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When Success Means Life or Death: Ryan Rusnak’s Journey Building Airspace

When Success Means Life or Death: Ryan Rusnak’s Journey Building Airspace

Chaos To Clarity

October 17, 202550m 16s

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Show Notes

In this episode of Chaos to Clarity, host Eric Weiss sits down with Ryan Rusnak, Co-Founder and CTO of Airspace, one of San Diego’s fastest-growing logistics tech companies.

Ryan shares how Airspace built a $100M business around time-critical shipping, moving everything from organs for transplant to parts for grounded airplanes. He reveals how the team uses AI and machine learning to optimize routing in real time—saving lives, money, and minutes.

This episode dives into:

  • The story behind Airspace and its life-saving logistics technology
  • How to build a tech-enabled logistics startup from zero to scale
  • Why trust and delegation are essential for growing your engineering team
  • Lessons in leadership, hiring, and managing growth from startup to global scale
  • The role of AI and neural networks in transforming traditional industries

Whether you’re a startup founder, CTO, or just fascinated by the intersection of AI and logistics, this conversation will inspire you to think bigger about what technology can achieve when the stakes are real.

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Topics

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