Andrew Lynch is President and Co-Founder of Zipline Logistics. Starting his career in carrier procurement and management within a Fortune 100 logistics company, Lynch has held positions of responsibility in all areas of third-party logistics. At Zipline, he works alongside CPG clients who have scaled from growing companies to multibillion-dollar brands by creating holistic logistics strategies.
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Anthony Davis: This is Anthony Davis, one of the founders and hosts of the of the podcast, and today I’m happy to welcome Andrew Lynch, the president and co-founder of Zipline Logistics to the show. Andrew, happy to have you.
Andrew Lynch: Hey, thanks for having me! I’m super happy to be here.
Anthony Davis: Yeah, and, you know, why don’t you tell tell us a little bit about yourself and your company so we give the give the listeners an idea of your background.
Andrew Lynch: Sure. So I’m I’m 44 years old. I don’t know what generation that makes me, but I fell luckily enough, fell completely backwards out of college into a career in third party logistics.
I started my career at the largest non-asset based transportation provider in the world, a large publicly traded business called CH Robinson Worldwide, where, you know, my my role there was it was essentially going out and finding trucks to move freight, building relationships with trucking companies and sort of leveraging those relationships into pricing opportunities.
It was a great time. I fell backwards into it sort of in a “Hey, I just need a job out of college to get me to Chicago and figure it out from there” kind of way. And I just I absolutely adored it. I love the company I worked for. I met wonderful people. I met my wife. I made lifelong friends and I learned an enormous amount about a business that I didn’t even know existed until I until I graduated from college. So I think that’s one of the one of the great lessons in working.
And for me, I think it was harder for me to explain to my friends what I was up to than most of my other friends, you know, found. I think when you’re an accountant, you’re an accountant. But when you’re trying to explain that you talk to truck drivers and CEOs and company owners set appointment all day mostly in a combative way to make a living, that’s pretty heavy.
Six years into that, the thing that stood out to me the most was that the world of third party logistics was a world of very generalized businesses. If you go on to any third party logistics company’s website, it’s like “we can move anything anywhere for anyone on any truck of any kind, you know, at any time.”
So in 2007, at the, at the ripe old age of 26, we decided to go out on our own and start our own business.
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