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Ryan Petersen

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The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I have no idea.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I haven't gotten any good economists to answer that.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Look how they run a survey.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I'm like, yeah.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Interesting.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Is that valid data?

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Is that accurate?

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I know how hard it is to get accurate data out of my own company.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So the idea of the government economists getting accurate data about all of the companies, I'm always very skeptical on these things.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

It's 100% correct.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I'm so skeptical on big government data sets.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Bottleneck is going to be, you know, the point, the choke point, the point at which the limiting factor.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And I think you're in a company, your bottleneck should always be customer demand.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Should never be like bottleneck.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Oh, I can't.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Right now we're bottlenecked in our customs team, our trade advisory team.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

The people that are helping solve these problems that I was describing around how much do you owe and how to minimize it, how to be compliant.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

That team is super bottlenecked.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

We didn't plan for a world that would require this much expert headcount.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And it's hard to find these types of people that really know the space.