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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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

You notice as soon as you have kids, I get more purpose from that than I could from Flexport.

And so that's the vast majority of human beings should get their purpose from their family, from their life.

Yeah.

They should just have kids and then that'll be solved.

That problem will be solved instantly.

But if you get a lot of purpose from your work, then you can have the opposite problem of like, oh, like you still got to be a great dad.

For the last decade, I didn't want to compete on price and I wanted to be the premium provider in logistics and thought it would be bad to compete on price.

And now I'm like pretty convinced that we need to be the low cost leader and just go so hard at lowering our costs that if you're cheaper, you just take all the market.

And I think I was maybe lying to myself because it was too hard to automate the work and too hard to become the low cost provider and we're smaller than some of the big peers.

So they buy freight cheaper than us and stuff.

And I think I was lying to myself and it's like, no, you need to be the cost leader.

and we have to figure out everything we can to be the cost leader.

Masa was like, he was like, just fell under your cost.

Like, I don't believe in that.

Who do you not have on your board that you'd most like to have on your board?

I don't think our Flexports board needs anybody.

The board is, like, mostly there to represent the interests of the investors and make sure we're doing a good job, not, like... Okay, but whose wise counsel would you like to have?

You want to join the board?

Is that what you're angling?

Listen, I think I'd add a lot to the board personally, but it needs to be your decision, ultimately.

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