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Evan Walker Bought an Old Trunk. Then He Repacked the Internet.
A fragile antique in Florence gave Evan Walker a durable idea: independent shops deserved the same post-purchase certainty as Amazon. Route became his answer - and his lesson in knowing when a founder should move from the controls to the map.
Inside the 63-Person Company Rewiring Caterpillar’s Parts Pipeline
FDC Solutions picked a narrow, unglamorous problem - getting the right heavy-equipment part to the right place before downtime becomes expensive. Twenty-four years later, its software sits between dealer ERPs, warehouse workers, robots and customers across more than 80 Cat dealer organizations.
Jitsu
Jitsu is a tech-enabled, vertically integrated last-mile delivery company that helps e-commerce brands get parcels to the doorstep quickly, cheaply, and with unusually few lost packages. Formerly known as AxleHire, the Berkeley, California company built its own warehouse management, sortation, routing, and driver software so every system talks in real time, and it now covers 23 of the 25 largest U.S. metro areas with same-day, next-day, and two-day options at rates competitive with traditional ground shipping.