freight forwarding

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 30, 2018 by Ryan Petersen · across every show →

Everything said about freight forwarding, oldest first

Aug 30, 2018 neutral
Insight
Petersen: No single company is large enough to own end-to-end freight
“In the freight world, because of the size, there's no company big enough to keep it in their own network from door to door. You would actually have to be the biggest company in the world by far.”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 1:07 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
Aug 30, 2018 neutral
Assertion Supported
Petersen: Academic research ranked freight forwarding as most susceptible to automation
“There's a great paper that I read about industries that are most susceptible to automation. And freight forwarding was the number one on the list. It was like, 99% of the work should be, that would be better done by software in this, like, academic paper.”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 47:09 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
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