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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is David Glick.

David Glick is the CTO of the FLEXE fulfillment technology platform.\\xa0

Before FLEXE, he spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, including five years as the VP of Fulfillment Technology, where he oversaw the development and functionality of the technology within Amazon\\u2019s fulfillment centers, as well as the technology for Amazon\\u2019s transportation

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A note from Grant

If you\\u2019ve ever wondered what the technology behind the scenes of some of today\\u2019s largest retailers looks like, you\\u2019re going to want to tune in as we catch up with Dave Glick, the CTO of Flexe, a warehousing and logistics company.\\xa0

After getting his PhD from UNC Chapel Hill (Go Heels) in physics \\u2014 I think this is our 3rd physicist turned technologist \\u2014 Dave spent 20 years at Amazon building out their fulfillment and transportation systems, amongst a variety of other roles throughout the company, before leaving to join Flexe as their Chief Technology Officer.\\xa0

When Dave is not making sure your order arrives on time, he holds down several advisory and humanitarian roles, including being a board member for Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking.\\xa0

-Grant Ingersoll

Quotes

\\u201cI ended up having to deal with pricing errors. We went through the process of setting prices on promotions automatically and manually. And what we found was that every time a human was involved, defects were injected.\\u201d

\\u201cWe were able to reduce pricing errors by 90 percent year over year.\\u201d

\\u201cPut the engineer close to the customer. Thats the number 1 piece of advice I\\u2019d have for an engineering leader.\\u201d

\\u201cYou\\u2019re basically automating the walking. If you think about automating the robot arm that picks an item out of a bin, that is a super hard problem, and no one has ever cracked the code at scale for that. But if you think about picking up a 300 pound pod and bringing it to a human, that is super easy. Robots are really good at that.\\u201d

\\u2014David Glick

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Learn more about FLEXE \\u2013 https://www.flexe.com/

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