Pablo Palafox

Voice was the unlock to many of the operations that are really needed to move the world if we talk about supply chain.

This is not a supply chain specific problem that we are solving.

It's actually an enterprise coordination problem.

100%.

So Luis and I met on our second day of college, just to set the scene, ever since we've been building stuff together.

Our other co-founder, Javi, he happens to be my brother, so I've known him for a little while.

We always wanted to build something together, right?

So when we got into YC,

We were looking for complex problems we could solve.

Keep in mind that Lisa and I had been literally building submarines for robotics competitions to find mannequins underwater.

That is the sort of problems we were looking for.

So when we decided on solving for that complexity, we looked at what Javi was doing as a CFO of the largest olive oil distributor in the world.

He was literally moving tons of olive oil across the ocean.

And that was that complexity that drew us into logistics and supply chain.

He literally had to hire interns to call drivers to see where they were, to see where the shipment was, because Walmart was asking him, where the hell is my shipment of olive oil?

So that was the sort of problems that we wanted to tackle.

And maybe you can talk about why we actually started with voice there.

Yeah.

What Luis was saying is very important.

Voice was the unlock to many of the operations that are really needed to move the world if we talk about supply chain.