Today we are sitting down with Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport. Founded in 2013, Flexport combines powerful technology with physical transportation infrastructure to modernize freight forwarding. Today, nearly 10,000 companies ranging from emerging brands to Fortune 500s use Flexport to move nearly $19 Billion dollars worth of merchandise across 112 countries. Join us as we talk about what got him here, and the company Ryan built from just an idea, to an $8 Billion Startup.

Work at Flexport: https://www.flexport.com/careers/jobs/

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00:00 Introduction
01:12 Meet Ryan Petersen
03:01 Ryan’s Startup Journey
09:08 Flexport’s Value Proposition
14:11 Flexport’s Goals & Initiatives
18:45 Flexport Capital
22:15 How Software is Flexport’s leg-up
25:19 Autonomy through Leadership
33:15 Flexport’s Expanding Vision
37:11 "Knowing How to Know"
41:14 Building a Talent Engine

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Directed by Chris Hall
Filmed by Michael Bliss & William Cenote

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Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on Scaling a Startup from Zero to $8B