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Shippo spent eight to nine years closing its FedEx partnership
“Just this year, we got our, like, we got FedEx to agree to this kind of account structure. So it's really, it's literally taken us like eight to nine years with certain shipping providers to get them comfortable with that.”
Behrens Wu: Shippo was rejected by YC before joining 500 Startups
“We did get into like an accelerator at some point, like we were rejected by YC and then got into 500 startups.”
Albert Wenger passed on Shippo's seed before leading its Series A
“I met one investor during our seed round, Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures, who wouldn't invest at that point in time, but we really, like, hit it off, and he's also from Germany, and we, like, just decided to stay in touch, and I think it was more of …”