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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,…”
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…”
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…”
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…”