Joey Rubinstein, CEO, Supplyve on Redefining Ordering for Independent Retail

Joey founded Supplyve in May of 2021 after seeing firsthand the rampant issues in Small Retail. He's a graduate of University of Maryland's Supply Chain program, and today sits on the technology council of the National Small Business Association.

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 Joey Rubinstein

CEO

Supplyve

https://www.supplyve.com/

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[00:00:00] Jeff Roster: Hello everybody. Welcome back to this week and innovation today. I have two very interesting guests. I have Joey Rubenstein, CEO of supply and kin doubt. Joey, welcome to the podcast.

[00:00:11] Joey Rubinstein: Thank you so much, Jeff. It's great to be here.

[00:00:13] Jeff Roster: And tell me a little bit about yourself and what you're up to, what your company's.

[00:00:17] Joey Rubinstein: Sure. I studied a supply chain and entrepreneurship at the university of Maryland go TURPs. And basically after that, one of my friends approached me and he was running this independent retailer.

[00:00:27] And he realizes, oh shoot. The way that we're doing our supply chain is really problematic. Everything was very manual. There were all sorts of issues in terms of the way in which they ordered, how they ordered from who they were ordering, when they were ordering you name it, they had problems with it.

[00:00:40] We, started speaking to hundreds and hundreds of different people that were within the industry, trying to understand if this is a real problem or just something that was, localized

[00:00:46] turns out it's a huge problem. So we dove in headfirst.

[00:00:51] And basically what we're trying to do is we're trying to redefine their ordering process from their vendors and make their lives a million times.

[00:00:58] Jeff Roster: So let me understand. When you [00:01:00] talk about independent, what's your definition of independent retailer?

[00:01:03] Joey Rubinstein: An independent retailer is basically a one, mom and pop store all the way up to, as a chain of like 10 stores.

[00:01:09] Jeff Roster: Very interesting. And today those retailers I'm thinking about my brother's place. It's probably a lot of paper. I'm not even sure. There's Excel sheets. There's probably, you're