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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 10:16 Ryan Petersen Um, and so he, he did Y Combinator for that. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:04 Ryan Petersen Um, so it was when we got the license from CBP that I left, stepped down, and started Flexport, and that was about six months before YC started. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:05 Ryan Petersen And then it also, I guess that kind of understates like YC, if you're one of the top companies, I think it's very important to be a top company if you're going to do Y Combinator. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:37 Ryan Petersen One is we started out, when we went through Y Combinator, Flexport was just a customs brokerage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:32 Ryan Petersen We did YC in 2014, and in 2016, we took those cheap prices and just passed them through to customers, and it led to crazy growth for us.
- ▶ 53:13 Ryan Petersen He was pissed because he thought I should go be a partner at Y Combinator instead of Founders Fund first off, but I went for a walk with him when he came back to Palo Alto one time, and he, um, he asked me why he did it, why I stepped…
- ▶ 1:28:58 Ryan Petersen Munger has this really wonderful essay, which I actually discovered on the Y Combinator website, um, called The Art of Worldly Wisdom, or something to that effect.