Petersen: Flexport Would Have Succeeded Without Investor Operational Support
Ryan Petersen · 20VC: Flexport's Ryan Petersen on Why Investor Relations Are Overrated, Why Boards Have To Be Rethought & Why MBAs Do Not Make Bad Entrepreneurs · Dec 2, 2016 · at 18:22
Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport, evaluates the actual impact of venture capital investor assistance relative to the money provided.
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“Most of them have been amazing, like connecting, making connections and stuff, but we would have pretty much had the same company without any given thing that any of them did besides give us lots of money.”
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