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Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)

Dec 19, 2019

01:38:57

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Buying Little Co

04:51

Wea Speed Mattered

04:40

Investing in Supply and Demand

02:54

Introduction

2min

The Late Stage Funding Landscape

3min

Convoy - A New Theme and Technology

2min

Convoiy - A Digital Freight Network

2min

You Grew Up in Seattle, Birthplace of Amazon

4min

What Prompted You to Join a Seattle Start Up?

2min

The Power of Networking and Information in the Start Up World

3min

How Did You Get Your First Job at Micrasop?

4min

Convoys

4min

10.

What's the Story Behind Amazon's Ceo Factory?

3min

11.

Building a Team Around a Business Idea

5min

12.

How to Get Seed Funding for Convys

2min

13.

Getting the Best Engineers Around the Table

2min

14.

I've Heard You Talk About the Table

3min

15.

I Didn't Work to My Clip and Starvoks Gift Cards

4min

16.

How Did You Get the Initial Liquidity to Bootstrap Truckers?

2min

17.

Is It Hard to Get a Broker's License?

2min

18.

Truck Drivers Don't Always Trust Brokers

2min

19.

The Secret Sauce for Building the Fly Wheel

3min

20.

We're Thinking Now About Truck Load Freight, Right?

5min

21.

Wea Speed Mattered

5min

22.

How Do You Grow and Scale Fast?

3min

23.

Then, You Know, You Can't Just Go Local, but You Can Develop That Network Effect, Right?

2min

24.

We're a Local Freight Company, and We're Only a New Local, So We Started Off in Texas

6min

25.

Investing in Supply and Demand

3min

26.

What if Big Co Didn't Buy Little Co?

4min

27.

The Future of Truck Tendering

4min

28.

How Much Is Your Convy Stock Worth?

3min

29.

How to Drive Growth in a Market Place

2min

30.

Buying Little Co

5min

31.

Do You Want to Do Carvouts?

2min

Coming to you live from the University of Washington, Ben and David are joined by hundreds of awesome Seattle listeners (and a few non-Seattle listeners!) to cover the meteoric rise of trucking industry disruptor and hometown hero Convoy. How did Dan and Convoy go from nervously conducting market research at truck stops on I-5 to one of the largest logistics companies and fastest-growing startups in the world in just four short years, raising over $650m (not a typo) along the way? Tune in to find out!

Special thank you to the Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and to Pioneer Square Labs for generously sponsoring the show venue.

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