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Flexport’s Ryan Petersen on building through chaos at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025


Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport, joins the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, on October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Register to join.

One of the biggest questions facing founders today: How do you keep building when the rules won’t stop shifting? After stepping down as CEO in 2022, he returned less than a year later to steady the ship and chart its next phase of growth. Along the way, he’s become a sharp voice on topics like tariffs, trade policy, and the role of AI in global commerce.

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