Flexport's CEO on Amazon & Shopify, Red Sea Shipping Problems, and Inflation — With Ryan Petersen
Big Technology Podcast
Alex Kantrowitz
4.7 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | We'll navigate career pivots. |
| 0:10.1 | We'll learn where happiness fits in. |
| 0:11.9 | Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel, on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:19.8 | The CEO of Flexport is here to talk about his company's challenge to Amazon, |
| 0:24.6 | shipping through the Red Sea and the state of inflation, along with plenty more. |
| 0:28.6 | All that coming up right after this. |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for Cool Edit. |
| 0:33.9 | Hewant's Conversation of the Tech World and Beyond. |
| 0:36.9 | Ryan Peterson is here. He's the CEO and the |
| 0:38.9 | founder of Flexport, which is a supply chain management and logistics technology company. We have so |
| 0:44.3 | much to talk about a lot of interesting news since we spoke last, including the exit of Ryan and the |
| 0:50.0 | return of Ryan. We'll get to that in a moment. But first I want to welcome Ryan to the show. |
| 0:54.0 | Ryan, welcome. Hi, thanks for having me on. Thanks for being here. Over the past few months, |
| 0:58.9 | it's really crystallized to me that you're competing with Amazon now. Like beforehand, |
| 1:04.7 | it was like, okay, you're doing supply chain and logistics, and you're already giving me a weird |
| 1:08.6 | face. I'm excited to hear you sort of take on this |
| 1:11.0 | argument. And now you have acquired Shopify's logistics business and this seems like it's |
| 1:19.2 | going to become a big part of your mix. You know, you don't give away, I think it's 13% of your |
| 1:23.8 | company unless you're planning to go big on logistics and for amazon you know as much as |
| 1:29.4 | we talk about the selection in their stores it's the logistics that's made a huge difference in terms |
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