Trucking was one of the very first industries in the US to be upended by the COVID-19 pandemic.

And today's founder, Pierre Laguerre, has a trucking startup.

His business has also been upended, but maybe not in the way you'd expect.

Before we get to that, Pierre made his pitch to our investors back in December 2019.

His goal to transform the trucking industry, an industry worth almost 800 billion dollars.

He wants to use technology to solve one of the most basic problems about trucking,

which is, how do you match the right drivers with the right

cargo at the right time. He knows a truckload about being a trucker, but to get the

money he needs he'll have to convince the investors He has the business chops and technical savvy to pull it off.

From Gimlet, this is the pitch.

I'm Josh Muccio.

Let's meet the investors.

I'm Maya Bitner.

Maya built two financial tech companies and sold them both.

Now she's out scouting startups for Sequoia,

one of the biggest VC firms in Silicon Valley.

I'm Elizabeth Yin.

Elizabeth is a managing partner at Hustle Fund,

and so far she's invested 30 million

in over 250 startups.

One example, a company called Nerd Wallet.

I'm Scheel Manette.

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