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Zvi Schreiber

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
642 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

It's actual dollars through our platform, how much was spent on our platform, but that also depends on prices which we can't control.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

As you correctly guessed, we look at

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

Tonnage for air freight and number of containers for ocean freight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

Well, just because that's the way the ocean industry works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

There are these standardized containers, which you see going up and down the highways, 20 foot or 40 foot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

Um, so it's very easy to count.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

Uh, air freight doesn't go in a standard container.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

It goes in loose in most cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

So we measure it in kilos or tons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

Well, funnily enough, we only started a platform, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

And the reason for that is that before, yeah, the reason is, you know, actually we mentioned sort of Expedia.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

So if you think about the history when Expedia launched, I think around 97, the data for air travel was all collected by companies like Sabre and Amadeus had been around for decades actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

So they had all the backbone of the data and they could start marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

In our industry, there was no such thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

So we had to spend the first four years

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

building the equivalent of Sabre and Amadeus, getting all the data from the freight forwarders, the data, the rules, in order to have automated pricing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

Because if you call up a freight forwarder, you do not get a price instantly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

You get it after two or three days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?

So we had to create that infrastructure first.