Founders in Full

Why Every Busy Family Needs a Logistics Platform | Zoya Lehrer, Orgo

Dan Ritzke Season 2 Episode 3

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Zoya Lehrer, Founder and CEO of Orgo, shares the story behind building a logistics platform designed to help busy families better manage the hidden complexity of everyday life.

After spending more than 20 years leading large enterprise technology initiatives in banking, fintech, and SaaS, Zoya never imagined becoming a founder. But as the parent of three young athletes, she found herself constantly asking the same question: Why is managing family logistics so much harder than managing complex enterprise systems?

That realization led her to build Orgo—a platform that reimagines the family calendar by showing time the way families actually experience it, with preparation time, travel, carpools, and everything else that traditional calendars leave out.

In this conversation, we explore:
✅ Why Zoya left a successful 20-year career in enterprise technology to start Orgo
✅ The hidden mental load and logistical challenges facing active families
✅ The concept of "time literacy" and why our calendars often fail us
✅ How lived experience helped shape Orgo's product and founder journey
✅ Why solving a specific problem for a specific audience was critical in the early days
✅ The challenges of educating customers when you're creating an entirely new product category

Zoya's story is a great reminder that some of the best startups aren't created by chasing trends—they're built by someone who experiences a frustrating problem every single day and decides there has to be a better way.

👉 Learn more about Orgo: https://orgohq.com/

👉 Connect with Zoya on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoyalehrer/

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