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Oren Zislansky

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
247 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

And then the last mile is that process in reverse, you know, getting off a highway exit, navigating through urban rural environments, backing into, I mean, you can picture what this would look like.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

Um, I think that is a long way out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

That being said, when not, if there's a regulatory problem as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

commercial launch, kind of official first round, hire our first employees January of 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

It was a year and a half project side hustle for me prior to that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

Yeah, well, run rate revenue in year one, I think we went out at about a 2 million run rate and 2.5 million run rate of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

And we were pretty darn proud of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

It went well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

No, I'd say we are really proud and passionate about being the only certified B Corp in freight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

So we have an opportunity here kind of from a social entrepreneurism angle to create significant market value, real returns for our investors and ultimately in the public markets and have a real market cap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

We want to build both the largest freight company in the world and the most profitable freight company in the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

We want to do both of those things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

The scale will come before the profit, but we intend to do both while we simultaneously help do our part to save the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

We believe passionately there can be a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas through our model, so much so that we're on the precipice of being able to launch actual carbon credits worldwide.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

to our customer for buying from us because the model is so much more efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

You're actually kind of getting the first word on that externally that we're in the process of bringing that to market right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

The outside world doesn't know it yet, but we've got a certifying entity of actual carbon credits, not some white-labeled off-market product, but Tesla carbon credits, so to speak, to Toyota.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

of bringing that to market now because the certification entities are looking at what we're doing and saying, man, that is no joke.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

That is so much more efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation

And of course, we believe that it's an awesome opportunity to drive additional acquisition, retention, but to further drive our purpose of saying, you know, we think we can build a very viable asset while at the same time helping to do our part to save the world.