Ryan Petersen
Ryan Petersen is an American businessman and the founder and CEO of Flexport, a technology-driven freight forwarding and supply chain management company. He founded Flexport in 2013 to modernize global logistics through software and data analytics. He is best known for his public commentary on supply chain disruptions, including proposals during the 2021 shipping crisis at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach that drew attention from state officials.
“Ryan Peterson... said Google will be spending 20% of this year's military budget in CapEx.”
Source→“We've got about probably like a hundred core workflows that are costly that we're building AI agents for right now and like five of them are live and working and saving us money and 95 that are under development.”
Source→“He led the round of a billion yeah and he was like whatever the price of freight is you just be 10% cheaper than everybody”
Source→“I say it's white collar fraud. I have a three year old and a five year old. The idea that I could do any work at my house is like a total fantasy.”
Source→“Parker, Zenefits, a16z they fired him... Rippling. I think actually it's a great thesis around like founders who have been wronged.”
Source→“The associate WhatsApp groups are so pernicious where if you meet me and I don't think you're great I promise you they put you in the weekly roundup which they send out because they're exchanging currency... They're cross firm.”
Source→“I told him everything it's like here's how I screwed this up... best offer I got was 275 but the firm wants board control so if you'll just do it without taking the control of the board you guys can have it and Peter just offered 300 instead of 275.”
Source→“He's very connected too like he was able during the meeting to call Foxconn, get him on the phone, be like hey what do you think of this thing.”
Source→“Sam introduced me and... a few weeks later he emailed asking if he could invest.”
Source→“I love Keith Rabois who says that actually he likes to sense check his deals with friends. And if they don't think that his deal is stupid or crazy, he's not doing his job.”
Source→“Brian Chesky says don't ever take the highest price. Don't ever. That I disagree with.”
Source→“Cruise was in my batch. Why? I don't know it's just like it was too crazy like he was just like throwing this camera set up on the roof of his Honda Civic.”
Source→“I think I'm going Anthropic... the enterprise business seems great and the team... there's a lot of value of like this cohesive team that's been together forever.”
Source→“The difference between talking about freight versus talking about the global supply chain is completely collapsing during COVID and we're all going to starve to death, right? And then therefore he's the guy who literally goes in 60 minutes to explain to the world that in fact yes we all are about to starve to death.”
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