Dwight Gaston

VP, Portfolio Operations, Platinum Equity · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dwight Gaston is an operations and fulfillment leader who previously served as Chief Delivery Officer and COO at Julep Beauty and as Chief Operating Officer at Crowd Cow. Before Julep, he spent 15 years leading supply chain and fulfillment operations as Senior Vice President of Operations at Blue Nile.

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1 prediction · 1 assertion · 1 insight · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Gaston: Julep launches approximately 30 new cosmetics products every month

“Because we've got we're generating about 30 products a month that are brand new, and some of those are just new nail colors, but a lot of those are new other cosmetic products”

Dwight Gaston Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:29 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops

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Insight

Gaston: Root cause analysis must focus on process flaws, not people

“When defects occur making sure that the root cause analysis is not attacking the people involved, it's attacking the process.”

Dwight Gaston Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:05 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Gaston: 18-month product launch cycles are unsustainable in modern supply chains

“The world of a, you know, 18 month product launch cycle just can't maintain itself. Something's gotta, gotta break. I think it's gonna force companies in, through that entire supply chain to get more flexible, to get more nimble, and then they'll, you know, th…”

Dwight Gaston Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 48:35 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops

Assertion Supported

Gaston: Julep launches approximately 30 new cosmetics products every month

“Because we've got we're generating about 30 products a month that are brand new, and some of those are just new nail colors, but a lot of those are new other cosmetic products”

Dwight Gaston Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:29 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops

What-if

Gaston: Blue Nile accidentally bought a warehouse vault that would collapse floors

“We were doing a big expansion in our fulfillment center at Blue Nile, and we needed to buy a second vault, and we have these big, you know, very secure vaults that we built, and long story short, the person I put in charge of that didn't, you know, do a lot of…”

Dwight Gaston Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:33 a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops	Jan 2, 2019	9m

Dwight Gaston

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