Avnet
Avnet Inc is an electronic component technology distributor and solutions provider. It serves customers from startups and mid-sized businesses to enterprise-level original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers, and original design manufacturers (ODMs). The group operates in the Electronic Components segment and supports high and medium-volume customers to markets, sells, and distributes electronic components, and the Farnell segment supports lower-volume customers that need electronic components quickly to develop, prototype, and test their products. Its geographic regions are the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.www.avnet.com
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Nov 3, 2026
Edward SmithGUEST
I used to remember one of the defense contractors we helped do something really good for.
Edward SmithGUEST
And that guy would call me probably 10 years after I left Avnet, would still call me.
Edward SmithGUEST
Hey, can you help me with this? Do you know who I should call for this? And that tells you they trust you, that you're a trusted advisor to them, not just Somebody that they call, you know, are waiting for the call.
Edward SmithGUEST
They start calling you.
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Edward SmithGUEST
Oh, I have gotten all kinds.
Edward SmithGUEST
I guess one of the biggest, you know.
Edward SmithGUEST
A piece of advice I got was from Mr. Gallagher at Avnet.
Edward SmithGUEST
When he said to me, hey, listen, you could try to win one customer at a time, or you can win over one supplier, which wins you a couple hundred customers over.
Samir Bounab ToledanoGUEST
For a few years, grew that company like fivefold.
Samir Bounab ToledanoGUEST
And then as we had a really good momentum with all the IoT wave, to continue to serve that wave, we sold that company to a big Fortune 500 called Avnet, which is a big electronic distributor, US-based in Phoenix.
Samir Bounab ToledanoGUEST
And this is when I moved from Europe to the U.S. actually.
Samir Bounab ToledanoGUEST
I was supposed to stay two years just to manage the integration and go back to France.
Scott AbbottGUEST
From there, that was kind of cool though, because I went from being kind of high profile entrepreneur to being an intrapreneur.
Scott AbbottGUEST
I got picked up by my buddies at Avnet, small little $32 billion publicly traded company.
Scott AbbottGUEST
And they asked me to become a guy who came in and helped them create new businesses, expand divisions.
Scott AbbottGUEST
And I had a blast, man.
Ian HellerHOST
Well, I think all that technology is getting a lot better, right? And I always make a distinction between a closed-box warehouse and a broken-box warehouse, right? So a broken box warehouse is your average local distributor, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, et cetera, where they've got all these cases and a lot of them in the warehouse are open and people have to take onesies and twosies out, right? And then you've got closed box or sealed box warehouses where you're moving pallets and sealed cases that never get opened until their next destination.
Ian HellerHOST
And, you know, so master distributors and food distributors and liquor distributors, and to some degree, electronics distributors, particularly the ones who serve manufacturing like Aero and Avnet, those are all, you know, sealed box warehouses, right? They never get opened at, well...
Ian HellerHOST
They rarely get opened at that distributor.
Ian HellerHOST
They're opened by their customers.
Ruth HeyduckHOST
Welcome to We Talk IoT, where we explore the ideas and impact behind AI-driven tech of the future and how data creates real business opportunities.
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I am your host, Ruth Haydak.
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[upbeat music] Warehouses run on forklifts and data, however, the data often lags behind reality.
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