Flexport's Ryan Petersen: "Plan for the unimaginable"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Flexport's Ryan Petersen: "Plan for the unimaginable"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:40:44
• Published: 2020-08-07 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Petersen, founder of Flexport, to talk about being a canary in the coalmine (3:00), where the economy is recovering (5:00), what happens when planes stop flying (6:30), how he got involved in PPE shipping (9:20), working with the NHS (13:00), starting out in his twenties importing Chinese motorcycles (14:30), learning that it is hard to make money (17:15), starting Flexport (19:15), having entrepreneurial parents (21:45), the Trump factor (24:30), how he makes money (26:05), his worst day of work (27:30), remote work (29:10), raising $1bn (31:50), and getting backed by Softbank (37:10).

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