Thrilled to announce that Trucksmarter has joined @PoeticHQ. Dan Kao will lead operations, and the rest of the team will focus on accelerating our work in supply chain. Dan is a force of nature. He got his start as DoorDash’s youngest GM, where he ran all of Canada. He then led one of Uber’s largest business units, scaling freight from zero to $500M+ revenue. We met years ago through @foundersfund, who backed us both. I watched Trucksmarter grow to a $500M+ lending business, serve 1M+ truckers, and facilitate billions of transactions. The most important companies on earth run as a collection of thousands of archaic processes. Poetic learns each one from experts, translates it into self-healing code, and proposes improvements so companies can evolve past where they got stuck. As we began running core operations at the largest manufacturers, we realized it was possible to leapfrog old approaches to classic problems like scheduling, forecasting, and procurement. To move faster, we needed a team who knew the industry deeply. We’re lucky Dan and the team decided to join the fight.