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Petersen: Remote US workers will lose jobs to offshore talent arbitrage
“By the way, I think remote work can really work, but it's not going to benefit the people who think like, it's not going to be people making 250,000 dollars a year hanging out in Jackson Hole. It's going to be geniuses in the developing world Making, you know,…”
Petersen: Selling SaaS to tech companies will become the toughest market
“I think selling SaaS to tech companies is gonna be the toughest, because we can build stuff for ourselves.”
Petersen: AI agents will enable full end-to-end logistics automation at Flexport
“But agents can go all the way. Like, we think we can automate the full end to end.”
Petersen: AI providers might cut off customer APIs to train superintelligence
“There's a realistic scenario that they decide the compute that they have is more valuable for training super intelligence than it is for letting customers use it. And they stop, you know, just cut us off.”
Petersen: Flexport will never need to raise capital again
“I don't need to raise any money ever again.”
Petersen: Flexport expects to reach break-even this year
“I think this year we're gonna get to basically break even.”
Petersen: Flexport aims for 30% annual revenue growth for 10 years
“And I think we'll do 600. I mean, the goal is to keep going 30% every year for 10 years.”
Petersen: Flexport will reach profitability by end of 2024
“We've got a roadmap to get the company profitable by next year, by the end of next year without raising prices for our customers.”
Petersen: Double-digit interest rates would trigger US debt-inflation spiral
“If they do, the United States government's gonna be in a lot of trouble. We can't pay our debt of 10% interest. They have to keep printing money, and then you have an inflationary cycle, which then makes interest rates go even higher.”
Petersen: AI will create significantly more jobs than it destroys
“Like AI is going to create way more jobs than it destroys.”
Petersen: Flexport will IPO in a couple of years after hitting a few hundred million EBIT
“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.”
Petersen: Flexport will spend $20M annually on LLMs within five years
“Yeah, probably. I mean, I don't know about Anthropic, but on LLMs.”
Petersen: Flexport headcount will stay flat as AI replaces manual operations
“It might be about the same. We're hiring a lot of salespeople and we're expanding a lot in new markets, but I think you're going to see like a shift from people that today do operations, kind of manual work that I was describing earlier into, okay, you've got …”
Petersen: Flexport will push employees to move back to San Francisco
“So I'm like pushing, I'm probably, Gonna start pushing more of our employees like, hey, you should come move back to San Francisco.”
Petersen: Flexport will focus engineering on replacing labor, not SaaS
“I don't want to dedicate that much of our engineering resources to replacing SaaS. Like I want to build, I want to replace work, like expensive labor, and I want to build our product and make it way better. So I don't, I want to, like, focus on our core busine…”
Petersen: Flexport on track to deliver 33M consumer packages in 2023
“Flexport delivered thirty-three million packages to consumers' homes. That's what we're on track to do this year.”
Petersen: Future trade will remain globalized rather than nationalized
“I think it'll be globalized trade.”