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Oren Zaslansky

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
299 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

It took us all of 2019 of getting it more wrong than right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

And then 2020, it clicks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

We go from 25 million to 100 million by the end of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

We go from, you know, we're not totally explicit about the revenue numbers, but more than 300 million at this point already.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

I am.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

Thanks for having me today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

uh well i think it's fair to say we've we've achieved product market fit um it took uh we're almost six years old the end of uh 2021 will be a six-year-old company and the first four years were excruciating i cringe sometimes when i meet people today and they they meet us today and they think oh this is easy you guys are killing it and the reality is like well you should have met us in 2018.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

So, you know, four years of building technology, building a business, working on use cases, getting it wrong, getting it right, getting it wrong again, listening to the customer, iterating, iterating, not pivoting, but iterating, you know, a very agile environment until we really understood what they needed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

And we figured that out in early 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

And that was a guarantee of a shared truckload at the point of purchase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

For the first three years, we were... Wait, Oren, dive deep into that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

So, you know, the common way of moving palletized goods, first of all, goods move on pallets in the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

So you're a manufacturer and you've made tables, chairs, computers, food, you know, kind of everything and anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

They're put on a pallet and they're sent across a very dense hub and spoke.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

Think eight drivers, eight trucks, eight terminals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

To go from that LA to Chicago example that we spoke about last time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

Um, and that is unfortunately a very low quality.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

It doesn't pick up on time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

Doesn't deliver.

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