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Ryan Petersen

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The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I mean, this is many millions of dollars probably round trip.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

A couple million.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Like a million probably or 500K.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I'm not sure.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So they gave us a great deal.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

We saw lots of things like that.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

But it wasn't sustainable for the business side of things.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Now, we had a lot of ongoing demand for air freight, but all the passenger planes are grounded.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So we signed a long-term deal for three 747s from Atlas Airlines, the biggest cargo airline in the world.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

dedicated to Flexport.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And it was in that response to that, like, hey, the passenger plane, we have this vision, this view, this perspective that airfreights can be very expensive because all the capacity is grounded and stuff still needs to move.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

People still need to ship stuff.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So we signed a deal with the airline, with that airline at a great rate.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And I think they were, their stock, Atlas was in, is in these airline indices, right?

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Because actually, if we were smarter, we would have just bought their stock because they were a public company and they were in these public, these indices for airlines.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And those tanked.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

But the cargo airline, the price should have gone to the roof because they're still, the price of air freight is going to go crazy.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I think, I haven't really talked to them about why they signed the deal with us, but we got a good deal as a result of that moment where there was this dislocation.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I assume that their stock price going down was like part of it.