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Petersen: Flexport grew engineering to 1,300 before laying off half the team
“We let go of a lot of amazing people a few weeks ago. We let go of about half of our engineering team. We know we grew our engineering team this year from 450 software team members, product and engineering team members to 1300.”
Flexport Operated Without a Board of Directors Until Raising $30 Million
“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.”
Petersen: Flexport cut 27% of costs in his first five weeks back
“We cut 27% of our costs already in my first five weeks.”
Petersen: Flexport generated over $2B in revenue last year
“My first Excel my first and only financial model that I made for myself for the business got to one million of revenue, right? Like, we did over two billion last year, so.”
Stephens: Flexport Was First Major Founders Fund Check in 2014
“The first big check that I wrote at Founders Fund was Flexport. And no one was thinking about Supply chain logistics in 2014.”
Flexport's $65M Series B Was Raised Almost Entirely From Insider Investors
“Our series B was Done almost entirely by insiders, by people who had been in the series A and even, and a lot of the money came from people who were in our seed round.”
Matt Mochary's coaching client list includes partners at Benchmark, Sequoia, and Kleiner
“On the VC side, Matt has worked with the likes of Peter Fenton at Benchmark, Several Sequoia partners, Hemond at GC, and Mamoon at Kleiner, to name a few. As for founders, Matt's worked with the founders of Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Reddit, Flexport, and many mor…”