{"podcast":{"title":"Ecommerce Conversations","slug":"ecommerce-conversations-963613","podcast_index_feed_id":963613,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1995667.rss","website_url":"https://www.practicalecommerce.com/tag/podcasts","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/srxg8w1mhya5utiagezo6tpdn7gx?.jpg","author":"Practical Ecommerce","episode_count":596,"summary":"Ecommerce Conversations is the long-running weekly podcast from Practical Ecommerce, hosted by ecommerce entrepreneur Eric Bandholz. •• Listen in as Eric interviews in-the-trenches founders and executives who address the essentials of launching, growing, and sustaining an online business. Hear their successes, mistakes, and plans — addressing customer acquisition, web traffic, marketing tactics, on-site conversion, shipping, favorite tools, funding, obstacles, and much more. •• New episodes every Friday. Subscribe to the podcast here, and then read a condensed transcript at https://www.PracticalEcommerce.com/tag/podcasts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T02:21:11.178476+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613"},"episode":{"title":"Pinwheel CEO on Selling Kid-Safe Phones","slug":"pinwheel-ceo-on-selling-kid-safe-phones","published_at":"2026-06-12T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613/pinwheel-ceo-on-selling-kid-safe-phones","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1995667/episodes/19304677-pinwheel-ceo-on-selling-kid-safe-phones.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1995667/episodes/19304677-pinwheel-ceo-on-selling-kid-safe-phones.mp3","summary":"In 2019 Dane Witbeck had a problem familiar to parents: What were his kids doing on their smartphones? That problem became his motivation to launch Pinwheel, an Austin, Texas-based seller of Android phones with parental controls for apps, usage limits, monitoring, and more. Fast forward to 2026, and Pinwheel is thriving and profitable. In this episode, Dane shares his company's production process, marketing tactics, economic model, and more. For an edited and condensed transcript with embedd...","meta_description":"In 2019 Dane Witbeck had a problem familiar to parents: What were his kids doing on their smartphones? That problem became his motivation to launch Pinwhe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2201,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ecommerce-conversations-963613/episodes/pinwheel-ceo-on-selling-kid-safe-phones/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613/pinwheel-ceo-on-selling-kid-safe-phones.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}