106 - Hand Off Technology and Your Growth Stalls
What do you do as a CEO when the supplier behind most of your inventory disappears overnight? Rupesh Sanghavi, founder of Ergode, faced exactly that when half.com shut down and took 80 to 90 percent of his inventory source with it. In this episode of The Breakout CEO, he walks through how each disruption, from a lost supplier to a ceiling on C2C margins, the COVID acquisition window, and tariff uncertainty, pushed his ecommerce company into its next business model.
Rupesh started by buying a textbook on eBay and pre-selling it on Amazon, then wrote software to automate the buying while still…
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