When Doug Waggoner became the CEO of Echo Global Logistics in 2006, the company was a small startup with just 30 employees. Today, Echo is an industry leader, employing nearly 3,000 people and working with over 50,000 carriers.
Echo started its life with venture capital as a true startup, spent several years as a publicly-traded organization, and is now privately owned again and still growing.
Reflecting on the environment in which Echo was founded, Waggoner says there was a transition period...