Convoy
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11 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2018 by Dan Lewis · said 36 times in 8 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (22), Dan Lewis (11), Anu Hariharan (2), Reid Hoffman (1)
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 31 mentions in 5 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
- 20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- 20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- 20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- 20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Convoy, oldest first
Mar 23, 2018
Dan Lewis: Convoy gamifies experiments by having employees vote on outcomes
“One thing we do that's fun, though, is when we do different types of experiments, especially ones that have more UI or more, we can frame them more clearly to the employees. We put them up on a wall in our office, and we'll have, like, the three treatments, or…”
Mar 23, 2018 positive
Mar 23, 2018 positive
Dan Lewis: Building an experimental culture requires hiring from data-centric companies
“And so one of the ways you create a culture of experimentation is you hire a lot of People who have been part of organizations and companies that do a lot of experiments. And then that, that can be both the type of person from where they come, like the company…”
Mar 23, 2018 bullish
Dan Lewis predicted in 2018 that trucking would transform by 2023
“Logistics and trucking today are about where industries like retail, music, travel, et cetera, were a decade ago. A lot of early progress, but things are just starting to get interesting. I think that over the next five years, you're going to see incredible in…”
Mar 23, 2018 negative
Dan Lewis: Convoy rejected board advice to expand into port drayage
“I think at one point the board was pretty convinced we really needed to go into, you know, working with the ports, doing container dredge and things like that. And, you know, that was all part of us becoming more educated about this business. And just like me,…”
Mar 23, 2018
Dan Lewis: Selling to traditional industries requires disrupting established workflows
“Trucking is a pretty traditional industry, and folks that work in the supply chain industry have been doing this for a while. We're not bringing them something they've never purchased before and saying, here's this thing you need. We're saying, you've been pur…”
Mar 23, 2018 positive
Dan Lewis: Truck driver smartphone adoption in 2014 enabled Convoy's model
“With Convoy, timing was crucial, and the reason it's working really well is on the trucking side, in 2014, approximately 2015, drivers started getting smartphones with a data plan and GPS. And, you know, most of the U.S.-based phone carriers started offering t…”
Mar 23, 2018 positive
Dan Lewis: Core values must drive daily meetings, not just recruiting
“Having a set of core values that you don't just use to talk about the business to recruits, but they use every single day in meetings and in reviews and in hiring and these values, you kind of go back and back, you know, you go back to over and over again.”
Mar 23, 2018 positive
Dan Lewis: Convoy used famous founder investors to win traditional customers
“And so when we were able to get investors that had built significant companies to come be a part of Convoy, that lent a lot of credibility and trust to our customers where they could say, okay, the founder of Amazon or the person who, you know, created and dev…”
Mar 23, 2018
Dan Lewis evaluated multiple business models with Hadi and Ali Partovi
“And I spent a lot of time actually with Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi exploring some of these ideas early, my co-founder, Grant Goodale. And then we kind of came up with the right business model in addition to, you know, four or five other ones that we looked a…”