Ryan Petersen
@typesfast
Founder and CEO of Flexport. Tariff whisperer
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The Official Flexport Timeline of Global Trade
(Print it as a poster and put on your child's wall)
Today I took a Waymo to work instead of letting my Tesla drive me. Took twice as long (not even counting the wait). The routing was insane and the driving soooo slow.
Warehouse robots are here!
Introducing Flexport's newest automated fulfillment center just outside of Chicago.
I hope the (ex) employee who got upset at me for naming a conference room after Christopher Columbus back in 2017 is enjoying the federal holiday today.
It was pretty reckless to allow any of the Terminator movies into the AI training datasets, and it really gives them quite a leg up on us now that they know our strategies
Anyone who says AI isn’t improving their life hasn’t used Claude to find a guy with a boat to give them tours of the San Francisco Bay
Here's a fact to drive home just how incredible the current tanker market is:
It is now cheaper to book a standard Falcon 9 launch ($74m) than it is to take a VLCC from the USG to the Far East (~$80m).
#OOTT# #tankers#
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Houthis just blew up a passenger plane at the Riyadh airport.
114 flights delayed, 20 canceled. That's all?
How can you trust probabilistic AI in a high stakes domain like customs compliance?
At @flexport our answer is to use the LLMs to write code, which once signed off on by human experts runs deterministically every time.
I explain how we're using this approach in our new business rules engine for handling customs compliance automation.
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My full presentation of the Fall 2026 Flexport Tech Release from last week.
Up 58% in 60 days since I told you to buy btw...
Buy yourself some $SPCX so you can watch rocket launches with your children and make your family part of the sci fi future!
Note: This is investment advice.
I miss the days when future billionaires would try to sell me stuff on twitter
@_slinehan by the way—what does flexport do for its tasks like transcription? Would love to see if there's tasks @scaleAPI could help with
One of our employee’s mothers just asked to see his performance review and I’m certain this guys gonna be a star.
Cool job alert!
Hunting for someone (freelance or agency?) to run (on Shopify) for me. Hitting the monthly revenue goal is the #1# goal. Must be able to manage and implement all edits/changes needed to make it really hum. Know anyone?
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We're making space lasers and you're black pilling?
T-1 day until Reason-1 heads to orbit aboard a @SpaceX Falcon 9.
Once in orbit, our first mission will attempt something no commercial spacecraft has done before: power on a kilowatt-class laser in space.
CEO @BaijuBhatt and COO @JoeYaffe with Reason-1 before its journey.
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Somali special forces carrying out their own raids against pirates feels under discussed.
We just gave your favorite AI tools the ability to ship containers between any two places in the world by any mode of transport, including clearing customs compliantly, with Flexport MCP.
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I'm presenting Flexport's latest release of AI and technology for global logistics this morning at 9:00 am Pacific. Watch live right here on X.
I think 99% of all web traffic will be AI by next year, right?
Does Google Analytics have any plan for this?
