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Matt McKinney

CEO and Co-Founder of Loop, an AI-native supply chain and freight payments platform transforming legacy transportation payment systems.

Aug 2, 2026

10:29
What are you going to do with your life? You know, like what did you do after that, you know, to kind of move through the world?
10:35
Yeah, major identity crisis for sure.
10:37
Anytime an athlete has to give up sports as their identity and shift, you know, their life focus.
10:44
You know, I, I found, I started looking for homeopathic and naturopathic doctors and started working with them.
10:50
And I started making progress on my stomach that year that I was medically retired.
10:55
By the end of that year in college, I called up the Olympic team coach for men's volleyball.
11:01
And I asked him if I can start training with us national team that next year.

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57:21
What inspires you right now? Like what's inspiring you to go to the next level?
116:00
It's us.
116:04
The limiting factor for AI and enterprise is not technology.
116:08
It's change management.
116:11
And that will be the case in the Global 2000s.
116:15
And there's certainly Global 2000s that are making very swift changes.
116:19
They've got great leadership.
116:21
They're prioritizing this from the top down.
PrakashHOST
101:18
So what kind of decisions can your clients take after, like, let's say Apple is looking at their data and what kind of decisions can they make? Can they make a decision like, okay, let's divert shipment A from, you know, aircraft B to aircraft C? Is that the kind of decision they make? Like, what are the kinds of things that drive value?
101:41
Yeah.
101:42
Let's just back up one step.
101:43
I mean, there are three things, really.
101:45
There's organizing the data, there's automating the operations, and then there's improving the intelligence of the decisions.
101:53
And I think it's important to go all the way back to mapping the data because that's the fundamental problem that no one else has solved in the industry.
102:00
And by the way, is the hardest problem to solve in the industry.
NathanHOST
106:07
So I guess, you know, from a couple different angles there, what do you see as the end state of success? How will we feel it and how will we make sure we don't
JohnHOST
67:02
Yeah.
67:02
You know, some...
67:03
A lot of these big companies, they do a bunch of M&A, and so you've got all these different versions of the truth.
67:07
So just take, for example, the weight and dimensions of a package or a shipment.
67:12
There could be seven different versions of the weight and dimensions for that package, and so you need almost like a, a data auditor itself to prove that that's the correct data.
67:23
And we get it from a bunch of different sources.
67:25
We get it from, you know, email.
JohnHOST
69:25
Mm-hmm

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