Zero experience. Zero contacts. Zero clue how to run a courier business.
He bought a $1M last mile logistics company anyway , and 14 years later walked away with a private equity exit.

In this episode of Last of First Podcast, Jason Burns sits down with Walker Allen, founder of A3 Holdings and former owner of Specialty Freight & Courier — a logistics entrepreneur who built a medical courier network from scratch, survived a recession, fought an independent contractor misclassification lawsuit, and managed 1,500 drivers inside a PE-backed last-mile platform.

We get into:

-Why $10M is the danger zone for every courier business
-The gross margin benchmarks every logistics operator needs to know
-What private equity REALLY looks like inside a last mile company
-The misclassification lawsuit that changed everything
-Why you can NOT save your way to profitability in last mile delivery
-Where AI and consolidation are taking the courier industry

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