right sitting timer welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the tech meme right home podcast i'm

brand mccullough as always this is a portfolio profile episode we haven't done one for a long

time and i'm so excited to bring you one that the ride home fund has invested in that I'm super excited about.

We are going to talk today about Middle Mile, and we're going to talk to Willis Jackson, the founder of Middle Mile.

Willis, can you give us to start off the show, sort of the

elevator pitch of what Middle Mile is and does? Yeah, so Middle Mile is, you can think of us

as the Airbnb of fulfillment. We are a distributed fulfiller for e-com companies direct-to-consumer channel.

Those companies have a huge challenge trying to grow these days.

We help them solve that problem by giving them a 100% two-day ship solution for all their orders.

It allows them to capture more customers.

And we do it by building a network of fulfillers who turn a basement or a spare

room into a mini fulfillment center for us and operate out of their home. And we do that without

being more expensive for the brand. So we're able to pay a good amount, give the brand a great

upside, and have a good business for ourselves too. Okay, I want to underline this.

This is the sort of the gig economy, the sort of door dash or whatever, but underlining that

you could be a person that has a garage, a basement, and what you would do is work with

Middle Mile, and you could be the person that fulfills the end point of the delivery for various e-commerce brands and what have you for um you you

take in the the goods and the orders and then um you bring it out uh in your own vehicle what have

you but it's literally your garage your basement. Like, that's the simple take here.

Yeah, it ultimately ends up being a pretty straightforward job.

They store inventory and, you know, that extra room that's just got too much stuff in it,

turn it into a little mini warehouse.

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