Flexport, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Flexport comes up
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
Why Founders Shouldn't Think Like Investors · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:27 Dalton Caldwell Well, I would compare it to, you know, I think a lot of people would love to be Ryan from Flexport where he was buying a seven 47.
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:19 Jared Friedman Nuvo Cargo is basically Flexport for Latin America. 2 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:02 Craig Cannon Uh, let's start with a brief explanation of what Flexport is because many people might not know what a freight forwarder is. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34 Ryan Petersen Yeah, so probably about 10% of Flexport shipments get delivered to an Amazon warehouse.
- ▶ 7:50 Ryan Petersen Which is actually kind of what Flexport's becoming. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 Ryan Petersen So I think there's a, I see a big part of flex sports role is enabling, empowering all the other
- ▶ 12:33 Craig Cannon Are you seeing more of that on Flexport? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:45 Ryan Petersen Um, the, the earliest customers for Flexport we got via Google AdWords and SEO and just signups and people just finding us on the internet, signing up for the service. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:28 Ryan Petersen And so for in the evolutionary tree of Flexport, he kind of goes back to import genius.com, which is this data service for global trade. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:13 Ryan Petersen Is well, what we look for, we, we like Flexport has my, my COO, my business partner calls it, um, insecure overachievers is our, is our profile. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Ryan Petersen The, the, the core challenges of Flexport and they never go away today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:13 Ryan Petersen On Flexport's perspective, I think one, we, we've got to be the best, and I think we are in responding to that because we have a database within five minutes and one SQL query, we're able to tell every customer exactly who, who's affected,…
- ▶ 39:12 Ryan Petersen So Flexport got to two hundred million dollars in revenue without having a marketing team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:38 Craig Cannon And so cause you guys still compared to like the biggest freight forwarders, what's your relative size? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:15 Ryan Petersen Cause there was, I'm always recruiting founders and if, if great, we've had a few great people leave Flexport, not too many. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:17 Craig Cannon Well, Flexport, similarly, like, when you were getting started, like, you had the cash around to hire developers. 3 times in the scene
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:52 Ryan Petersen It's called Flexport. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:10 Paul Graham Well, you're not doing the clearing, though. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:36 Ryan Petersen It's a web app. 6 times in the scene