Dell Podference: Consumer Sought Goods and the Pandemic Part Two
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus episode of Jill on Money, we're joined by Chieh Huang, the CEO of Boxed, an online and mobile membership-free wholesale retailer that offers direct delivery of bulk-sized packages.
As the pandemic unfolded, it caused an increase in demand for consumer sought goods and direct delivery of bulk-sized packages. In this episode, hear the story of how Boxed relied on technology to rise to the challenge.
This special episode is part of the Small Business Podference presented by Dell Technologies.
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"Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Small businesses are ready to thrive again and looking for resources to rise to the challenge. |
| 0:06.0 | That's why Dell Technologies has assembled an all-star lineup of podcasters for the third year in a row |
| 0:13.1 | to create a virtual conference to share advice and inspiration for small businesses. Whether |
| 0:19.5 | you're still working remotely or back together again, let Dell Technologies help safeguard your |
| 0:24.9 | business with modern devices and Windows 11 Pro. Search Dell Technologies' small business |
| 0:31.6 | podvrants on Odyssey.com, Spotify or Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:41.5 | Okay, this is it. Just three extra episodes of the course of two days. This is the second part of |
| 0:46.4 | our interview with Che Wong. He is the CEO of Boxed. And again, we are so delighted that he took |
| 0:53.3 | some time to chat with us. We just wanted to catch up with a few CEOs after the worst part of the |
| 0:59.6 | pandemic was behind us. Here's the second part of our interview with Che Wong. You get to the |
| 1:05.6 | summer of 2020. Things are kind of opening up in some parts. Crazy still. When is it that you think |
| 1:15.5 | about going public? Like, I presume those are conversations that were happening once you got out |
| 1:22.4 | of that very high intensity period in the beginning. So when did you start thinking this is something |
| 1:30.2 | we could actually do? It was right around that time. So, you know, we had always thought, and me |
| 1:36.8 | personally, it was always my dream to be a public company. Having made it, it's kind of like the |
| 1:41.7 | super bowl of capitalism of being an entrepreneur is to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange |
| 1:46.8 | one day. And you know, it was always kind of a pipe dream. I think so many people thought, |
| 1:52.8 | yeah, yeah, sure, Jay, you know, one day we'll be public, yes, what everyone says. But once we got |
| 1:56.8 | our wits about us, once things kind of settled down, you know, we got out of hard lockdown, you know, |
| 2:02.6 | we began to think, okay, I think this is our moment. And we should really try to kind of capture that |
| 2:08.4 | dream in the coming year. And so right around that time, we began to think about it. Tell me about |
| 2:13.7 | the idea of using a SPAC versus the traditional way that you would go public. Why go the SPAC route? |
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