Ryan Petersen

12 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 26, 2013 by Ryan Petersen · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Oct 26, 2013 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Petersen: Flexport expects roughly 75% gross margins per clearance
“The gross margin should be about 75%.”
Ryan Petersen Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 26:33 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Oct 26, 2013
Disclosure
Petersen: Prior startup aggregated 300M U.S. shipping manifests for subscription sales
“Every time you import a product into the U.S., it's public record, that product, and my last company actually sells that data. We aggregate every time you import something. We've collected three hundred million of those shipping manifests and sell subscription…”
Ryan Petersen Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 25:01 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Oct 26, 2013
Disclosure
Petersen: Flexport employs licensed customs brokers rather than removing humans
“We're not removing the human elements, so we're pairing you with a licensed customs worker. We have customs workers on staff, and it's more of a communications tool to, like, enable it.”
Ryan Petersen Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 21:49 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Oct 26, 2013 bullish
Insight
Petersen: Customs brokerage provides full supply chain visibility to upsell logistics
“The brokerage is just the way that we enter the much larger logistics space, because once I'm your customs broker, I know everything about your supply chain.”
Ryan Petersen Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 27:12 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Oct 26, 2013
Assertion Supported
Petersen: Importing goods can require filing up to 120 different forms
“Based on what the product is, there could be, like, a 120 different forms you have to file, so we have to take the, what the product is, determine which forms are needed, fill those out for the, ah, customer, file them electronically with the government.”
Ryan Petersen Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 20:39 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Oct 26, 2013 bullish
Disclosure
Petersen: Flexport has three active importing customers
“Yeah, we have three customers right now .”
Ryan Petersen Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 22:42 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Oct 26, 2013 neutral
Assertion Supported
Petersen: US customs rules blocked centralized software clearance before 2007
“And actually until recently it wasn't possible to clear shipment except at your local port. So if you built a software startup to do this, you could only help people importing into the port of Oakland, unless you had an office in every port. In 2007.”
Ryan Petersen Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 23:56 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Aug 30, 2018
Disclosure
Flexport took five years to generate its first dollar of revenue
“Now it took five years from the first time I had the idea to the first dollar of revenue was five years, four years of which it was just me and no other employees.”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 32:05 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
Aug 30, 2018 bullish
Disclosure
Petersen sold his Amazon stock right before it 4x'd to buy a house
“I sold my Amazon stock two years ago when I bought a house, and I literally, I was crying out. Maybe not literally, but I was like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever done. Why am I selling this stock? My house is up 10%, and my Amazon, Amazon's up like four …”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 11:21 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
Aug 30, 2018 negative
Insight
Business school is likely not worth $140,000 in student debt
“I think if you, having a business school degree has helped me immensely in understanding the principles of accounting and revenue recognition and all, you know, like real basic fundamentals, finance cap tables, discount rating, discounted cash flow. These are …”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 13:48 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
Aug 30, 2018
Assertion Supported
Petersen: Imported Electric Scooters 15 Years Before the Modern Craze
“The scooter mania that's happening now is so fascinating for me because 15 years ago, my brother and I and our other business partner, Michael Kenko, we were importing electric scooters, almost the same form factor, similar price point.”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 3:36 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
Aug 30, 2018 positive
Opinion
Petersen: Flexport could only have been founded in Silicon Valley
“I think we, Flexport could only be founded in Silicon Valley. We'll see if that's true in 10 years from now, but I think that's still true today.”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 22:23 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
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