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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Why Remote Work is White Collar Fraud | Why Revenge and Patriotism are the Best Founder Traits | Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask | The Wild Story of Raising $1BN from Masa Son in an Hour Long Meeting with Ryan Peterson, Founder @ Flexport · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

Like, certainly, they were like that on the way up.

Some people get to the top and then stop being curious, and then, you know, probably their returns or their impact after that will slow down, is my theory, but...

You meet some people on the absolute top who don't care.

Oh, well, it's a picking game, I guess, and you only get one bet, right?

So make sure you get the right one.

My wife is a, when I met her, she was a journalist, actually at Bloomberg.

And I still couldn't kill that Bloomberg story, even though these were her peers that she worked with for years.

I mean, it was crazy even then.

That was a risky move.

I know, yeah.

Fuck, I don't talk to journalists.

It was, it was a bit.

In fact, someone, one of my investors at Founders Fund told me, dude, you need to either marry this woman or break up with her, but you cannot be dating her.

No, he's right.

That's great advice.

So I married her.

And then she had to quit, in part because of me, because she got assigned to cover SoftBank, who's my investor.

And I was like, no, can't do it, sorry.

And she knew that it was not a good fit.

What has it been like having SoftBank?

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