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For the curious. I tried to get data out of a wine wholesaler in California once about their supply chain (we had an interesting application for a product to discuss). Turns out even if they wanted to they couldn't get the data we needed because it would mean go back through years of paper records in an offsite storage facility. This industry could very much use some love.

>>iandan+(OP)
It's a remarkable industry to be a part of. We work with wholesalers of all sizes (we have 8 of the top 10 nationally as customers, along with hundreds of very small business that run on quickbooks or excel). A major part of our company and engineering challenge is integrating with the backend systems at all of those companies, grabbing whatever information they can send on a recurring basis, and standardizing it on one schema. We've produced the most complete dataset of what's available for purchase wholesale for any licensed establishment in the U.S. (at least in the 40 states we operate in, we have to go state-by-state due to the regulations).

Right now we're looking for mid-senior (at a minimum able to write idiomatic full-stack rails/JS code from the start) people to help build more software on top of the dataset, but it's the dataset that's the core of everything we do. One definition of enterprise software is software where the data will outlive the applications that lay on top of it, and we definitely fit that bill.