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The Composable Connection

Special Guests Justin Barth and Ben Coffin from Algolia

 In this episode, we talk with Justin Barth and Ben Coffin from Algolia.

Justin Barth
Justin Barth is a Senior Sales Leader at Algolia and has spent the better part of a decade in SaaS. Throughout his tenure as a sales leader and sales rep, Justin fostered the adoption of composable technology with businesses of all kinds. He's also developed a unique perspective around the modern software buying journey—aspiring to make it a more collaborative and transparent partnership. Justin comes from a background of traditional finance in both private wealth management and private equity. These experiences have shaped his ROI-first approach to innovation with his clients.

Ben Coffin
Ben Coffin serves as leader within MACH and composable alliances at Algolia - both with ISV and professional service organizations. With a focus on composable architecture, he keeps his finger on the pulse of omni-channel commerce. He is a passionate advocate for the power of composable technology to drive innovation and deliver real business value, and he works to help enterprise organizations take advantage of this cutting-edge approach.

Ben, his partner, and their adventure dog Cash (read Johnny, not money) nomad their way through the Mountain West, West Coast, and PNW but ultimately call Texas homebase.

Algolia

Algolia’s Search & Discovery APIs provide companies with a better way to build fast, relevant, and dynamic online experiences that delight and convert. Algolia's technology is used by 17,000+ companies across E-commerce, Media, SaaS, Healthcare, Financial Services, and more. Algolia powers 1.5T searches/year which is 4x more than Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and Yandex combined. They are also a founding member of the MACH Alliance with a platform purpose-built for composability and interoperability. Algolia has raised $330M+ from world-renowned investors including Accel, Salesforce Ventures, Twilio, Lone Pine Capital, SaaStr Fund and Y Combinator.

Elastic Path

Elastic Path powers mission-critical digital commerce for the world’s leading brands, such as Intuit, Pella, Deckers Brands, T-Mobile, and over 250 other leading enterprises. As relentless innovators, Elastic Path pioneered the API-Commerce space in 2011 and spearheaded Composable Commerce in 2020. Elastic Path provides industry-leading commerce APIs to help developers rapidly build, deploy, and continuously optimize unique commerce solutions.

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