EP183 - Jason Del Rey Land of The Giants Podcast  We catch up with Jason Del Rey (@DelRey) Senior Correspondent, Commerce at Recode. Jason was last on episode 67.  We discuss some recent industry events and get update on this two big projects: Code Commerce September 9 and 10, in New York City. Land of The Giants: The Rise of Amazon Podcast. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 183 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, August 8th, 2019 Transcript Jason G: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 183 being recorded on Thursday August 8th 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual you with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners we are really excited this week to have back on the show Jason Delray Jason is senior correspondent Commerce at recode he's also produces the industry event code Commerce and now joins Jason retail geek and I in the pantheon of famous podcasters he was last on the Jason Scott show on episode way back on episode 67 which was January 17th back then he was senior editor so I guess congrats on the big promotion to senior correspondent. Jason D: [1:14] I don't know if that's a joke or not but I am I am happy to be back I was going to make a sport Sports Talk radio joke which is second time long time you know. Okay well we'll keep going thanks Rodriguez. Jason G: [1:34] It's good to have you back we don't get to make fun of the next enough so. Jason D: [1:38] Oh man it's going to be a long night. Scot: [1:41] So Jason G: [1:42] So is it true that your appearance on the Jason and Scott show sort of ignited your whole passion for podcasts. Jason D: [1:50] I mean I honestly did not know what podcasting was and then I came in you guys taught me the ropes and how many years later is this I don't know took me a couple years to like. Build up the courage and skill set but here I am so thank you. Scot: [2:09] Cool fucking to the club it's exciting to have you up in the in the in the podcaster realm. Jason D: [2:17] Only for a few more weeks but hopefully they'll be a long tail of listeners that all at all extend the Land of the Giants fan club into the rest of this year. Jason G: [2:31] Absolutely and we are going to need that into that but before we get in a Land of giants I want to talk about one of your other projects it's near and dear to Scott and eyes heart. I think it might have been three years ago now but you started a series of events code Commerce. Jason D: [2:52] Yeah that's right so we started we started with these one night one night, what we would consider a live journalism events and we started inside of shop talk I think year one of shop talk we did a sort of separate one-eyed event within shoptalk that required a separate ticket and it basically 3 hours you know an hour some ways food and drinks and networking and then usually three or four what would you like to drink or no BS interviews with. You know people like in past years you know we've had people like Jack Dorsey talking about Square Katrina wake pre-ipo talking about Stitch fix Mark Lori several years ago and overtime we built that. Into a standalone today event that's why we're going on Year 3000 New York City Standalone event, that happens every September and so we're only about a month out. Jason G: [4:03] Yeah and so and you have announced some of the the guess you're going to have for the Cher show. Jason D: [4:09] We have so we've announced maybe maybe about three-quarters of the lineup which I'm super excited about we have. Entrepreneur founder CEOs like Jennifer Hyman Rent the Runway Julie Wainwright we just took the real real Public Market Lori from Walmart Jeff Rader that Co CEO and co-founder Ari's which has agreed to sell for, make 1.3 billion dollars. I cookies in the CEO of Birkenstocks in the US and the founders of away digital native lug