Flexport, every mention
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every year 2016 anyone Harry Stebbings 99Ryan Petersen 72Roy Bahat 7Dave Clark 7Wesley Chan 3Trae Stephens 2Sheel Mohnot 2Leo Polovets 2Garry Tan 2Fabrice Grinda 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Flexport comes up
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now, Gary's portfolio includes the likes of previous guests, Tilt, Eero, Flexport, LendUp, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 10:08 Garry Tan And we see it with things like Flexport or one of our favorite companies is Bannerman. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Now, Ryan is the founder and CEO of Flexport, the freight forwarder for the internet age, and Flexport recently raised a phenomenal sixty-five million dollar Series B from the likes of Founders Fund, First Round, Felicis, Bloomberg Beta,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings However, it's now time for me to shut up and hand over to the main man, Ryan Peterson, founder and CEO at Flexport.
- ▶ 2:50 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get started today by discussing a bit about you and how you came to found the incredibly hot Flexport and a quick bio of you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Ryan Petersen Like too many MBAs show up at Flexport and are like, yeah, I want to be on the executive committee. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:59 Ryan Petersen I've never had any trouble raising money for Flexport though.
- ▶ 12:10 Ryan Petersen Uh, when you get to later stage, especially, so we just raised a few weeks ago, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 Ryan Petersen I don't think there's an investor who's like had this life changing life career or like company trajectory altering effect on Flexport, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:15 Ryan Petersen Yeah, I mean, you know, we didn't have a board at Flexboard until we'd raised thirty million dollars and just created the board after the Series B when we raised another 65. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:35 Ryan Petersen Well, the Flexport blog, by the way, is my favorite blog, because I write most of the posts. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 25:53 Harry Stebbings Thank you so much, as always, and we look very forward to bringing you Friday's episode with Ryan Peterson, founder and CEO at Flexport.
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Flexport and Luma, just to name a few.