Climate Mayhem - Presented By The Daily Marketer
Business:Entrepreneurship
Matt Kurman is the Director of Growth Programs at Convoy, a digital freight network transporting the world with endless capacity and zero waste (akin to "the Uber of freight"), as 1 of the 1st 15.
Which makes sense, given Matt formerly came from Uber , where he cut his teeth in the high octane world of marketplace startups. At Uber Matt was part of the hearty Ops team, the "beating heart" of Uber Seattle.
Back to Convoy! Over the course of 8 years, Matt went from founding member, to supply-side expert in physical marketplaces, has been a diehard evangelist of the company, while coming from the performance heavy world of college basketball where he was a "1000 point scorer".
This conversation was…full throttle (pun intended)! Very entertaining! It's loaded with gems of amazing stories of marketplace scale & challenges; Matt brings the ruckus and energy of an athlete to a marketplace, we love it.
We dive deep into…Taking the "road less traveled" (and what that meant for Matt), the "Dance" of building hard-earned trust & respect of trucking co's, 6 key principles of ops for a physical startup marketplace, breakthroughs in acquiring Supply & operating in a "Demand-lead" market, Convoy's ingenious flywheel that just KEEPS ON GIVIN!
This episode is particularly valuable for any founder, operator, or marketer who's involved in a PHYSICAL marketplace and needs to know the nitty gritty of a proven blueprint for scale. Booby traps are called out; you'll definitely want to listen to this one.
BON APPETIT! You can like & subscribe if you like to, but ultimately we'd PREFER to hear your thoughts: so tell us what you think of the episode & leave a review! You can also find show notes @ https://jakubkubicka.com/matt
#90: A&R Solar: CEO, Reeves Clippard, on the Sollarcoaster, Curating His Life to Solar, and Growing an Industry (Part 1)
#89 EVgo The EV Charger Dilemma and How We'll Reach Critical Mass of EVs (We're Closer Than You Think) (Part 2)
#88 EVgo Lead Data Scientist, Austin Zaccor, on What the VW Dieselgate Scandal & EVgo Share in Common (Part 1)
#87: Kerbo Charge: Breaking Habits, Tinders of Launching a Climatetech Startup & Getting Their Groove on (Part 2)
#86: Kerbo Charge: CEO & Serial Founder, Michael Goulden, on Democratizing EVs and Pioneering the Future (Part 1)
#85: Impossible Foods: Why Consumers Choose Tasty Plant-Based Meats and Getting Competitors to be Successful (Part 2)
#84: Impossible Foods: Sales SVP, Dan Greene, on Reverse Engineering Burgers, the Foodie Wedge To Consumers (Part 1)
#83: DroneSeed: Going Big with Drone-Based Reforesting, Launching a Carbon Offset Flywheel at Rapid Speed (Part 2)
#82: DroneSeed: CEO, Grant Canary, on Learning from Tree Machine Guns & Solving 1 Million Acre Fires (Part 1)
#81: Cloud Paper: Getting Big-Name Investors, Perfect Not Being an Enemy of Good, & Changing Human Behavior (Part 2)
#80: Cloud Paper: Cool Cat & CEO, Ryan Fritsch, on Bamboo's Wonder & Driving Multi-Generational Change (Part 1)
#79: What on Earth is Climate Mayhem? 2 Startup Junkies, Big Thinking, & a Hypothesis
#78: Cutting Teeth In the High Octane World of Marketplaces & Discovering Supply Principles With Uber Alumni and 1000-Point Scorer, Matt Kurman (Part 2)
#76: How do you build a marketplace startup from SCRATCH? Rover Co-founder, Bestselling Author, and TED Speaker, Greg Gottesman, Gives the Formula (Part 2)
#75: Co-founder and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs, Greg Gottesman, on Obsessing over Marketplace Dynamics and Killing Great Ideas (Part 1)
#74: How do you Disrupt the $40B Storage Industry, While Creating Passive Income for Every American? PR Expert, Casey Schow, Shares How (Part 2)
#73: What does the Utah Jazz, Passive Income, and the Uber of Storage all share in common? Casey Schow, Head of PR @ Neighbor (Part 1)
#72: Can you make a living as a gig worker? Founder & CEO of Solo, Bryce Bennett, on becoming indispensable to 60M US gig workers (Part 2)
#71: Marketplace Magnate and Former GM of Uber Portland, Bryce Bennett, on Lessons of "jumpstarting a marketplace" and "Marketplace Density"(Part 1)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Business Of
The Everyday Millionaire
Pure Hustle Podcast
Making Bank
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
I am Charles Schwartz Show