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Of all the dozens of suspected thieves questioned by the detectives of the Train Burglary Task Force at the Los Angeles Police Department during the months they spent investigating the rise in theft from the city’s freight trains, one man stood out. What made him memorable wasn’t his criminality so much as his giddy enthusiasm for trespassing. That man, Victor Llamas, was a self-taught expert of the supply chain, a connoisseur of shipping containers. Even in custody, as the detectives interrogated him numerous times, after multiple arrests, in a windowless room in a police station in spring 2022, a kind of nostalgia would sweep over the man. “He said that was the best feeling he’d ever had, jumping on the train while it was moving,” Joe Chavez, who supervised the task force’s detectives, said. “It was euphoric for him.”

Some 20 million containers move through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach every year, including about 35 percent of all the imports into the United States from Asia. Once these steel boxes leave the relative security of a ship at port, they are loaded onto trains and trucks — and then things start disappearing. The Los Angeles basin is the country’s undisputed capital of cargo theft, the region with the most reported incidents of stuff stolen from trains and trucks and those interstitial spaces in the supply chain, like rail yards, warehouses, truck stops and parking lots.

In the era of e-commerce, freight train robberies are going through a strange revival.

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Flexport's Ryan Petersen joins Jason to discuss the economics of "pick and pack" (5:42), factory-to-consumer effects (16:00), the impact of the Red Sea crisis (24:14), Flexport's leadership changes (35:11), and much more!

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(0:00) Flexport’s Ryan Petersen joins Jason

(1:19) Ryan explains Flexport and the companies focus

(5:42) The Economics of Pick and Pack - Shipping Directly from China to Customer

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(12:31) The Origin of Pick and Pack in Global Logistics

(16:00) Factory-to-Consumer Effects on Fulfillment Centers and Product Quality

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(24:14) Analyzing the Impact of the Red Sea Crisis on Shipping

(29:35) The Trend of Companies Sourcing from Factories Outside China

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(35:11) Inside the Flexport CEO Drama and Leadership Challenges

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(47:51) Deciding When a Company Should Go Public

(52:07) The State of the Global Workforce and Remote Work in Today's World

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In/out lists are, like, so “in” right now. On social media, they’re a way to forecast what trends people will and won’t be fans of in the new year. So for this episode, we asked economists to predict what will be in and out for the 2024 economy. Plus, some sweet stories: an ice cream entrepreneur settles into a long-needed production facility, and Google Chrome begins phasing out third-party cookies. (But that doesn’t mean no more targeted ads.)

Day 665.

Today, we bring you the news from across the front lines, discuss the latest on sending cars to Ukraine from London, and we hear a dispatch from Francis Dearnley who took a microphone along to the Ukrainian Institute of London a week before Christmas.  

Contributors:

David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.

Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.

Danielle Sheridan (Defence Editor). @SheridanDani on Twitter.

Colin Freeman (Foreign Correspondent). @colinfreeman99 on Twitter.

Richard Lofthouse (Journalist). @richloft on Twitter.

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.

With thanks to the band Eco-war, for playing us out.

Charities: We have spoken to many charities this year - from Vans Without Borders, to GP Now, to KHARPP - and we receive many messages from listeners asking for recommendations of charities they can support. We include a link to the Ukrainian Institute of London's list of charities and organisations they recommend:

https://ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/russias-war-against-ukraine-what-can-you-do-to-support-ukraine-ukrainians/

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In a rapidly evolving landscape, the role of AI in supply chain management is both exciting and complex. In this episode, Leigh Chesley, a seasoned supply chain expert, delves into the transformative power of AI, revealing that the industry is still grappling with defining AI's role and impact. Tune in to explore the multi-faceted impact of AI on supply chains, from operational efficiencies to ethical implications.

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton thinks we’re already experiencing the technology of tomorrow, just that it’s not evenly distributed...

About a decade ago, Keller transformed his smartphone robot company into Zipline, which today orchestrates on-demand drone deliveries all over the world. Zipline got its start delivering critical medical supplies to hospitals in Rwanda: a testament to Keller’s belief that innovation is already improving lives outside the U.S.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Keller recounts the ongoing and often challenging development of Zipline’s delivery drones. Plus, how Zipline is now chasing the commercial market, and could soon be delivering packages from stores like Walmart within an hour of a customer clicking “purchase.” 

This episode was produced by Carla Esteves and edited by John Isabella, with music by Ramtin Arablouei. Our audio engineer was Josh Newell. 

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Millions of Americans don’t have enough to eat — a startling fact considering 40% of the food produced in the U.S. gets thrown away. And a lot of that food… from restaurants, supermarkets, office buildings and more… is perfectly safe to eat. What’s worse is that this discarded food waste produces harmful methane emissions that contribute to global climate change.

Jasmine Crowe-Houston is an entrepreneur who became obsessed with these problems. In 2017, she founded Goodr, which works with businesses to take unused food and deliver it to those who need it. Instead of paying waste management companies to throw surplus food into landfills, businesses can work with Goodr to deliver that food to local nonprofits that get it to people in need.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Jasmine talks with Guy about solving the logistical challenge of delivering surplus food to people experiencing food insecurity. Plus, the two discuss Jasmine’s decision to launch Goodr as a for-profit organization, and the growing corporate focus on sustainability that’s led to Goodr’s rapid growth.

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Today, we talk about Flexport Founder Ryan Petersen bringing on Amazon’s Dave Clark to be CEO (2:56). Then, we discuss Bird laying off almost a quarter of their team (17:32), and we talk about Twitter working on a bring-your-own algorithm feature (28:24). Our Startup of the Day is Multiverse, a startup building a pipeline of apprenticeships as a college alternative (37:47). We cover Citadel getting into crypto (47:25) and SEC Chair Gary Gensler hinting there might be some overhauls coming to payment for order flow (54:33). We end with a recap of Jason on Megyn Kelly’s show (1:00:10) and Kara Swisher leaving NYT for Vox (1:17:07).

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(47:25) Citadel Securities Is Building a Crypto Trading Marketplace (According to Coindesk Sources)
(54:33) SEC Chair Gary Gensler hinted that there might be some overhauls coming to PFOF (payment for order flow)
(1:00:10) Jason on Megyn Kelly
(1:17:07) Kara Swisher leaving NYT for Vox
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes' experience designing, printing, and shipping out his sticker packs.

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Show Notes

• 01:26 Sponsor: LogRocket
• 02:15 Sponsor: Linode
• 03:51 How Wes sells stickers
• Syntax 346: Selling And Shipping T Shirts with TypeScript
• 04:27 Where the stickers are printed
• Zigpac
• 06:30 How the stickers were designed
• 07:38 How do you ship them anywhere in the world for $5?
• 10:46 Packing the stickers
• 13:58 How did Wes sell the stickers?
• 16:51 Any concern about two people ordering at the same time?
• 17:13 One thing that did break
• Pushover
• 18:13 How the stickers were shipped
• Stallion Express
• APC
• 25:42 Costs for stickers
• 28:37 TypeScript sticker logo

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First Jason and Molly discuss reports from "The Information" that Jokr is looking to sell its NYC delivery business due to heightened competition (1:51). Next, they cover how Cruise is opening up its driverless vehicles to give rides in San Francisco (11:09). 

Then, Gopuff Co-founder and Co-CEO Rafael Ilishayev joins to discuss his rapid delivery business (19:12). 

Almost a decade ago, Raf and his co-founder Yakir Gola started one of the fastest-growing commerce businesses while in college.  Most recently they raised $1B at a reported $15B valuation in July 2021. In this episode, you will learn:

1. The rationale behind operating a vertically-integrated model

2. How they operate hundreds of micro-fulfillment centers & manage deliveries in 20 minutes

3. Why they acquired BevMo and Liquor Barn to accelerate their alcohol delivery business instead of building it themselves

4. The challenges he sees going forward to operate the business well

5. Why Gopuff launched their own private label called “Basically” and hot food offering called "Gopuff Kitchens"

6. How influencers like Mr. Beast are choosing Gopuff as a key platform to distribute products

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(01:51) The Information reported that Jokr is shopping it's NYC delivery business
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(32:54) Gopuff's focus on the SKUs that matter for their customers
(35:10) Can Gopuff operate profitably?
(38:41) Managing Gopuff deliveries
(43:34) Gopuff's pace of expansion
(49:45) Will Gopuff enter the cannabis market?
(50:51) What are Gopuff's potential headwinds?
(53:27) Why Mr. Beast picked Gopuff as a distribution channel
(59:24) How Gopuff picked up talent from the defunct Brandless team to launch their house brand, Basically
(61:59) Gopuff's sustainability measures

The humble wooden shipping pallet is probably not something that most people think about too much. But it's a huge deal. At Virginia Tech, there's a whole center that focuses on pallets and packaging. And like many other things right now, the price has surged, and now everyone is aware of them. So what caused the price to soar and when will things normalize? On this episode we speak with Marshall White, a Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech, and the country's leading expert on the wooden pallets. We talked about the history of the industry, its market structure, and where things are heading

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"Beyond the Meme: Ever Given, Supply Chains, and the Physical World" -- by Ryan Petersen (June 2021). Bio + essay details/ originally appeared at: https://future.a16z.com/beyond-the-meme-ever-given-supply-chains-and-the-physical-world/

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You can't talk about supply chains without talking about warehouses. Basically everything we buy at some point eventually sits in a warehouse. But warehouses themselves are changing. Whereas at one point, they were simple and straightforward — goods come in before getting trucked to retail outlets — today they're massively complex, thanks to e-commerce and needing to deal with returns. On this episode, we speak with Mark Manduca, the CIO of the logistics firm GXO, about warehouses during the pandemic and what the future looks like.

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There's been a false dichotomy in technology and management lore over the past decade, between "brain" and "brawn", digital and physical, independence and interdependence, software culture versus industrial culture… or so observes Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer, former big-company executive, and startup founder Robert Siegel in his new book, The Brains and Brawn Company: How leading organizations blend the best of digital and physical.

Whether you're an early startup or a Fortune 500 company, we live in an increasingly complex world -- which means embracing digitization is not enough. But logistics, supply chains, and infrastructure are messy, ugly, and hard. So today's leaders have to think completely differently, in terms of ecosystems; and they're often in the position of having to influence but not have control. So when and how do they assert power in an ecosystem? When do they try to shape it? When do they sit back? What to do if their channel partner suddenly changes? When do you want to stay frenemies and when do you wanna be enemies? These are just some of the hard questions companies today have to wrestle with... All boiling down to when and where to partner, when to go it alone?

So in this hallway-style discussion among Siegel and fellow Stanford b-school lecturers Jeffrey Immelt (former CEO of GE) and a16z general partner Jeff Jordan -- in conversation with host Sonal Chokshi -- the group wrestles with these questions, spinning through several different company examples such as Instacart and Stripe to Apple and Android/Google to Disney, Peloton, and others. But we talk too much about the outliers; we need to also talk more about the tools, and mindsets, that leaders of all kinds -- not just the once-in-a-generation leaders! -- can use. After all, argues Siegel, "Incumbents are not doomed and disruptors are not ordained."

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