- CEO of "Truck Stop"
- First freight matching service on the internet
- Stimulated by dot-com hit
- Be passionate about what you do, dont let your passions dictate what you do. It needs to pay, or have a positive impact.
- Global Supply Chain is a wonderful field to be in.
- The biggest setback - Dad made him do something involved with retail
- How is driverless tech going to change stuff
- Boats are already driverless
- Next game-changer in transportation
- Expensive seat, health insurance, workmans comp, heat/Ac,
- Did you ever have problems with how fast the business grew?
- Not entirely- just hired more employees
- Hardest challenge starting your business - Finding out what your customers want.
- Definition of Success - Making a difference
- Picked up 20 competitors consumers a week
- Has 80% of the industry
- Far surpassed competitors
- Father helped start the company. Gave him $60,000 to start business. Father wanted to help control finances
- Marketed through direct mail, sent out thousands – only got 1 response
- Started with 3 employees who were unpaid
- For the 1st year, business grew by 100 customers per month
- How is his company successful?
- Listened to customers
- Found product that customers wanted, and had customers help and reach out to their connections
- Must have idea and know how to execute it
- Most new customers come from word of mouth
- Why didn’t p-freight succeed?
- Too ahead of technology
- Not so good at execution because of accountants
- What doesn’t he like about being the CEO of his company?
- Wishes he could just focus on coming up with ideas, however has to focus on managing and running the business
- What is your newest business?
- Internet Sky – corporate airline flying executives and employees around nation
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