S8 Bonus: Ronald Richardson, Fleetbase

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Ron Richardson studied robotics and embedded systems in Arizona, and is a former Marine - which is where he got his start in logistics. His biggest influence has been his parents. He mentioned his Mom introduced him to a personal website builder, which kicked off his learning into HTML, PHP and JavaScript. Outside of tech, he has a passion for traveling, and is big into horror games and movies. One of his favorite horror games is Amnesia, and movie is Insidious. He actually built an app to have an ongoing curated playlist for his fans. Ron previously co-founded a startup in the eCommerce space, focusing on fulfillment in Asia. While he was building the backend for this solution, he noticed there weren't any developer tools for logistics and supply chain. He built an API solution and SDK to help implement common design features for this industry. This is the creation story of Fleetbase. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	So I think I had been working on the fleet-based API for about three to four months.
0:06.5	I went to Singapore and I showed it off to my buddies.
0:10.1	They're really impressed.
0:11.1	I kind of built a little UI over it so you can manage your API keys and orders and things like that.
0:18.1	It wasn't much on the UI side.
0:19.7	It was primarily API. And we had a contact out in
0:24.4	Malaysia who were hauliers. So we went and demoed API and we showed off the documentation. And they
0:30.5	were quite pleased with it. We ended up getting a partnership with Port Clang Authority. In Port
0:35.5	Clang, Malaysia, it's one of the busiest ports in the world.
0:39.7	My name is Ron, and I'm the co-founder and CTO of Fleet Base.
0:47.0	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing at the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	She took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.8	The company is its people.
1:06.3	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.7	All that infrastructure is a pain.
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