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Ryan Petersen

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The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

You show up in an office and you're like, okay, we're going to do a half a day of training.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

You have to sit through like four talks in a row.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

You lose your mind.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

But if I give you a menu and you're like, hey, there's like four talks happening right now.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And there's 16 talks, right?

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

For the next four hours, you can just choose your own adventure.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Which talk would you want to go to?

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

People all of a sudden like, this is amazing.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I get to go learn about it.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And our business is super interesting geographically.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

we're in all the different countries and, um, almost all the countries, we different modes of transport, different technologies.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

There's like, it's actually an incredible thing.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So if you give people agency, so we try to do that to like overcome this problem of, I just realized I, we haven't really, I think we're a pretty well-run company.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

We have everybody writing teams, like write these documents of what their strategy is, what happened this month, like these six pages are kind of, we took this from Amazon years ago before we ever heard Dick Clark, um,

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

the six pagers that you would write updates.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Well, I read them all.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I get access to all of them, but no one else does.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

A couple other people on the team

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

We're not that secretive, but just like, it's not part of the structure.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

It was like, they don't disseminate.