Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on "going big" with a $1B funding round, pandemic lessons | E1169

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Show notes:
0:00 Start
0:49 Jason on the “Tahoe Episodes” & reasons for hope
3:16 Jason intros Ryan Petersen & he explains Flexport’s origins & typical transaction process
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14:41 Ryan’s typing speed, QWERTY origins
18:35 Ryan explains how Flexport makes money, who its main customers are, how shipping payments typically go down & why old maritime law repels banks from financing shippers
26:40 LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job free at / twist
28:15 At-scale mistakes leaving larger footprints, investors relations as an at-scale company
34:39 Ryan on his stellar investors, going big by raising $700M from SoftBank in a $1B round
38:43 Checkout.com - Learn more at checkout.com/twist
40:09 Scaling to 2000 employees
43:54 Lessons from working in shipping, which was greatly impacted by the pandemic, how Flexport onboarded hospitals to help source PPE
52:26 How US shipping infrastructure reacted to the pandemic
56:12 Ryan’s perspective on our working relationship with China, other up and coming countries
1:04:27 IPO discussion
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Hi JCal, what happened to the previous episode with Ryan? That was phenomenal too. I can't find it anywhere?

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this was his first appearance!

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Massive respect to Ryan. What a maverick kicking the doors in on shipping and absolutely killing it. Super impressed and also with flexport.org showing the world how to get shit done in the biggest way. And of course, Jason is the best of the best.