From Toys "R" Us to the AI Frontier: The B2B Marketplace Revolution with Gil Bar-Lev
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Episode notes
Join Gil Bar-Lev, CEO of HomeRoots, for a masterclass on the evolution of digital commerce. A software engineer who helped bridge the gap between physical retail and the digital world during the legendary Toys "R" Us integration with Amazon, Gil has seen the "under the hood" mechanics of global trade for decades. In this episode, we move beyond the buzzwords to discuss how HomeRoots—a leading B2B marketplace and aggregator—is embedding AI into its core workflow to solve the "unsolved" problems of furniture and home decor logistics, and what the next decade of AI-native commerce looks like.
🎯 Insights You’ll Learn:
The Integration Playbook: Lessons from the front lines of the Toys "R" Us x Amazon partnership and how it shaped modern e-commerce.
AI in the Workflow: How HomeRoots uses AI for more than just chatbots—from predictive ...