The Hard Part with Evan McCann

Ronak Trivedi from Pietra

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Ronak Trivedi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Pietra.

A Pietra membership unlocks access to cost-plus pricing across software, logistics, sourcing, and marketing tools; all while earning cashback every time you spend on your business.


Takeaways

  • The journey from the University of Waterloo to founding his own company.
  • Top lessons learned from working with Travis Kalanick at Uber and Cloud Kitchens.
  • The major pivot Pietra made and how to do pivots well.
  • The future of e-commerce.
  • Thoughts on competition and competitors building a similar product.
  • Building infrastructure, logistics and other challenging pieces of e-commerce.
  • Pietra's membership model.
  • Connecting global factories with a global network of founders and new businesses.
  • How Pietra works with factories and digitizes them.
  • Raising money and how Pietra raised from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, TQ Ventures, M13 and others.


    • Chapters

    00:00 Introduction and Journey into US Tech

    04:21 Early Days at Uber and Learnings

    16:07 Learnings from Working with Travis at Uber

    20:10 Filling the Gap in the E-commerce Industry

    26:49 The Future of E-commerce and Building Infrastructure

    29:40 The Importance of Customer Satisfaction and Profitability

    31:25 Enabling All-in Experience of Building a Company

    33:14 Owning the End-to-End Supply Chain

    37:26 The Membership Model: Discounted Software and Services

    41:12 Connecting Factories with a Global Network

    47:50 Dealing with the Roller Coaster Ride of Being a Founder

    50:07 Journey of an Entrepreneur


    Keywords

    Ronek Trivedi, Pietra, journey, engineering, Uber, startup, pivot, marketplace, creative entrepreneurs, Travis Kalanick, lessons, opportunities, building a business, e-commerce, Shopify, Pietra, platform, infrastructure, digital landscape, entrepreneurship, business, future, tools, products

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