In Episode 5, Tobenna chats with Co-Founder & CEO at KeepTruckin, Shoaib Makani.

KeepTruckin is the modern fleet management platform building solutions that make drivers and fleets safer, smarter, and more efficient. To date, Shoaib has raised over $229M from some of the world's leading investors including Index, GV, Greenoaks, IVP & Scale Venture Partners. Pre-founding KeepTruckin, Shoaib was an investor at Khosla Ventures where he led investments in Instacart, Everlane, and Indiegogo to name a few. Before venture with Khosla, Shoaib was on the operations side enjoying roles at both Google and Admob.

In this episode our listeners will learn:

• How Shoaib transitioned from the world of venture capital to trucking
• The KeepTruckin mission and their journey to serving thousands of truck drivers in a short period of time
• The impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on KeepTruckin operations
• KeepTrucking products, especially the AI Dash Cam, Smartboard, and other compliance strategies deployed
• His excitement about technological innovation in the Freight & Trucking Industry

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Tobenna Arodiogbu: A lot of people don’t realize that before 2016, a lot of owner operators had to keep track of their logs on paper. It was complex, I can see how having the mobile app and moving to the full ELD has saved a lot of people a lot of headaches on the compliance side.

‍Shoaib Makani: We really thought about the electronic log in application as a bridge between the paper world and the ELD world. When we started the company, we knew there was ELD regulation being contemplated but we didn’t know when it would be brought to market. Our view is we’ll go and build an audience for this free application and deliver value to our customers. We had conviction that if we deliver value and build trust with drivers and fleets we would figure out what to do next. Most importantly, what we wanted to do was build that trust and relationship and connectivity with drivers as well as fleet owners.

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Truckers & Nerds is hosted by Tobenna Arodiogbu, CEO and founder of CloudTrucks.

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