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DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12:42 Harry Stebbings Ryan Peterson at Flexport said, kind of jokingly, obviously, um, work from home is white collar fraud. 2 times in the scene

How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:33 Harry Stebbings Cause we have the founder mode and the, you know, I love Ryan at Flexport, but like that I'm so in the weeds and I love him for it. 2 times in the scene

Zach Perret: Why ‘Founder Mode’ is the Most Dangerous Blog Post for Founders | E1215 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 20:14 Harry Stebbings And you have people like, uh, Ryan Peterson at Flexport, who is a phenomenal CEO, and you who are a phenomenal CEO, but, but not everyone is Ryan or Zach. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:57 Harry Stebbings No, I, I tend to get you, uh, Ryan and Flexport told me very wisely, I think he said, velocity is the most important thing.

Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:40 Delian Asparouhov Cognition, you know, sort of AI founders that, you know, crushed it at IOI to, you know, people that, you know, did really well in, you know, sort of college athletics, um, to, you know, Ryan Peterson, you know, sort of running his, you…

Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 8, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:03:57 Harry Stebbings I always remember Ryan at Flettersport said to me, like, it's not speed, uh, it's velocity, which is speed in a given direction. 3 times in the scene

Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 3, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 15:00 Trae Stephens Uh, Ryan shows up and he's kind of this like kooky guy that lived in China and like made a bunch of money on arbitrage in pro like pricing or arbitrage and bath fittings and for like four wheelers, uh, shipping them from China to the… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:57 Harry Stebbings and you are partners, and you say, Harry, Flexport, Ryan's fucking amazing.
  • ▶ 44:27 Trae Stephens Like I needed Ryan to like convince me of the, the timing to the market.

Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:39 Harry Stebbings Like, I, I, again, I'm not, I'm not gonna draw a name, but if you think about, like, Ryan Peterson doing Ryan Peterson Capital, I think that probably could.

Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 17, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings I heard so many great things from many different people, from Ryan Peterson to your friend Ollie beforehand, so thank you so much for joining me today.
  • ▶ 35:48 Dave Clark Uh, Toby knows Ryan because they invested in our round, uh, in early 22, uh, and so Ryan and Toby have a relationship, 3 times in the scene

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 3, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 24:28 Harry Stebbings If you think about, say, um, I don't know, say, take COVID, and think about how shipping and delivery changes in the world of COVID, you have the ability now to call up Ryan at Flexport, or the CEO of UPS, or you name any of the big… 3 times in the scene

David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 21, 2022 · 2 mentions

Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 22, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:51 Wesley Chan But the truly visionary founders, Larry and Sergey, Cliff and Mel at Canva, you know, Brian Peterson at Flexport, they have a hundred year plans.

Sheel Mohnot: Lessons from Investing in Flexport and Missing on Robinhood | 20VC #917 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 15, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 45:49 Sheel Mohnot Yeah, I think the most, um, the most compelling first pitch I had was Ryan Peterson at Flexport. 4 times in the scene

20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels Oct 18, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 10:04 Roy Bahat So the first time we met Ryan Peterson from Flexport, I was at the time still the chairman of the company that I'd co-founded, which was a hardware company. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:07 Harry Stebbings You said that about Ryan Peterson though. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:57 Harry Stebbings And I think we're seeing this at Ryan at Flexport, this generation of really conscious leadership driven people who are fundamentally vulnerable, fundamentally willing to be open and actually present a much more human side of leadership…

20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive Apr 12, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, Henry's raised over a hundred and forty seven million in funding from some of the very best in the business, including USV, Spark, K-Nine Ventures, and Meritech, and then also leading founders, including Flexport's Ryan Peterson,…

20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals Apr 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to say a huge thank you to YC's Daniel Gross, Alexis Ohanian, Alex Bangash, and Ryan Peterson for some fantastic questions and suggestions today.

20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive Jul 20, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:28 Harry Stebbings No, I couldn't agree with you more on logistics, and Ryan at Flexport from your portfolio is a personal favorite of mine, but I do want to discuss, you mentioned the angel investments there, and it's easy to look at your angel portfolio…

20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC Jan 17, 2018 · 1 mention

20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures Apr 19, 2017 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 21:08 Leo Polovets And so the founder was really compelling for a couple of reasons. 8 times in the scene

20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round Mar 20, 2017 · 1 mention

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 Nov 30, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.
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