Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Very addictive industry. It's always on. Always different. Every day is unique. You see what's happening in the world. In a insane degree. I've been working on my own thing, which we can't flex for our goal is to be an asset light technology platform for freight forwarding. And you're the most tech forward of all companies. Kind of we're the only one. I think most businesses like actually quality costs less. It's very counterintuitive.

Go deeper on that. But well in in logistics, like all the costs come from you make a mistake. Like if you file a customs entry. And you get the wrong classification code. You're gonna spend weeks on doing that.

Hey, that's the game, you know, it's business. It's not a On a socialist project. What did you learn from that? This is proprietary secret I'm gonna let you in on. We're gonna get into some of this. These tariffs have had the opposite impact that Trump would like. I think there's intention or some validity to it all, or some of the things I said from national security and employment and other things, but the result Has been Welcome to the Knowledge Project Podcast. I'm your host, Shane Parish.

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