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Ryan Petersen

12 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2021 by Shaan Puri · said 18 times in 5 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sam Parr (7), Shaan Puri (6), Sheel Mohnot (4), Furqan Rydhan (1)

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Jun 23, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Puri: Container Ships Make $50M Profit Per Asia Trip, Lose $1M/Day Idle
“One trip round trip from Asia on a, on one of these shipping boats is fifty million of profit. So every, every day that they're sitting out, you know, sitting, sitting idle and it's a 30 day trip. And so, you know, so that's about a million dollars per day per…”
Shaan Puri Jun 23, 2021 ▶ 12:30 How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works | My First Million #193
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Insight
Petersen: Learning foreign languages in-country offers poor financial ROI due to AI
“I think learning a foreign language in that country is extremely, it's not a good ROI from like, you probably won't make any money off of this, especially now with chat GPT.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 22:38 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024
Disclosure
Ryan Petersen dined at Charlie Munger's house seven or eight times.
“I had dinner at his house seven or eight times before he passed. I went to his 99th birthday party last year, actually.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 14:09 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024
Disclosure
Petersen: Flexport founders ran bootstrapped companies for 10 years before VC
“We raised VC after 10 years of doing companies without.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 50:08 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Insight
Petersen: Top classroom negotiators struggle in real-world repeated business games
“You can track the people who are the best negotiators in a classroom environment or not the most successful because they're very good at extracting too much in a one-off negotiation, but that's not how life works. In life, there's repeat games. Like you gotta …”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 31:39 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Opinion
Petersen: Studies claiming income plateaus happiness cannot be replicated
“I don't believe these studies that say like, oh, like, you know, you stop. ... Stop improving your life at a certain point. I'm certain that that can't be replicated. You know, most, most of these psychology studies turn out to be not, there's a replication cr…”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 25:30 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Opinion
Petersen: Tech media unfairly targets startup founders instead of incumbent mega-corporations
“All reporters play a very important function of like holding the powerful accountable, but like founders, you're not that power, but we're kind of suffering through like, you know, we're up against some very powerful forces in the world. Like we feel like we'r…”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 48:05 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Petersen: Office phone booth venture reached $50M in sales
“So we was doing like fifty million dollars in sales.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 54:44 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Petersen: Import Genius Still Generates Millions in EBITDA
“Still am. Still am. It's still a good business.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 1:28 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Insight
Petersen: Heavy usage of a terrible product proves strong underlying demand
“If the product's this bad and yet everybody wants to use it, there's like something here.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 53:56 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Petersen: Office phone booths cost $1K to make and sell for $3K
“I think we sold them for like three grand, but you can make a phone booth for a thousand bucks.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 55:15 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
Nov 11, 2024
Disclosure
Ryan Petersen scored $10,000 in Uber credits via Google AdWords arbitrage.
“I got like 10,000 dollars in Uber credits by doing that.”
Ryan Petersen Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 51:00 Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
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