Faire

🎉 Our very own Lauren Cooks Levitan has been recognized as the 2024 CFO of the Year award in the Emerging Company category for the San Francisco Business Times! We are so proud of Lauren for her outstanding leadership at Faire and her dedication to our customers. Check out the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gH8f3xY8

Providing a localized experience is crucial to connecting with our global customer base, and it’s just as important that this experience comes without any negative impact on performance. Following our migration to Next.js, Staff Engineer Jude Gao shares how we designed and built a custom localization approach to deliver fast, localized experiences without overhead. Check out the public repo as well: https://lnkd.in/gxJjzDeP

Look ma, we’re in Forbes 🤩 Since launching on Faire last year, we’ve built direct relationships with hundreds of small retailers in all 50 states. Faire's platform is perfect for connecting small producers like Cheese Brothers with mom-and-pop shops nationwide 🛍️🤝 We’re excited to be one of the first to use their new promoted listings and can’t wait for what the future holds on the platform! Read all about it: https://lnkd.in/gwcPkMd5

I feel lucky to be CPO at Faire, both because we get to serve small businesses who are bringing life and energy into their neighborhoods, and because I get to work with an amazing team of dedicated, thoughtful, growth mindset folks, who push all of us to be better every day. In this role, I'm excited that Products That Count has recognized me as a top Chief Product Officer in the 2024 CPO Awards.  I chatted with the Products that Count CPO Renee Niemi a few weeks ago -- sharing that here in case these tips help anyone else. We discussed things like how to simplify complex problems and find a clear vision, my approach to time management as a CPO and mom of 3, and -- most importantly -- building relationships with your customers to serve them better.

Generative AI offers an exciting new wave of new productivity opportunities. At Faire, we're exploring how these emerging technologies can help drive efficiency so that we can deliver more value to our users. Senior Staff Engineer Luke Bjerring shares how the Engineering team developed an automated code review pipeline using LLMs: https://lnkd.in/gf_arpB9

"I don’t remember where I got this advice but it really stuck with me – 'Be a business person first'. That always encouraged me to operate as a strategic thought partner with a financial toolkit to solve problems." Get to know our new Chief Financial Officer, Jason Lee in our latest Q&A: https://lnkd.in/gMCtZm9n

Running Faire would not be possible without data. Data powers hundreds of models and experiments that directly improve onboarding, search, and checkout workflows, as well as thousands of dashboards and data pipelines used for analytics. When it came time to move to a new data replication platform, we knew we needed something that could handle the scale of our operations. Senior Data Engineer Aditya Joshi shares our data replication journey, including what we learned from migrating replication infrastructure and how we’ve benefited from moving our sync infrastructure to Fivetran: https://lnkd.in/gJrD4Pd4

Building Blocks: Episode 1 feat. Gamescape Meet Tom 👋 owner of Gamescape on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. For 39 years, Gamescape has been a cornerstone of the local community, providing a diverse selection of games for purchase, a welcoming space to play, and engaging events for everyone to enjoy. Watch Building Blocks: Episode 1 feat. Gamescape to learn more about this locally owned tabletop game store.

This summer, I had the pleasure of visiting two of my favorite shops in San Francisco and learning more about the people who have helped build the blocks that shape the city. Tomorrow, catch the first episode of Building Blocks, Faire’s newest video series. For episode one, I spent the day with Tom, the owner of Gamescape. This nearly 40-year-old destination shop on Divisadero St. has jigsaw puzzles, chess sets, and almost every other game in between. Follow along on Instagram (https://lnkd.in/gtcB5xJr) or LinkedIn and tell me where I should go next. https://lnkd.in/gpe--gyA

Come see us at MAGIC Las Vegas in the West Hall, #50902 on August 19-21! Who else will be there? ⤵