The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast

Highlights from their conversation include:About Locomation AI (1:14)The Çetin story (4:02)Locomation’s competitive advantage (6:43)The different way Locomation is selling (9:34)Long haul trucking being split into relays (11:03)The necessity of underlying trucking OEMs (13:12)The ​​lack of a clear, federal level safety framework (15:58)Transporting 2x as more in the same amount of time (17:53)The arrival of level five autonomy (20:53)Electrification as the energy system of the future (22:39)Solving other supply chain issues (24:57)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 Rob and team are building at Backbone AI (1:02)Rob’s background and career journey (1:49)The massive ripple effects of spreadsheet limitations (3:56)Backbone’s practical solution: Databots (10:16)The transformation to digital sales happening in B2B (14:27)Backbone IRL: 2 case studies (16:18)Rob’s POV on utilizing the blockchain for supply chain (24:43)Rapid fire on business building (26:54)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 XPO (1:15)Matt’s background and career journey (2:45)XPO’s record-breaking year in 2021 (3:52)The Greenwich arrangement (5:20)Tech’s role in XPO’s business (7:57)XPO’s driver school (12:01)LTL’s 2022 Outlook (14:13)The North American Freight Brokerage outlook (17:36)Rapid-fire round: Ukrainian-Russian conflict, truck shortages, prized daily habit (19:43)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/.

Their conversation about the state of the container shipping industry covered:The state of the container business in 2020 (3:34)Integration ambition, building larger vessels and depressing sea rates (9:56)Carrier consolidation and global alliances (15:10)Carriers being smart with pricing and keeping space open (19:23)Technological adoption for liners (22:00)Average annual global container growth and proliferation of regional trade (30:44)What does the state of global trade mean for VCOs? (37:21)IHS Markit positions itself as the leading source of information and insight in critical areas that shape today's business landscape. Customers around the world rely on IHS Markit to address strategic and operational challenges. Find out more at ihsmarkit.com/aboutAbout 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:KINETIC and how Haytham got there (1:07)The problem KINETIC is trying to solve (4:39)What KINETIC’s device work (8:33)Selling as an IoT enabled business (12:14)Monetizing around insurance (15:08)Adapting as a CEO (18:47)Brokerage, the MGA model, & underwriting (20:30)Rapid-fire round: labor shortages across supply, favorite hardware product, the outlook for the New York City startup ecosystem (23:48)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:The Flexport story (2:00)Ben’s career journey (4:41)International global supply chains (9:54)Technology adoption in the forwarding market (13:28)The start of Flexport (18:40)Raising rounds’ effect on the scaling process (26:22)Multi-product line training and quota attainment (30:24)Expansion tactics, incentives, and considerations (35:13)Rapid-fire round: favorite book, important daily habit, uncommon belief (38:34)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:Chris’ entry into venture (1:27)Fontinalis’ start and current investments (4:58)Automotive’s impact on Fontinalis (8:56)Investing in hardware versus software (11:33)Autonomous vehicles (17:02)EVs and commercial applications (21:30)eCommerce enablement (23:11)The of role Spack (24:29)Advice for founders (27:42)Rapid fire round: COVID breaking open the heartland as a place to build a big business, most important daily habit, outlook for Michigan football (30:48)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:Trucksters and Luis’s background (1:19)Benefits of Trucksters (4:49)Defining relays (8:15)Why European shippers should implement relays (10:38)The relay vision and market today (12:46)Trucksters’ use of artificial intelligence (14:08)Overcoming the cultural barriers of expansion (16:05)Rapid-fire round: biggest scaling lesson, daily habits, 2022 goal (18:06)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 discussion include:Brad’s experience in the international logistics software world (1:13)International TMS execution workflows (5:14)Localization challenges to delivering a TMS at scale globally (10:13)Improving access to high-quality data in international freight (19:17)COVID’s impact on logistics teams (23:05)A founder’s approach to product pricing from seed to series A (25:31)Surprise at large organizations that still aren’t using software to manage workflows (30:55)Haven automates global logistics for commodity traders, food producers, and other large shippers every day. In a system notorious for inefficiency, their solutions-focused TMS streamlines workloads, saving over 50,000 hours of human time thus far. Their tools unlock shipment data that otherwise gets buried or lost in emails and phone calls, and turns that information into actionable insights that make work easier and more efficient. With Haven, tedium and frustration is traded for greater transparency and smoother collaboration.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 this conversation include:Overview of Jabu (1:14)David’s background (2:09)How operations work in today’s market (5:07)Economic mobility in Africa (8:47)Why David is building Jabu full-stack (9:57)Africa’s physical infrastructure (12:35)The Jabu experience (15:14)Benefits Jabu stakeholders acquire (18:01)Cash-based economy (20:27)Advice for acting on financial opportunities (23:29)Underappreciating broadening the African supply chain (24:46)The future of Jabu (26:16)Speed round: favorite habits, biggest company building challenge, fondest founder memory (27:31)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/.