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I'd take that bet. Slack is more like Facebook meets LinkedIn.
Oh, I will take the other side of this bet.
You want LongBets: http://longbets.org/
Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
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Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
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To be fair, the turnaround time for a plane is probably close to an order of magnitude faster than a ship. Where ships have an advantage is in mass, not volume.
Oh yea, I'm certainly not questioning whether it made sense for Amazon to buy up some planes, because they definitely ship enough volume (even just domestically) to experiment with that. Though I would argue ships have advantage in both mass and volume, but are significantly lacking in latency.
In case I wasn't clear, it isn't just the latency, it is the number of loads that can be made in a given amount of time.
Just like a restaurant that is always full makes more money if their clients eat quickly and leave, freeing up space for more customers to do the same.
From my own supply chain experience, by volume air freight is only slightly more expensive than sea, but by mass the difference is an order of magnitude.
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#133As of now, Flexport is just a front-end to few other online shipping companies. One of many gazillions companies doing the same. If you ask who can be sold for a lot of moneys, it will be them: all 'seals of approval'(Thiel, YC, big banks waiting in line to underwrite for them), buzzwords, star team, and so much money and resources that they can't possibly screw up operationally If you ask who will be dominating the…
You should also add low interest financing to that list, as alipay does for vendors who sell on the alibaba platform. Btw who is this Singaporean"APIsed 3pl/scm" leader ? Although in a sense , what the big deal, if flexe(very scalable warehousing and fulfillment provider) has an API, flexport can just easily integrate it.
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Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
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Much of SV is wary of MBAs. But I don't think that view extrapolates to founders since they are a different breed than employees.
I see people say this online a lot, but everywhere I look there are startups full of MBA's in SF and SV.
Eventually you will need the MBAs to "straighten you out." I'm sure Harvard, Stanford, Columbia etc would be forced to close their schools if they provided no value to their students, as no one would hire them.
In SV they are derided and part of it, IMO, it's because all the investors want a brilliant guy with no sense of organizing. Investors will provide that, for an extra xx% :)
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
#135Do you know there is actually a way to invest in these highly valued startups? For example, EquityZen is a platform that lets people to invest in private pre-IPO companies.
EquityZen: https://equityzen.com/?utm_source=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombin...
Re: Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
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I can draw an contract for a 10% fees.
Someone set up an escrow service. I want in. As an aside, I have pondered the viability of an escrow service aimed specifically at people who want to wager about topics like these. I see this at verious forums, someone says Company A will be bankrupt in a year and another one says that won't happen. One of them frequently pipes up to say, "I'll bet you $100 that I'm right!" Yet, nobody ever takes the chance to capita…
This is where Smart Contract comes in.