Brad Jacobs

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.

And it's probably the most tech forward warehouses you'll ever see.

Not you'll ever see.

In the future, they'll all be automated like that, but you will be able to see today.

There's warehouses that are large warehouses that a competitor may be running and having hundreds of people running it.

And GXO is running it with 15 people.

And everything's well-engineered and well-designed using state-of-the-art technology.

And it has a big joint venture with Nestle over in Europe of the warehouse of the future, which now is the warehouse of today.

So I'm just giving you a few examples of utilizing technology, but I could give you hundreds of examples because

That's a mindset that's in every company I've run is how do we use technology and capitalize on the trends?