The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast Founding, Scaling, and Selling a Supply Chain Software Business with John Urban of GT Nexus
Apr 14, 2021
32:25
On this week’s episode of The Future of Supply Chain, Santosh talks with John Urban, the now-retired co-founder and president of GT Nexus. John shares his experience founding, scaling, and selling his supply chain software business.
Highlights from their conversation include:
- John Urban’s background (1:32)
- The innovations of GT Nexus “The slowest overnight success” (3:29)
- Challenges with over interest in visibility and whether visibility is a means to an end (6:20)
- Consulting with young companies to take the supply chain to the next level (10:19)
- AI and digitization (15:02)
- Long-term adjustments for good sparked by a global pandemic (17:01)
- How John decided to lean in and work with the companies he’s with today (21:09)
- Product-oriented advice for startups in the supply chain (24:54)
- Selling software into an industry that is slow to adopt software (26:57)
- Digesting decades of experience (30:19)
GT Nexus is now Infor Nexus. Find out more at https://www.infor.com/about
About The Future of Supply Chain:
During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.