Dan Florness, CEO of Fastenal

Podcast: Real Leadership · real-leadership

Opublikowano: 2026-07-07

How do you lead an organization you can’t control? Dan Florness has spent 30 years answering that question at Fastenal and the last 11 as CEO of what is now a $9 billion industrial distributor operating in 26 countries. He joined as CFO in 1996, when the company’s run rate was about $250 million. Today, Fastenal does $37 million in revenue a day. It takes about a week to match a full year of the business Dan joined. But Dan never fit the CFO archetype. He ran a manufacturing division, dug into supply chain and product development, and supported national acco...