Grant Goodale, CTO of Convoy, details how their software has streamlined the booking and shipping process for truckers and provides some tips for early-stage start-ups on how to extend your runway.
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Nov 20
How to Maximize ROI on AI in 2026
<p>The promise of agentic AI has been massive, autonomous systems that act, reason, and make business decisions, but most enterprises are still struggling to see results.</p><p>In this episode, host Chris Brandt sits down with Sumeet Arora, Chief Product Officer at Teradata, to u ... Show More
59m 51s
Nov 6
90% of AI Demos Fail. Here’s How to Build One that Won’t
<p>If you’ve ever shipped an AI feature that looked great in testing — only to watch it behave unpredictably in production — you’re not alone.</p><p>In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt talks with Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at incident.io, about the critica ... Show More
59m 22s
Oct 31
The Future of Procurement: Real-Time Supply Chain Intelligence
<p>Every product a company ships depends on thousands of tiny decisions happening deep inside the supply chain. But most organizations are still making those decisions using stale spreadsheets, fragmented systems, and guesswork.</p><p>In this episode, we explore how AI-driven pro ... Show More
53m 20s
Oct 2021
What Do Transit Systems Look Like After Covid?
<p>Ride sharing has swept transportation systems over the last decade -- bringing convenience, but also congestion, inequities, and political fights.</p><p>Now a new category of transportation networking is emerging: <a href="https://ridewithvia.com/resources/articles/transittech ... Show More
58m 55s
Sep 2022
Reinventing the Wheel: Gatik’s Apeksha Kumavat Accelerates Autonomous Delivery - Ep. 178
As consumers expect faster, cheaper deliveries, companies are turning to AI to rethink how they move goods. Foremost among these new systems are “hub-and-spoke,” or middle-mile, operations, where companies place distribution centers closer to retail operations for quicker access ... Show More
32m 30s
May 2022
This Is What It Takes to Win in the World of Freight Brokerage
The world of trucking is extraordinarily complex. There are an untold number of players that need to ship goods around the country. And there are tens of thousands of carriers, large and small, who own the trucks that move the goods. Standing in the middle are freight brokerages, ... Show More
57m 44s
Oct 2019
E995: The Next Unicorns: NEXT Trucking CEO & Co-founder Lidia Yan brings trucking into the digital age with her two-sided marketplace, shares insights on finding & focusing on an untapped market, owning & innovating drayage, navigating the trucking industry as a woman & scaling the right team for su
0:55 Jason intros Lidia Yan<br />
5:03 Lidia describes getting into the trucking industry and why NEXT focuses on "drayage"<br />
13:29 How NEXT has revolutionized drayage shipping<br />
18:22 What is a typical shipping broker's take rate<br />
20:54 How does pricing work in ... Show More
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