Ryan Petersen (Flexport) - Modernizing the Shipping Industry
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
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*Before flex port - creating database of public records *
Entrepreneur Ryan Petersen discovered a valuable business opportunity while trying to solve the problem of shipping goods. He realized that the documents used for international shipping in the US were public records full of valuable data. Petersen spent several years collecting and digitizing these documents, creating a subscription-based database. However, the challenge is that the data is public, and eventually, it may be freely available or taken away.
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