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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

No, it's not.

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

But also, if it's available, what's it going to cost?

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

You know, it's a spot market.

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

So it may be a low price today.

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

It may be a high price tomorrow.

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

And then to really blow this thing up.

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

The cost of contracting that entire truck.

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

He may charge you a thousand today.

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

It may be 900 tomorrow.

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

It could be 1200 the day after that, especially around the holiday time.

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

So the context of your question, given holiday, you're right, right?

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

Demand is surging right now.

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

Supply is kind of fixed.

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

This is not a gig economy the way we see with Uber and Lyft and Rideshare or DoorDash or Instacart.

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

Those are gig economies whereby, in theory, supply conflicts with demand.

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

In our space, you're a commercial truck driver driving a $100,000 tractor trailer full-time.

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

You're drug and alcohol tested.

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

This is what you do.

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

It's not a side hustle.

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

Like you were either a truck driver or you're not a truck driver.