Ryan Petersen
@typesfast
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Founder of Flexport: Global logistics, simplified.
USA
Joined October 2011
My history of global trade podcast appearance with @whatifalthist dropped today on @history_102
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Flexport’s competitors have started to meme and it went about how you’d expect.
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Wait founders are charging their coffee orders to their company cards? Flexport owes me like a million dollars
Turns out SF’s founders have a type ☕️ If you’ve launched a startup in the city, odds are you’ve launched a few ideas from one of these spots Revealing… the top 5 local coffee shops where founders caffeinate, according to Mercury card spend data ⤵️
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Logistics is a multi-trillion-dollar industry that quietly powers the entire global economy — and it's shockingly manual. Ryan Petersen (@typesfast), founder & CEO of Flexport, joins the @LightconePod to break down how AI is finally touching the physical world: making shipping
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Why does JSX always have 5 airplanes sitting around at every gate?
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EU banning de minimis shipments in early 2026. Trade wars entering mimetic contagion phase.
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Shooting my shot cold texting the CEO of Starbucks (never met him) to convince him to remove the password on the WiFi in their stores. If this works I’m gonna run for President.
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Waymo has SFO encircled worse than the Germans at the battle of Stalingrad. When do we move in for the final assault? Lets do it @DanielLurie!
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Wells Fargo and American Express both started as freight forwarders...
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Rippling finally got their logo on the ugliest building in the city. Good job @parkerconrad
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You can ship a 40 foot container from Belgium to China for $50 and people think capitalism is failing.
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Favorite part was definitely Rudyard's claim that some people refer to the Han Dynasty as "Handy Nasty" Sadly no @ludwignvermises for this one.
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Enjoy the whole episode here. Please watch to the end, like and subscribe to juice the youtube algorithm :) https://t.co/a80XqL1oT5
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If you work for a company that imports containers into the US please help me out by asking your logistics team to check at link below if Flexport ocean rates are competitive with what you’re paying now? 1) I need to keep my team honest and 2) you can keep your freight
flexport.com
Flexport provides the best rates for air and ocean freight
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Today’s Supreme Court arguments about the legality of the tariffs did not go well for the Trump administration.
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Cluely should’ve pivoted to an AI lie detector bot. Invite it to your video calls and it adds a bigger and bigger Pinocchio nose to other participants faces.
Jordi: The problem with Cluely's move into AI notetaking is that it's a half-pivot. A half-pivot is always dangerous. They built a very controversial brand, very quickly. And now they need to leverage it for a pivot into a category that's squarely at odds with that brand.
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Vietnam projecting double digit GDP growth this year. Guess it just depends what kind of communism Mamdani has in mind here.
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1/ Founder & CEO @typesfast returned to the @ProfGPod to discuss Supreme Court hearing on Trump administration’s tariffs, how ecommerce brands are navigating a post-de-minimis trade landscape, and tariff impacts on consumer prices and freight movements.
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Sequoia passed on Flexport so many times that I don’t really care who runs the place tbh.
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