
A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Founder of Deliverr & Augment
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Nov 6, 2025 Harish Abbott, a serial founder and logistics innovator, shares his journey from struggling with Deliverr to achieving $100M in ARR and a $2B acquisition by Shopify. He reveals how two crucial changes—a dynamic delivery badge and flat pricing—revolutionized their growth. Now leading Augment, an AI logistics startup, Harish emphasizes the importance of product-price-market fit and understanding both end users and economic buyers. His insights on automating workflows and shadowing operators reveal how to build solutions that resonate with real needs.
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Inventory Placement Is The Core
- Deliver focused on inventory placement and software orchestration while outsourcing warehouses and last-mile.
- Pooling thousands of merchants' inventory enables forward deployment comparable to Amazon at lower merchant scale.
Early Struggle With Merchant Adoption
- Harish spent the first nine months getting only about 10 merchants to use Deliver despite the product working.
- He learned directly from merchant interviews that pricing and visible promises were blocking adoption.
Simplify Pricing To Unlock Adoption
- Change pricing to simplify customer decision-making by making fulfillment a single flat price per SKU.
- Absorb distribution risk yourself so merchants get predictable costs and can model unit economics.
