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▶ 46:16 Jason Lemkin It's not, listen, I do think you helped at Flexport when they went through some times that was high value that exists. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:40 Sam Blond Ben has been at Flexport for the last eight years. 3 times in the scene
▶ 0:45 Sam Blond Um, five and a half of those years as CRO, one and a half of those years as chief customer officer, another one and a half of those years leading the Flexport fund.
▶ 2:48 Sam Blond You with Flexport that we just talked about me with both Zenefits and Brex. 7 times in the scene
▶ 15:31 Sam Blond Uh, the things that I should be focused on when finding the next flex for, and so I'd love to hear some of the sort of like characteristics that you describe, um, in, in high, hyper growth, potentially next flex for super successful… 8 times in the scene
▶ 26:01 Sam Blond You soon to be in that category with your Flexport Fund.
▶ 28:37 Sam Blond You are going to leave this business ready to become Julie Harris or, you know, the next VP of sales or CRO at the next, uh, Flexport.
▶ 30:09 Ben Braverman But, you know, we found we had incredible retention at Flexport when we paired career progression with meaningful equity grants when people progressed in their careers. 6 times in the scene
▶ 35:27 Sam Blond Like, you know, that was a real blessing for Flexport that, uh, the hottest topic of, um, the, the month or, or maybe even year was this concept of like supply chain and, uh, shipping being backed up and the prices of it. 2 times in the scene
▶ 40:36 Ben Braverman This is, this is exactly what we did at Flexport. 2 times in the scene

▶ 18:08 Sam Blond There's going to be, uh, other incredibly successful businesses like Flexport and Deal, um, and more.

▶ 0:03 Jason Lemkin I am here with one of our good friends and my good friends, for me, since almost inception in Sastr, and for you guys since the earliest days of Sastr, Sam Blond, um, now Chief Sales Officer at Brex, uh, one of the great innovators in, in…

▶ 0:46 Ryan Petersen And that's just to give you a sense of the industry that we work in at Flexport. 3 times in the scene
▶ 2:48 Ryan Petersen And because during that time I was guilty of what Paul Graham, who's the founder of Y Combinator, Flexport's first investor, he calls this schlep blindness. 2 times in the scene
▶ 7:17 Ryan Petersen Uh, over the last, and, and so the, what I want to talk to you today is really about how we did this. 4 times in the scene
▶ 9:31 Ryan Petersen And so what Flexport's done is build user interfaces. 2 times in the scene
▶ 10:26 Ryan Petersen If I had whiteboarded every single complexity of Flexport's current structure, our data model, our organization design, if I knew all that stuff when I started and I wrote it on the whiteboard, you would think I was John Nash in a…
▶ 11:47 Ryan Petersen But tech is not enough, and I think that's what, where Flexport is a little bit different than most of the companies at this conference, because this is real world stuff. 4 times in the scene
▶ 18:42 Ryan Petersen The, the other, the big trend that we're building towards at Flexport and building for that we want, how do we help our customers really grow?

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