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The Home Is Retail’s New Storefront | Kaave Pour (SPACE10/IKEA)
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Kaave Pour (ex‑SPACE10/IKEA) breaks down the home as retail’s #1 touchpoint: from layered home systems to utilities as technology (heat pumps, batteries, air/water quality), the Matter standard, robots, renting vs. owning, and how energy economics reshapes behaviour.
You’ll learn: The home stack:structure → furnishings → utilities → interfaces/data → services Why utilities are the next big tech platform for healthier, cheaper living How layers are blurring (IKEA energy, Airbnb building homes, etc.) Kitchen as battleground: in‑home touchpoints for grocery & CPG Europe lens: cost‑first renewables, off‑grid myths, renting, community Leadership: mission‑led recruiting; winding down SPACE10 without losing momentum CTA: If you lead retail, ecommerce or CX,
subscribe and share with your ops & product teams.
Chapters below ↓
00:00 Intro & why Kaave returns
01:08 Inside IKEA/SPACE10: building an innovation culture
02:35 Pilots, new ventures & ‘home’ as the red thread
03:18 Ending SPACE10 & what’s next
05:16 Kaave’s 3 filters: impact, people, money
08:14 Why he’s fixated on the home
08:37 Hiring for mission: how to attract top talent
12:08 Closing SPACE10: lessons from the transition
14:40 The home’s expanding role in work, fulfilment & wellbeing
16:40 The home stack: structure → utilities → services → data
18:13 Layers blur: Airbnb, IKEA Energy & new players
19:49 The home becomes retail’s #1 touchpoint
24:29 Utilities as the next big tech (heat, water, air)
27:29 Energy shift: costs beat ideology
29:05 Unbundling food: cloud kitchens vs groceries
31:42 The next 5 years: renting, community, tech adoption
33:20 Matter, spatial/wearable computing & home robots
37:24 UBI: promise, risks & policy
40:30 Resilient jobs in utilities
41:16 Thanks & close
161 episodes
Manage episode 502550243 series 2814928
Kaave Pour (ex‑SPACE10/IKEA) breaks down the home as retail’s #1 touchpoint: from layered home systems to utilities as technology (heat pumps, batteries, air/water quality), the Matter standard, robots, renting vs. owning, and how energy economics reshapes behaviour.
You’ll learn: The home stack:structure → furnishings → utilities → interfaces/data → services Why utilities are the next big tech platform for healthier, cheaper living How layers are blurring (IKEA energy, Airbnb building homes, etc.) Kitchen as battleground: in‑home touchpoints for grocery & CPG Europe lens: cost‑first renewables, off‑grid myths, renting, community Leadership: mission‑led recruiting; winding down SPACE10 without losing momentum CTA: If you lead retail, ecommerce or CX,
subscribe and share with your ops & product teams.
Chapters below ↓
00:00 Intro & why Kaave returns
01:08 Inside IKEA/SPACE10: building an innovation culture
02:35 Pilots, new ventures & ‘home’ as the red thread
03:18 Ending SPACE10 & what’s next
05:16 Kaave’s 3 filters: impact, people, money
08:14 Why he’s fixated on the home
08:37 Hiring for mission: how to attract top talent
12:08 Closing SPACE10: lessons from the transition
14:40 The home’s expanding role in work, fulfilment & wellbeing
16:40 The home stack: structure → utilities → services → data
18:13 Layers blur: Airbnb, IKEA Energy & new players
19:49 The home becomes retail’s #1 touchpoint
24:29 Utilities as the next big tech (heat, water, air)
27:29 Energy shift: costs beat ideology
29:05 Unbundling food: cloud kitchens vs groceries
31:42 The next 5 years: renting, community, tech adoption
33:20 Matter, spatial/wearable computing & home robots
37:24 UBI: promise, risks & policy
40:30 Resilient jobs in utilities
41:16 Thanks & close
161 episodes
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