Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on "going big" with a $1B funding round, pandemic lessons | E1169
发布时间 2021-02-03 19:33:06 来源
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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 https://www.linkedin.com/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
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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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