Full video: Chieh Huang, CEO of Boxed, from Code Commerce

In 2013, Chieh Huang was “sitting in central Jersey ... telling friends and family, telling the in-laws, what I do for a living is we sell toilet paper out of a garage.”

Now, though, Huang’s endeavor to sell consumers the products they need in bulk — a company called Boxed — has “one of the most advanced fulfillment centers in the world,” he said onstage at Code Commerce in New York City.

Watch the full video, including the story behind Boxed and some of its employee initiatives, here:

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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