Ryan Petersen
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'd been working on my own.
thing, which became Flexplore, inspired me to apply to Y Combinator and go through it as well.
KELSEY HIGHTOWER- Oh, so back in one of the early, we had built Import Genius.
It's a great data set.
It's really powerful.
And you can look up companies and see what they're shipping, who they're buying it from and stuff.
And at that time, I guess still the big thing was, when's the new iPhone going to come out?
I think we were just on that.
There was the 3G iPhone release.
I think that's just, like, the second iPhone ever.
It was kind of crazy.
Where are we on 5G now?
But it was the 3G iPhone.
We had built this product, and we had, like, no users for it.
It was a great example of, like, if you build it, they will not come.
Like, you have to go get a customer.
We had a couple customers, but not really any.
So I knew we needed to get some attention.
People needed to know that this data is out here.