Amazon’s ex-retail boss Dave Clark launches new supply chain startup [Video]

Dave Clark, Amazon‘s former CEO of global consumer, who briefly helmed logistics company Flexport, is returning to the startup world.

Clark on Tuesday launched a new venture, called Auger, which aims to help companies and governments combine the mishmash of “Franken-software” overseeing their supply chains into a single platform.

“At Flexport, I got to see all of these companies in the middle, like the Nikes or Lululemons, and I was amazed at how much of a struggle it is, and how much they still use Excel or Smartsheet or Tableau or something to bring all this disparate data together in such a way that they can do something,” Clark said in an interview. “A shocking amount of supply chain still runs on Excel.”

Clark’s third act follows a short but tumultuous stint at Flexport. Last September, Clark abruptly resignedas CEO of Flexport, allowing for the return of its founder Ryan Petersen. Petersen …