Ryan Peterson

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1,212 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 20 Jun

Ryan Peterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Maybe.

Yeah, they mostly bet on me.

They had never invested in this market before, that's for sure.

Peter, you know, I met Peter.

Sam Altman introduced me to Peter.

Sam was one of our earliest investors and he invested me to Peter to get advice.

It was a classic thing because everyone loves his book, right?

It'd be zero to one.

It's such a great book.

And so Sam introduced me and that book has six or seven.

I can't remember.

I think there's like six questions to decide if you'll change the world.

They were like, this is like an incredible startup that you should ask.

And on five of the six questions, I felt like Flexport knocked it out of the park, best possible answer.

But then one of them was, one of them is, is it a small market?

Because his whole thesis was like, you should have a market that's small enough that you can be a monopolist.

And when I went to whiteboard with him and hang out with him, I'm like, well, look, I want to know, should I make myself?

I can make this a small market.

I'd be like, oh, we're going to dominate logistics for hardware companies in Silicon Valley or something, but it's kind of fake.

The market's actually really big.

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