049 - Jason Murray - eCommerce & the Digital Supply Chain

Jason is co-founder and CEO of Shipium where he guides the company’s vision towards becoming the world’s best supply chain technology platform for ecommerce and retail. Prior to founding Shipium, he spent 19 years at Amazon as VP of Retail Systems and VP of Forecasting & Supply Chain. While there, he owned the global software and operations group that powered Prime, Subscribe & Save and Pricing. He is a University of Washington grad, and an engineer at heart who loves solving complex scaling problems. Shipium makes fast and cheap shipping possible by coordinating previously disconnected steps of the supply chain through an API-first platform deeply integrated into existing systems. Jason Murray, CEO & Co-Founder, Shipium • 19-year ex-Amazon VP --- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-shipium/ https://www.shipium.com/ In episode 49, Jason Murray talks to Richard about: 0:02 : Meet Jason Murray. 3:55 : How did Jeff Bezos go from bookselling to ecommerce? 9:09 : What was the key to success in digitization of the supply chain? 14:13 : What are the lessons that supply chain will be taught on the next 10 or 20 years? 20:46 : The importance of data in the ecommerce experience. 26:11 : How the world saw Amazon transfer from books to ecommerce underneath the covers. 32:18 : The psychology of Prime members and pricing. 39:44 : The three steps of the manufacturing sales process. 46:48 : What do you see disruptively in the next five to seven years that may or may not be a part of this disruption? 53:52 : What’s coming up for Shipium in the next year?