One Spreadsheet in Iowa Just Shook the World’s Wheat Supply—and Breakfast May Never Recover
Tyler Smith, a 29-year-old supply-chain analyst from Des Moines, woke up last Tuesday convinced he was, in fact, the epicenter of the global economy. The rest of the planet, still rubbing sleep from its eyes, did not immediately concur. Yet within 48 hours Tyler’s spreadsheet—an unassuming .xlsx file titled “FinalFinal_V6(Really).xlsx”—had ricocheted from a Midwestern laptop…