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Episode

7

36 mins

#7 Building and Running Studio Operations with Matthew Miller

#7 Building and Running Studio Operations with Matthew Miller

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Hosted by

Rich Summers

CEO Lets Flo

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Matthew Miller

| Guest

Previous Sr. Operations Manager at Saks

About this episode

What does it take to run studio operations at the scale of luxury American retail? Matthew Miller has done the full journey, from digital technician unpacking boxes on his first day, to leading the multi-million dollar studio build-out at Saks Fifth Avenue, to stepping across into the wider business. In this episode, he sits down with Rich for a candid look at what high-volume content production really demands, and where it tends to break down. They cover the Friday-to-Monday studio relocation that kept production running without a single day of disruption, why the failures almost always happen in the handoffs rather than on set, what it actually looks like when the wider business can see into the studio, and why sample management teams are the most underrated people in the whole operation. Matthew also shares his take on where AI fits in for enterprise retail right now, and where studios are better off getting ahead of it quietly before the permission arrives. Honest and practical, from someone who has sat on both sides of the visibility gap.

Meet the speakers

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Rich Summers

CEO Lets Flo

· Host

Hosts and steers the narrative arc. His track runs from introducing why Matthew's full-journey perspective is rare, through guiding the conversation across the three big beats: designing a studio from scratch, where time disappears at high volume, and how the wider business sees the studio. He keeps pulling Matthew's stories back to the recurring themes of the series, compounding inefficiencies and the visibility gap, before wrapping with the pointer to letsflo.co/the-collective.

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Matthew Miller

Previous Sr. Operations Manager at Saks

· Guest

Carries the storytelling. His track is the operator's journey: digital technician to studio leader to business operations. He tells the anchor story of the 60,000 square foot Manhattan buildout, gets candid on where time really went at HBC and Saks scale, then flips perspective to describe how studios look from the business side, and closes on AI in operations and how being a painter shapes his thinking as an operator.

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