Decoder with Nilay Patel · Monday, July 27, 2026
Altana creates a "shared map of the world" for managing trade, connecting government agencies, logistics providers, and companies. Evan Smith described this system as a "Google Maps for the supply chain" to improve collaboration and data transparency.
“Altana connects the public and private sectors into a network for managing trade. So, it's, uh, it's a shared map of the world, an underpinning. So everyone sees the same supply chain network, the same set of facts.”
“And then transacting with each other to manage trade. And increasingly, and this is where the, the server acquisition we were just speaking to, comes in.”