30 years in freight Logistics. || Multiple companies built.
One exit to RedPrairie, now Blue Yonder.
And the most humble person I've ever met.
His name is Ajesh Kapoor.
And meeting him is exactly why I'm doing this.
For a long time, I've wanted to sit down with the people quietly building the real economy, the ones you don't see on stage, the ones on their second, third, or fifth attempt at something hard.
𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐈'𝐦 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭.
I'm launching '𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 & 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐥', a series where I sit down with the people building the real things, hardware, freight, energy, chips, batteries, robotics, the industries that quietly hold the physical world together.
Not the loudest founders. The ones actually building.
Some are on their first venture. Some are on their fifth. All of them are worth learning from, especially if you're young, ambitious, and wondering whether it's worth building something hard.
𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 01 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 Ajesh Kapoor, 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 SemiCab (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee & Georgia Tech College of Engineering graduate), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡.
What we got into:
1→ Why roughly 30% of trucks on US highways are running completely empty, and why it's a people problem, not a tech one
2→ The four-year freight recession that just quietly turned, and why almost nobody agrees on why
3→ Why waiting for autonomous trucks to fix this is a fantasy for at least another decade
4→ And, at the end, his advice to a young person choosing where to spend the next decade of their career
𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐨𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮.
𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐈𝐃. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐱. 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞.
https://lnkd.in/gpQgp7XN
Ep. 02 drops next week: Daniel J. Yun of Willog, on the invisible losses inside your cargo, and the insurance company he built on top of sensor data to prove it.
More founders. More builders. More of the unglamorous work quietly holding the physical world together.
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