Flexbord, Is It Good for Your Business?

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Flexbord is a direct consumer e commerce business, and we shippe for probably 80 or 90 % of the hot new d te c brands. They're going through almost a perfect storm right now. Because ocean freight rates are sky high,. Mention this ten, 20 thousand dollars to ship it container. A n an ik a really, really bad, like the movie the perfix or a. I'm incredibly worried about the whole detas brant, the whole detase space, the detose space. And itsno, is not just small companies, but walmart announced their costs were through the roof from supply chain on Monday.

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0:00 Claire Cormier Thielke's AIS talk: "Tomorrowland: China Placemaking and the Future of Innovation"

17:40 Claire takes Q&A with the Besties + Ryan Petersen: Understanding the China/US rivalry

24:08 How the Evergrande debt situation impacts the greater Chinese real estate industry, China's still-nascent middle class, How China is subsidizing its negative birth rate

34:30 Ryan Petersen breaks down Flexport's business, the tumultuous past few years, and how DTC might be in major trouble

46:34 Asset-heavy play as a hedge against the popular trend of asset-light, velocity vs. speed, Flexport.org's humanitarian relief shipping, China's influence

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