Patrick Bishop didn’t start with a pitch deck. He started with a truckload of agave straws, and a decision to bet on himself.

In this episode, Patrick, Founder & CEO of Reroute Americas and Reroute AI, shares how a sustainability insight turned into a fast-growing hospitality supply business, and why inefficiencies in restaurant inventory management pushed him to build an AI platform from scratch.

We talk about:

• Why sustainable products don’t have to cost more
• How a hurricane wiped out 40% of the business, and forced a pivot
• What hospitality gets wrong about inventory, forecasting, and waste
• How AI can reduce over-ordering while improving ESG reporting
• The moment Reroute shifted from distribution company to tech company
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A candid look at building in a legacy industry, and redesigning systems most people accept as “just how it works."