{"podcast":{"title":"Add To Cart: Australia’s eCommerce Show","slug":"add-to-cart-australia-s-ecommerce-show-980880","podcast_index_feed_id":980880,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2521371.rss","website_url":"https://addtocart.com.au","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/s3sudp12pet3p9dp6qox42o36bt6?.jpg","author":"Nathan Bush","episode_count":662,"summary":"Add To Cart is Australia's leading ecommerce and retail podcast, hosted by Nathan Bush. Over 600 conversations with the founders, operators and digital leaders building Australian ecommerce. Episodes cover ecommerce strategy, DTC brand building, omnichannel retail, email and SMS marketing, performance marketing, fulfilment, and the tech stack decisions that shape how retail brands actually sell online. Free community, newsletter and resources at addtocart.com.au. Proudly supported by Shopify and Klaviyo.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T02:19:45.824857+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/add-to-cart-australia-s-ecommerce-show-980880"},"episode":{"title":"The Best Exit Is the One You Don't Need: Rob Ward on Selling Quad Lock for $500M | #652","slug":"the-best-exit-is-the-one-you-don-t-need-rob-ward-on-selling-quad-lock-for-500m-652","published_at":"2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/add-to-cart-australia-s-ecommerce-show-980880/the-best-exit-is-the-one-you-don-t-need-rob-ward-on-selling-quad-lock-for-500m-652","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/add-to-cart-australia-s-ecommerce-show-980880","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2521371/episodes/19614986-the-best-exit-is-the-one-you-don-t-need-rob-ward-on-selling-quad-lock-for-500m-652.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2521371/episodes/19614986-the-best-exit-is-the-one-you-don-t-need-rob-ward-on-selling-quad-lock-for-500m-652.mp3","summary":"Five years ago Rob Ward came on the show as co-founder and CEO of Quad Lock, the phone-mount brand he and Chris Peters bootstrapped from a Kickstarter campaign. Since then he's taken the big exit, Quad Lock sold to Thule for $500M at the end of 2024, and walked away entirely. He's spent the time since coaching basketball, picking up his kids, and building The DTC Playbook, a free interactive platform packing everything he learned scaling Quad Lock into frameworks any founder can use. This con...","meta_description":"Five years ago Rob Ward came on the show as co-founder and CEO of Quad Lock, the phone-mount brand he and Chris Peters bootstrapped from a Kickstarter cam…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3191,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/add-to-cart-australia-s-ecommerce-show-980880/episodes/the-best-exit-is-the-one-you-don-t-need-rob-ward-on-selling-quad-lock-for-500m-652/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/add-to-cart-australia-s-ecommerce-show-980880/the-best-exit-is-the-one-you-don-t-need-rob-ward-on-selling-quad-lock-for-500m-652.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}