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Flexport achieved in five years the revenue Expeditors reached in fifteen
“In five years, we did, it took them their first 15 years to get to our revenue number”
Braverman: Paul Graham identified Flexport as breakout before official YC acceptance
“Paul Graham had already identified Ryan and Flexport as a breakout from YC before he went into YC, and you know that because he got called on stage at startup school by Paul before he was officially accepted into YC.”
43 US government agencies regulate imported products
“With, there are 43 government agencies in the United States alone that take an interest and regulate imported products.”
Ocean freight still relies on physical paper flown across oceans
“When you ship an ocean container across the world, and pretty much look around every single thing that you see got here by ocean container, when you ship one of these things across the world, there's actually a piece of paper that travels in parallel. And that…”