Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
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Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#2Wow. Nice
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#3Being unsexy is the new sexy for some time now.
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#4Congrats. I remember watching Flexport get pitched to PG and Sam Altman during open 'Office Hours' at Startup School in 2013.
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#5Is this an article from TechCrunch about how a company doing good, important, profitable work was previously called "unsexy" by TechCrunch and is continuing to do good, important, profitable work? Did anyone else call them "unsexy"?
> But as the mainstream embraces startup culture and aspiring founders flood Silicon Valley, there seems to be no shortage of people willing to chase things that seem like a bad idea.
... how does this company possibly seem like a bad idea?
I mean, if you find writing websites in $web_framework_of_the_month more exciting (or "sexy", whatever that's supposed to mean, I don't need to know about your tech fetishes) than delivering business value, that seems like your sense of excitement is off, not that they're doing something unexpected.
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#6We're hiring!
Product + Design: https://www.flexport.com/careers/department/design
Engineering: https://www.flexport.com/careers/department/engineering
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#7What about Amazon? they had a some similar plan, to become a global logistics network. And it's highly likely they'll be a competitor to flexport ?
What's Flexport's advantage in that case ?
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#8Being unsexy is the new sexy for some time now.
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Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#9Being unsexy is the new sexy for some time now.
I'm so fucking sexy then :p
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#10From the article: "Flexport wholistically analyzes all its data to optimize shipping routes and simplify relationships with ports, truck drivers and anyone else that touches a container".
wholistically? ouch.