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S8 Bonus: Bypassing the Enterprise Black Box: Building an Extensible, Headless Supply Chain Operating System with Ronald Richardson of Fleetbase
Apr 19, 2023 · Season 8 · 22 min
The OS layer for logistics
Ron Richardson studied robotics and embedded systems in Arizona, and is a former Marine - which is where he got his start in logistics. His biggest influence has been his parents. He mentioned his Mom introduced him to a personal website builder, which kicked off his learning into HTML, PHP and JavaScript. Outside of tech, he has a passion for traveling, and is big into horror games and movies. One of his favorite horror games is Amnesia, and movie is Insidious. He actually built an app to have an ongoing curated playlist for his fans.
Ron previously co-founded a startup in the eCommerce space, focusing on fulfillment in Asia. While he was building the backend for this solution, he noticed there weren't any developer tools for logistics and supply chain. He built an API solution and SDK to help implement common design features for this industry.
This is the creation story of Fleetbase.
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Website: https://www.fleetbase.io/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-a-richardson/https://apps.apple.com/us/app/horror-movie-night/id1613495460
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