Brad Jacobs
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And he was my CIO for a number of years.
And then he became chief customer officer.
Did a great job there.
And then he ran LTL.
And today he's CEO of the whole company.
And he's doing a fantastic job.
This morning, the stock was up 12%.
They announced earnings and they did a great job.
It's a good quarter.
So technology has been a big part of the culture of XPO, largely due to Mario and my support of that right from the get-go.
And if you look at the companies we spun off, RxO, so RxO is a very tech-forward company.
brokerage company.
So they're matching together shippers and deliverers, trucks and shippers, and doing it in an automated way.
When we started that business, 0% was done automated.
Today, 97%, almost 100%, 97% is either generated or fulfilled electronically.
So it's complete transformation of a business using technology.
If you look at the third company that I chair, GXO Logistics.
So GXO is
is the largest pure play warehouse company.
It's got over 200 million square feet of warehouses with about a thousand warehouses in dozens of countries.