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Every business runs on people who plan. People Who Plan goes inside the minds of the operators, founders, and builders who do it every week — the decisions they make, the frameworks they use, and the hard lessons they've learned along the way.
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Ep. 18 | Aaron Alpeter, Founder & CEO @ Izba Group (opens the original)
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Everybody knows what S&OP is. Everybody has an idea of how it works. And nobody is happy with theirs. Aaron Alpeter has seen that problem from both extremes. He came up through Unilever's supply chain program when it was ranked the best in the world, then spent a decade in C-level operating roles at Lululemon, The Farmer's Dog, The Flex Company, and Hubble. In 2016 he founded izba, which helps consumer brands start, scale, and eventually sell. He joins Jeremy Pomp and Michael Rossiter to strip S
Ep. 17 | Jennifer Hernandez, Director of Operations @ BK Beauty (opens the original)
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People Who Plan — Ep. 17Running a Supply Chain on Spreadsheets (feat. Jennifer Hernandez, Director of Operations @ BK Beauty) Two months ago, Jennifer Hernandez downloaded Claude for the first time. Today she runs the entire supply chain of a fast-growing beauty brand with it. Jennifer is Director of Operations at BK Beauty, where she owns planning, forecasting, purchasing, freight, and fulfillment — on a deliberately lean stack. No ERP. No WMS. Shopify as the source of truth, and spreadsheets f
Ep. 16 | Brian Quinn & Daniel Spurlock, AE's @ Atomic (opens the original)
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Buying AI-native software isn't like buying traditional SaaS — and treating it like it is is why a lot of rollouts stall. Atomic AEs Brian Quinn and Daniel Spurlock join co-founder Michael Rossiter to unpack what really happens when a company moves off spreadsheets: why the old flexibility-vs-precision tradeoff is disappearing, how growth quietly manufactures its own complexity, and the point where adding one more planner (and one more spreadsheet) simply stops working. If you plan, forecast, or
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