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Ryan Petersen (Ryan Petersen) has turned posting like he's tech's 'hurricane reporter' around all things shipping and trade into a big platform, with 310K followers on X. His lesson for startups: nobody cares. "In general, nobody cares about your startup," Flexport's CEO tells The Upstarts Podcast. "They care about...

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