Petersen: Flexport will IPO in a couple of years after hitting a few hundred million EBIT
Ryan Petersen · Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 20, 2026 · at 12:01
Ryan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of logistics platform Flexport. He discusses Flexport's criteria and timeline for going public.
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“I'd like to be a nicely profitable, making a few hundred million of EBIT and then we'll go public. So it could happen in a couple of years. It should, like the way that things are going right now, we should be able to get there.”
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