick elizabeth thank you for having me in today

yeah do you remember that time though like when we met like for the first time all three of us we were literally standing there at cleveland research with beers going what is up this api yes

uh i did not know uh who you guys were and then we as we started to chat we we all jumped on to that what is going on

i just couldn't help myself it was like i was so frustrated because we didn't do the first wave and obviously sky did but like tenuity we had to wait because you know just from a timing perspective and i was like what is even happening this three months has turned into nine which has turned into 12.

That's right.

I would love to understand, maybe in a separate episode, Elizabeth, me asking you, what was going on in the background with Intinuity while you guys waited? Because we've got our own stories.

I like that Mark's already jumping

ahead to a second episode.

I mean,

Mark, like a little bit of, you know, come on.

I'm going to not mess up enough today that you'll, you'll invite me back.

Let's do that because not only is there a story on hustling, but I got in trouble for something.

And I think, I think I can talk about it publicly now.