Aug 20, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
Supply chains don't break at the nodes — they break at the seams. Hosts Malini Chatterjee and Diana Connor sit down with Sriram Nagaswamy, EVP of Technology at FourKites, to unpack why a decade of…
Sriram NagaswamyGuest
Malini ChatterjeeHost
Diana ConnorHost
So I'd had a couple of stints with large Fortune 500 corporations, and I was definitely looking for a startup in its early stage, which was doing obviously exciting work.
And for me, most importantly, it was also that what the startup was doing should be very, very simple to explain.
And Fokites essentially fit the bill because Fokites was founded to answer two primary questions.
Where is my shipment? When will it get to its destination? Both of these questions, as simple as they are, obviously involves a lot of data in the back end to be able to answer these two questions in a very, very simple way.
And when I started talking to Matt and the other executives, what I realized was that for a company of that size, you know, we already had a lot of data.
that definitely was the most exciting part for me because, you know, as we all know, data is now the biggest mod.
Just the fact that a startup could have that volume of data was extremely exciting and the possibilities that we could do with it.
And nine years later, I'm still as excited as I was on day one to continue the
So I'd had a couple of stints with large Fortune 500 corporations, and I was definitely looking for a startup in its early stage, which was doing obviously exciting work.
And for me, most importantly, it was also that what the startup was doing should be very, very simple to explain.
And Fokites essentially fit the bill because Fokites was founded to answer two primary questions.
Where is my shipment? When will it get to its destination? Both of these questions, as simple as they are, obviously involves a lot of data in the back end to be able to answer these two questions in a very, very simple way.
And when I started talking to Matt and the other executives, what I realized was that for a company of that size, you know, we already had a lot of data.
that definitely was the most exciting part for me because, you know, as we all know, data is now the biggest mod.
Just the fact that a startup could have that volume of data was extremely exciting and the possibilities that we could do with it.
And nine years later, I'm still as excited as I was on day one to continue the
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