#2173 The upside of naivety when you have a big idea

When I interviewed the founder of Tradeshift ten years ago, he had a very simple idea: Facebook for businesses. I don’t think even he could have imagined the complex problems he would encounter along the way. Things like global tax compliance, cloud security and enterprise integrations.

But he figured it out and today Tradeshift is a unicorn with some very wide moats protecting it. I’ll ask him about all of it in this interview.

Christian Lanng is the founder of Tradeshift, a network and platform for supply chain payments, marketplaces, and apps.

Christian Lanng is the founder of Tradeshift, a network and platform for supply chain payments, marketplaces, and apps.

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