Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How do engineers and designers find you or how do you find engineers and designers to bring on to your platform? Drura Parrish: Mostly through traditional channels. We really care about our customers, but we’re out talking a lot. This is something that all of us at Xometry deeply believe in. We want

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 4)

Drura Parrish: When you look at all of the beautiful machines that are sitting across the manufacturing floors in the United States, think about how this zooms into the broader trend here. Let’s just say, the greatest e-commerce model that we know right now is Amazon who’s trying to sell things and to get to

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the new things that are getting designed and manufactured in America today? Drura Parrish: We’re still at the cutting edge of automotive and automotive components in electronics, hardware, and mechanical aerospace and all the supply chain that’s going into that.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What’s the geographical scope of your business? Drura Parrish: When you think about our geographic diversification, it follows along the pockets of industrial production in the United States. So why have suppliers concentrated around where planes are getting made? Why have suppliers concentrated around where automotive companies are assembling and making things? Likewise,

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 1)

Drura talks about the cutting-edge of American manufacturing and how e-commerce is impacting it. Superb interview. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Xometry. Drura Parrish: I’m the President of Xometry Supplies. Xometry is a fascinating company that’s working very fast and at scale to solve one of the

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rafael Zakinov, CEO of Ruby Has (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is the cost implication of all this? What does it cost to deliver this level of service? Rafael Zakinov: By working with a third-party logistics provider, there’s obviously a lot of advantage. Amazon has the advantage because they’re a goliath. A startup might not have that capital and scale to achieve multiple

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rafael Zakinov, CEO of Ruby Has (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: If an e-commerce vendor is trying to choose between you and another third-party logistics vendor versus Amazon, what is the case for choosing you? What is Amazon lacking? Rafael Zakinov: First of all, Amazon does not provide any customization to the process. They don’t allow you to brand the packaging. Everything must ship

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rafael Zakinov, CEO of Ruby Has (Part 1)

Amazon is setting the bar very high for e-commerce merchants in terms of delivery. Read how the industry is responding. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Ruby Has. Rafael Zakinov: I’m the Founder and CEO of Ruby Has Fulfillment. We’re an e-commerce-focused fulfillment company. We’re based out

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