In This episode of Blue Ocean by StartOps

We sit down with Arjun Aggarwal, founder and CEO of Mandrel.

Arjun envisions a future where a small team can run a $100M consumer brand. In this future, “inventory management” isn’t a discrete problem for operations teams — it’s part of the larger challenge of automating the whole business.

The first step towards this future is to unshackle operators from the worst parts of their work: data entry and data organization.

Starting with their AI-driven “no-touch” data entry, Mandrel is redefining how brands approach supply chain operations and defining a new category of Inventory Automation systems as an accompaniment to — or replacement of — traditional ERPs.

We cover topics like:

• How Arjun ended up running product for a publicly traded company in his 20s
• The surprising thing SMB and enterprise supply chains have in common
• How inventory management complexity kills product innovation, not just cash flow and margins
• The journey to the 1-person, $100M brand

To learn more about Mandrel, check out their profile on the StartOps Directory.