Ryan Petersen
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
And then I saw that.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
I mean, I'm like, you're moving from Arizona.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
I moved to Arizona.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
I'm not from there.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
I moved there for KPX before China, actually.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
Before and after.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
So I had moved there for this business, for these businesses.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
And then I saw him leave to go to the Bay Area where I went to college at Berkeley to do Y Combinator.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
I was like jealous.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
So I followed him.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
Like sleeping on the couch.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
Literally, yeah, sleeping in the air mattress in our little apartment.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
And I would just go.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
Y Combinator at that time did not have great security, so I would just go with him to all the Y Combinator sessions and just act like I was part of his company, even though I kind of was.
The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
And then that inspired me to go.