Phillip Akhzar is the Founder and CEO of Arka, a completely environmentally sustainable API that allows users to fully customize their brand's packaging designs. Phillip has over 16 years of experience in packaging and supply chain logistics and hosted a course with Shopify on packaging and shipping your products sustainably. From Boeing Aerospace to Silicon Valley startups like iCracked, Philip has brought his core competency at the biggest companies to businesses just getting their start.

On this episode, Phillip and I discuss what it takes to run a totally sustainable operation, how Arka can source all of their products locally in the United States, the impact his company has on the logistics industry, and much more.