Inc. Magazine – September 2019

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTONIO CHICAIA ● ● ● SEPTEMBER 2019 ● INC. ● 115

I love numbers.

When I’m driving down the highway

going 47 miles an hour, if the closest

city is 57 miles away, I’m going to

calculate exactly how long it will take

to get there.

When you’re very numerical, you’re

very logical. I’m not very emotional and

that’s definitely one of my issues, espe-

cially in my relationships. People hate

to hear statistics.

At 13, I played video games competi-

tively—there were teams across the

world that would play each other on-

line. At that level, you need specialty

machines to compete. That got me

into building computers.

At 15, I was hired at Circuit City as

seasonal help in the CD department.

That Christmas, I was the number-one

sales rep—in the computer department.

I wasn’t supposed to be selling them,

The increasing primacy of e-commerce

ensures that logistics and transport

companies are well-represented on recent

Inc. 500 lists. (Indeed, last year’s top 10

featured two firms that serve that space,

including the No. 1 company, SwanLeap.)

That opportunity has drawn lots of new

businesses. So how can you succeed amid all

that competition? Matt Pyatt, the co-founder

of Arrive Logistics—which brokers vacant

space in trucks for clients like Kraft and

Pepsi—knows how his company cracked the

500 this year: It all comes down to the math.

—AS TOLD TO UNA MORERA

Kept on Trucking

Arrive Logistics’

co-founder Matt Pyatt,

at his company’s

offices in Austin.