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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

What it’s like on the frontlines of Trump’s tariff’s war

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Azeem Azhar speaks with Ryan Petersen, CEO and founder of logistics platform Flexport, about the current state of global trade amidst escalating tariffs, geopolitical tensions, and technological disruption. Ryan offers unique insights from the frontlines of the US-China trade war and explores how businesses are adapting to a rapidly changing landscape.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Global trade is under immense pressure from many angles.

0:03.6

What's the mindset that you've seen in your customers,

0:06.8

these American businesses who are ordering from China?

0:10.0

It's very ugly. There will be bankruptcies from this.

0:12.8

People are pretty pissed off, realizing, hey, you know, you build your whole life,

0:16.2

build your whole career around this.

0:17.8

And now all of a sudden, you know, maybe your business model doesn't work.

0:20.2

They're sitting there thinking, okay, we still have to set up our customers they're trying to figure out

0:25.1

where they can reconfigure and how quickly they can do that ironically like some of this stuff might

0:30.1

increase the demand for global shipping a lot of what's happened is manufacturing is moved

0:34.4

final assembly manufacturing is moved to places like Vietnam. But a lot of the

0:38.1

components are still made in China. If you're like, oh, trade's going to go down. Actually, trade might go up.

0:42.4

We have seen a tremendous growth in global trade really since year dot. When you look at this,

0:47.9

you see anything that changes that path. The human beings have an innate desire to find a customer

0:53.7

or a supplier that helps them make

0:55.9

their life better.

0:57.0

And if a certain government tries to rein it in, guess what?

0:59.3

The main line of trade will move elsewhere and civilization will advance.

1:03.4

And there's many cases where cities that were once great got left behind.

1:07.0

My personal prediction, you didn't ask me my prediction, but I'll go ahead and say it.

1:11.9

I'm here with a man who was really at the center of this tariff storm and the impact of these trade wars,

1:19.1

Ryan Peterson, the CEO of the very, very fast-growing logistics platform, flex port.

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