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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

  continue reading

161 episodes

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Manage episode 502550243 series 2814928
Content provided by The Retail Podcast. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by The Retail Podcast or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

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

  continue reading

161 episodes

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