Everything in our lives — from the cheese in our quesadillas to the tires on our cars — has traveled through a loading dock. In fact, every year, $10 trillion — of the world’s total $80 trillion GDP — is spent moving goods around the world.
When I dropped out of Stanford two years ago, the future of logistics was already rapidly changing. I made it my mission to see every warehouse, distribution center, and factory that would let me in. As I criss-crossed the country speaking with hundreds of truck drivers, factory workers, supply chain managers and senior industrial…