12/09/2025
✨ “Start with what you have. Solve a real problem. Success will follow.”
In 2012, T.K. Xu was working as a delivery driver in California, earning just enough to cover his bills. But every day on the road, he noticed the same problem:
📦 Small businesses were struggling to ship products quickly and affordably.
Instead of ignoring it, he decided to act.
With zero investors, a borrowed laptop, and a tiny garage, T.K. started building a platform to help small businesses schedule fast, low-cost deliveries using local drivers. Most people told him it wouldn’t work.
But he kept going.
Fast-forward to today — his company, ShipEase, handles over 50,000 deliveries a day, partners with more than 12,000 small businesses, and was recently valued at over $500 million.