Staples

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TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
SemiCab's enterprise customers include Staples, PepsiCo, Colgate, and HP
“Customers are large enterprises like Staples and PepsiCo Colgate, HP some of the smaller midsize companies that are always looking to move goods in a truckload, full truckload.”
Ajish Kapoor Mar 9, 2022 ▶ 1:24 Trucking Software Goes $0 to $1.4m in 11 Months, $35m Valuation
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Partly supported
Kaluzny: Staples generated up to 80% of its profits from B2B logistics
“The vast majority, 65% of the sales and 75 or 80% of the profits were really a B to B services company that was a logistics company, to be Alcorant, that delivered two hundred million packages a year overnight to the Fortune 1000.”
Stefan Kaluzny Oct 21, 2021 ▶ 45:18 Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kaluzny: Staples' US retail stores matched their 2017 profitability in 2021
“This year, Staples retail stores will have the same two hundred million of profitability that they had four years ago when everyone forecasted zero, and that is still in a pandemic where we're underperforming.”
Stefan Kaluzny Oct 21, 2021 ▶ 47:46 Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
NEON SHOW Prediction Held up
Jhina: Indian food staples will increasingly become processed as GDP rises
“As, you know, GDP per capita goes up, as the country becomes richer, more and more staples will become, you know, processed, et cetera.”
Ashish Jhina Apr 14, 2021 ▶ 34:34 Inside the mind of Jumbotail Founders, Ashish Jhina & Karthik Venkateswaran | 100x Entrepreneur
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Boomerang Commerce Secured Enterprise Clients Like Staples, Best Buy, Home Depot
“And we were able to go out and win some very good deals and have some top tier customers like, say, Staples or Best Buy and Home Depot and Nordstrom and folks like that.”
Guru Hariharan Oct 6, 2019 ▶ 12:57 1534 With $10m in ARR, He Left Amazon to Help F100 Brands Sell More on Amazon
a16z Assertion Supported
Jeff Jordan: Staples reaches 40% online sales while rapidly closing stores
“Staples is right now up to something like 40% online, and they're starting to close stores pretty furiously.”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:31 a16z Podcast | Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision

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