# Why Brian Berger wishes he'd gone wholesale from day one

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Podcast: [Brilliant Commerce](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brilliant-commerce-7086880)
Published: 2026-06-03T13:16:51+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/front-lines-studios85/episodes/Why-Brian-Berger-wishes-hed-gone-wholesale-from-day-one-e3k9dj5
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## Resource

Brian Berger came into consumer from a consumer internet background, and that combination is exactly why Mack Weldon was built the way it was: a brand with a direct customer relationship at its core, a data-informed operation, and a product formula applied to a category most brands had written off as commoditized. Nearly 15 years in, he knows where that approach held up and where it cost them. Topics discussed: Applying a performance-fabric product formula to commoditized men's basics Why multichannel wholesale would have built profitable revenue faster than DTC Managing the tension between growth investment and a self-sustaining business Why brand marketing and growth marketing require fundamentally different skill sets What actually drives repurchase when CRM and email cadence hit their ceiling Building a data foundation that teams can interrogate and act on rather than just report from Where AI-generated creative works now for physical product brands and where it still falls short What Mack Weldon is seeing from agent-based search traffic and how they're thinking about it Why persona-based dynamic landing pages are an emerging personalization approach worth watching

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