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Ryan Petersen

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Founder and CEO of Flexport. Tariff whisperer

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1Nov 12, '24My first attempt to get Starlink working on this Delta flight a failure thus far114×12M16k366925
2Apr 10, '25The container ships are still all going around.51.8×5.5M15k1.6k1.8k
3Feb 2, '25De minimus entries from China shut down effective Tuesday.48.2×5.1M6.2k670596
4Apr 3, '25Flexport's team was able to reverse engineer the formula the Administration used to generate the "reciprocal tariffs." It's quite simple, they took the trade deficit the US has wit37.2×3.9M9.4k1.2k2.7k
5Apr 7, '25On April 17th the U.S. Trade Representative's office is expected to impose fees of up to $1.5M per port call for ships made in China and for $500k to $1M if the ocean carrier owns 36.7×3.9M14k3.4k4.6k
6Apr 2, '2546% tariff on Vietnam and 49% on Cambodia is an absolute bomb. So many companies moved all their production there to get out of China.34.9×3.7M34k3.5k2.1k
7Apr 23, '25In the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60% industry wide. 🧵30.3×3.2M12k2.5k2k
8Jul 4, '25When Henry Ford died his heirs discovered he had $700M in physical cash in the company’s vault. Nothing in the bank.23.7×2.5M14k503998
9Jan 6, '2495% of container ships that would’ve transited the Red Sea are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa as of this morning. The ships diverting from their ordinary course are ma22.8×2.4M4.2k1.3k610
10May 21, '25Every airline will install Starlink in the next 2-3 years. I will only fly with Starlink when given the choice and most business travelers are like me.20.2×2.1M12k1.3k239
11Mar 26, '24Me remembering the last time I thought about the Port of Baltimore this much...19×2M26k1.9k367
12Jan 16, '25I’ll never understand people who choose the aisle seat over the window seat.18.3×1.9M23k693548
13Apr 17, '25Thousands, and then millions, of American small businesses, including many iconic brands, will go bankrupt this year if the tariff policies on China don’t change. 🧵17.5×1.8M7.8k1.3k1.7k
14Mar 26, '24A massive container ship crashed into the main bridge of Baltimore’s beltway this morning, causing total collapse to the bridge and cutting off the city’s container port from the g17.4×1.8M3.5k439911
15Apr 12, '25So we’re exempting all advanced electronics from Chinese tariffs and putting a 125 pct tariff on textiles and toys?17.3×1.8M16k1.1k628
16Dec 1, '24Do any hotels let you just go to straight to your room with a mobile app without spending 10 minutes checking in?17.1×1.8M11k121714
17Dec 15, '23Maersk just told all container ships to pause voyages through the Suez canal.16.9×1.8M3.4k521301
18May 4, '24Why are they making the whole high speed rail elevated instead of laying the tracks on the ground? Guys, I think I figured out why they’re blowing through the budget.15.5×1.6M3.7k70222
19Oct 22, '21Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned.14.2×030k9.3k5k
20Apr 25, '25What a shit show. Trump told Time Magazine that Xi called him and Chinese embassy is denying it .14.2×1.5M5.4k418207
21Apr 6, '24RIP Mahbod, founder of RapGenius. You were a legend in your own time.13.9×1.5M7k1.2k648
22Jul 10, '23I have joined Founders Fund. If you are someone who’s out to get revenge after having been wronged by a previous employer or investor, a French technical founder who fled socialism13.2×1.4M5k173461
23Feb 12, '23SF is worth saving13.1×1.4M4.3k14068
24Nov 2, '24Flashback to when the mob in San Francisco took down the statue of Ulysses S Grant, the Union general who won the civil war and freed the slaves.13.1×1.4M51k4.1k1.8k
25Jul 8, '25I saw two guys smoking fentanyl and a guy taking a dump on Market street in Sn Francisco during my afternoon walk yesterday. I also got a ticket for running a stop sign on my bicyc12.7×1.3M29k2.5k1.2k
26Mar 29, '25In 1979 the city of Shenzhen only had 2 telephones12.5×1.3M9.5k6631.1k
27Apr 2, '25Buried in today's Executive Order on tariffs is a bombshell: Duty free "de minimus" shipping is being eliminated from ALL countries as soon as the systems are ready.12.5×1.3M12k1.5k1.1k
28Apr 17, '25Two of our American customers devastated by the tariffs gave up and sold themselves to their Chinese factories in the last week.12.3×1.3M7.2k728688
29Nov 2, '24Every company in the world worth more than $1 trillion was founded on the US west coast, including Saudi Aramco which was started in the same building as @flexport here in San Fran12.2×1.3M3.6k234501
30Feb 18, '23My favorite econ paper correlated the unpaid parking tickets of UN diplomats in NYC with the UN corruption index. They have diplomatic immunity so don't need to pay the tickets, bu11.6×1.2M7.8k688767
31Jul 23, '25Rail is best used for freight while humans should fly through the sky at 500 miles per hour because they value their time.11×1.2M6.8k263415
32Feb 2, '25Can’t believe this app is only $88.5×900k38k1.7k636
33Nov 10, '25You can ship a 40 foot container from Belgium to China for $50 and people think capitalism is failing.8.4×888k12k362960
34Jun 6, '24San Francisco is home to one of only two Liberty ships remaining afloat, the USS Jeremiah O’Brien. She participated in the Normandy landings 80 years ago today, returning to the be8.3×880k5.4k325199
35Dec 24, '24Mexican warehouses providing e-commerce fulfillment services that enable brands to avoid U.S. customs duties were just banned from importing apparel by the…checks notes…President o8.2×867k3.7k3421.2k
36Apr 13, '25Tariffs on semiconductors and electronics will be introduced in about a month, according to U.S. Commerce Secretary Lutnick. Those products were exempted from tariffs just yesterda7.6×807k4.7k486328
37Jul 4, '25👀6.5×684k16k1.2k808
38Mar 1, '25Just met an American business who's customs duties owed will go from $8M last year to $95M with the new tariffs. Brutal.6.4×673k4.2k225282
39Apr 2, '25The Taiwan tariffs at 32% are massive BUT there is a carve out that they don’t apply to semiconductors.6.3×664k5k322311
40Mar 4, '2525% tariffs on products from Mexico and Canada went live for all shipments arriving after 12:01 am EST today. Most “experts” (including me) predicted this was a negotiating tactic 6.0×636k4.5k149311
41Apr 12, '25Met another US manufacturer who’s decided to produce their product overseas where they won’t have to pay duties on component imports.5.9×626k3.7k343291
42May 5, '25I want to go on @joerogan to talk about how tariffs are impacting American companies. Who can connect me?5.9×625k6k240240
43Feb 24, '25With Elon demanding government employees report on what they got done last week, almost nobody noticed what the office of US Trade Representative got done: Proposed $1M fee per por5.7×608k4.3k510496
44Jun 11, '25Put chat GPT on voice mode in your AirPods, rent a lime bike and cruise around London asking about the history of the buildings you see. You will thank me.5.3×562k7.2k2271.6k
45May 1, '25I criticized the American government a lot the last 4 weeks. The tariffs seem stupidly implemented and are hurting our customers and millions of other businesses and consumers in t5.2×553k6.5k288390
46Feb 2, '25Dear @DOGE please look into the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. It occupies an enormous block of prime commercial real estate and all it does is produce special commemorative coins for5.2×549k14k598247
47Feb 23, '25What's it like working in an industry that doesn't create the most beautiful images in the entire world?5.0×532k6.3k2171.2k
48Nov 12, '24A lot of people ridicule Trump’s Freedom Cities thinking they will be in the middle of nowhere on federal lands in some barren desert. I love the idea though and think we should pu4.8×510k3.6k206288
49Apr 2, '25Big thing that jumps out is that he’s going hard on Asia and leaving Latin America at 10%. If you’re setting up your supply chain that message should be obvious.4.8×509k4.1k342386
50Oct 1, '24A 30-70% increase in cost of labor would tank most businesses. But ports are a monopolist, so all the cost increases will get passed on to the carriers who pass it on to the mercha4.7×500k7.2k624362
51May 13, '25Anyone denying the Chinese are ahead on cars has not been to China in the last 5 years.4.2×447k5k262201
52Oct 28, '21What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks? Modern finance with its obsession with "Return on Equity."4.2×010k2.1k2.2k
53May 11, '22👀4.1×013k2.3k338
54Mar 28, '23Slack has the best bug fixes4.0×427k5.3k378120
55Jul 13, '22With 9.1% inflation if your portfolio makes less than 12% per year, the IRS takes 100% of your real dollar returns4.0×014k2.1k564
56Sep 30, '25The ferries on the SF bay generate $12M in passenger fares and have $145M in expenses. Ride them while you can, they are amazingly fast, clean, and almost always empty.4.0×421k5.3k151434
57Dec 2, '24Enron guys are running billboards in Houston 👀3.9×417k3.7k191215
58Mar 23, '25Four years ago today3.9×413k5.4k375155
59Feb 7, '22So many people to thank today, starting with my dentist...3.6×016k402356
60Nov 22, '24Hammurabi’s Code, the world’s oldest surviving legal text, contains 7 laws about shipping.3.6×379k4.7k216537
61Nov 5, '25Sequoia passed on Flexport so many times that I don’t really care who runs the place tbh.3.5×372k3.8k50287
62Aug 17, '25Boarding passes should tell you what terminal you’re leaving from3.5×368k6.9k8084
63Nov 2, '24Our dentist does a candy exchange after Halloween every year where they trade candy for toys. Today I asked them what they do with the candy and they said they donate it to an unde3.1×328k4.8k128191
64Oct 22, '21Update: The city of LB just announced it has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations. Thank you everybody who called the governor and the mayor to request. They got th3.1×011k1k292
65May 5, '25In today's story about Trump reopening Alcatraz prison the Associated Press called the prison "infamously inescapable due to the strong ocean currents and cold Pacific waters that 3.0×315k3.7k161189
66Oct 15, '25Thank you @CAgovernor2.8×301k3.8k123123
67Nov 5, '21This is the bow of the Ever Given. Notice the tiny ant people for perspective.2.8×09.8k1.3k332
68Feb 16, '21Why is every European startup run by the same 3 guys?2.6×010k730273
70Jun 13, '22It might be that many software business models don't work when engineers cost $400k/year.2.6×09.6k477497
71Apr 15, '25Happy tax day. When Abraham Lincoln introduced the (3%) income tax there were riots in the streets of New York.2.5×269k4.2k186163
72Jun 13, '22This picture of McDonalds employees from the era when they cooked in beef tallow instead of canola oil is haunting me. They look so healthy.2.3×07.9k634340
74Oct 28, '22View post on X2.2×09.7k152233
75Jul 4, '25Slack makes it so former employees appear in search results forever and can never be removed which means Soham Parekh’s legacy will last for decades at hundreds of Silicon Valley c2.1×222k5.1k101162
77Aug 11, '22One of the greatest life hacks is that you can search any (recent) nonfiction author’s name on YouTube to find a talk that delivers 90% of the value of their book in around 30 minu1.9×06.5k445827
78Aug 1, '22Average engineer's tenure at major tech companies is too short1.9×05.5k549900
79Apr 13, '25View post on X1.8×187k3.6k272327
81Mar 10, '22It's so hard to get noticed...1.7×07k267180
84Nov 21, '22This is fine1.6×05.1k670343
85Feb 26, '22Ukraine and Russia are major players in the air cargo market, and not just because their locations put them on the most direct flight routes from Asia to Europe. 🧵👇1.4×03.7k806566
86Feb 8, '21A great web cam set up in the 2020s is like a fine Italian suit in the '80s.1.3×04.8k274406
87May 20, '22Remote work + legal marijuana is not a recipe for high output management1.3×04.7k254148
100Oct 15Flexport Customs Technology Suite wins Time Magazine best inventions of 2026.0.2×26k3893625

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