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No industry relationships, no experience working
in supply chain. So we started cold-emailing
people we knew who had business relationships
in China, looking for factories online, and emailing them from
our personal Gmail accounts. Because we had never
done this before, you know, there were all these
really basic questions about how a federal procurement
operation should work
in supply chain. So we started cold-emailing
people we knew who had business relationships
in China, looking for factories online, and emailing them from
our personal Gmail accounts. Because we had never
done this before, you know, there were all these
really basic questions about how a federal procurement
operation should work
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No industry relationships,
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no experience working
in supply chain.
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So we started cold-emailing
people we knew
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who had business relationships
in China,
00:00:10.041 --> 00:00:12.312
looking for factories online,
00:00:12.344 --> 00:00:16.382
and emailing them from
our personal Gmail accounts.
00:00:16.415 --> 00:00:18.451
Because we had never
done this before,
00:00:18.485 --> 00:00:20.353
you know, there were all these
really basic questions
00:00:20.387 --> 00:00:23.189
about how a federal procurement
operation should work.
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An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.
