The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast

Highlights from their conversation include:What’s being built at Manna (1:10)The Bobby Healy story (1:48)What drones are best suited for (4:23)How Bobby chose the enabler route (11:00)Safety at Manna (14:27)Varying designs for drones (19:38)Deterrents of drone expansion (25:12)The economics of drone delivery (29:33)Advice for rising founders (32:48)Bobby's favorite summer activity (34:01)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Highlights from their conversation include:About UPS Capital (1:11)The Jeff Iannone story (1:39)What UPS offers (2:18)Managing risk exposure (3:14)Thinking about claims management (4:48)When considering insurance partnerships (7:15)How underwriting is improving (9:05)Making a plan amongst shortages (10:52)Rethinking supplier relationships (14:35)Untapped supply chain problem areas (17:07)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/

Highlights from their conversation include:About Haul (1:22)The Tim Henry story (1:58)The driver shortage issue (7:00)A secular solution (12:48)Getting screened for Haul (15:26)The Haul customer experience (18:23)California Assembly Bill 5 Impact (21:40)Most important lesson from selling to fleets (26:43)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Highlights from their conversation include:What Mark’s building in Africa (1:15)Mark’s background and career journey (2:17)The freight opportunity in Africa (3:34)Who Amitruck serves best (5:59)How Amitruck helps solve the issue (7:03)Driver recruitment and relations (8:55)Amitruck’s technology enablement (10:50)Working on the underlying fundamentals (13:24)Hardest learned lesson (15:33)How to educate yourself (16:25)Favorite weekend pastime (17:49)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Highlights from their conversation include:Carolyn Mooney’s path from missiles to food delivery to nextmv (1:08)Using Dash to experiment and simulate and Hop to solve optimization (4:10)Customer benefit use cases (12:42)Practically implementing the nextmv API (14:53)Simulating thousands of decision paths and selecting the most optimal one (16:43)Could this be used to help with vaccine distribution? (18:50)Nextmv’s tools allow users to encode, test, and manage decisions in the cloud, so they can scale their business with predictable performance and lower cost. Find out more at nextmv.io/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.

Highlights from their conversation include:About Wyebot (1:07)The Roger Sands’ story (2:20)Current connectivity status quo (3:46)The wireless intelligence platform (8:08)Internet connectivity today (11:31)How ROI decisions are thought through (13:27)Necessary organizational adjustments (17:17)Selling and servicing WiFi capability (19:53)Unsolved wireless capability issues (21:21)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Highlights from their conversation include:About Truck Labs (1:18)The Daniel Burrows story (2:50)The one-on-one of “truck wings” (4:34)A new software product for fleets (11:01)Founder advice for selling technology to fleets (13:33)Daniel’s opinion on the debate (21:46)New business opportunities (25:31)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups.Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Highlights from their conversation include:About Zebox (1:14)The Charley Dehoney story (4:10)Why and how you should join Zebox (8:09)Common mistakes made when engaging with enterprises (12:48)How supply chain visibility has changed in the last year (15:23)Looking for supply chain visibility solutions (18:44)The Supply Chain Reform Act of 2022 (22:13)The reality of nearshoring (30:55)Request for a startup (33:40)A little-known fact about Charley Dehoney (34:30)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Highlights from their conversation include:Introduction to Anchor Harvey and what sets it apart (1:02)Having a data-driven approach to forging (4:32)Commonly forged products (6:39)Monitoring the steps in the process (10:27)Developing a process control system (11:51)Is there an unraveling of globalization or just a course correction for supply chains? (15:48)Staying relevant and offering value to customers (20:11)Streamlining workflows (22:05)Anchor Harvey is a data-driven aluminum forging company with a century-long legacy in precision manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain management. They’ve modernized the age-old aluminum forging process by introducing sophisticated technology to monitor and control every step of the operation, ensuring part consistency from 1 to over 1,000,000. Find out more about Anchor Harvey at anchorharvey.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.