About:

Jim Estill is a Canadian technology entrepreneur, executive, and philanthropist. He was a founding board member of Research in Motion, the creators of BlackBerry. Jim’s first business was EMJ Data Systems, which listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. He went on to build DaisyTek to 250 million in revenues, and while at the helm of Synnex, he took them from 800 million to 2 billion dollars in sales. Jim’s new venture is called ShipperBee, the Uber of the parcel delivery world.

Show notes:

• How Shipperbee wants to disrupt the global courier industry on the scale of Uber or Airbnb
• The gig economy and the trust economy – Building trust through brand experiences
• Legacy minded business – How the Shipperbee system looks after drivers and the environment
• The entrepreneurial mindset – How to scale and how to stop doing things
• Fail often, fail fast, fail cheap. How to experiment and stay lean
• Documentation, process and method – The “E-Myth” by Michael Gerber
• Knowing your niche – How the pandemic has impacted buying habits and how to redeploy resources
• Covid-19, the entrepreneur’s dream, changing the face of business today and shaping the businesses of tomorrow