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Ryan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of Flexport.
Timestamps:
0:03 Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy
2:29 The explosion in tariff fraud
8:58 The Dutch East India Company
11:20 History of global trade
14:39 1,000x spice markup
17:53 The British East India Company
24:02 How the British got 20% of China addicted to opium
27:44 The Forbes family & opium trade
30:40 Jewish trading networks
37:33 It’s illegal to criticize the King of Thailand
38:58 Strait of Hormuz
45:58 Maritime chokepoints
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