Ryan Petersen
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Podcast Appearances
I don't know what happened at City Hall.
They got the license printed, and we, you know, sent it to customs.
It all got moved.
But, like, there was a moment there where, like, Flexport was not going to be able to operate in San Francisco.
And it was just crazy.
Can't issue a license.
So, anyways, that was very early days.
Many things happened.
I would say, like, the summary of it all is we had product market fit just, like, insane from the get-go to the point of it being a problem.
Like, more demand than we could keep up with, asking us to do more things than we were capable of doing.
Just sort of run away.
It was not all success.
Lots of mistakes and bumps in the road.
But I guess the big – a couple of big –
milestones on there.
One is we started out when we went through Y Combinator, Flexport was just a customs brokerage.
We didn't do freight forwarding.
And we said, hey, we're going to do freight forwarding someday.
But we wanted to just focus.