#4 Anthony Chen - Building and Scaling First Software-Focused Freight Forwarder
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English - June 30, 2020 14:26 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Investing business china entrepreneurship investment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Anthony Chen was the first full-time employee at Flexport. He helped build many of their internal processes and tooling as well as design their customer experience. He also led their expansion into Asia in 2016 starting with their Greater China offices.
Prior to Flexport, Anthony spent some time as a venture capitalist and investment banker, but his love has always been more entrepreneurial. Anthony recently left Flexport and is looking forward to starting his next endeavor.
Anthony's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chenac/
Anthony's Twitter: https://twitter.com/accrossd/
Flexport is a software-focused freight forwarding and customs brokerage company that helps businesses transport their goods to their point of sale. It is currently valued at more than $3 billion after a $1 billion funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund with existing investors Founders Fund, DST Global, SF Express and others also participating.
Its freight service includes an online dashboard for businesses to easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade. Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Flexport's website: https://www.flexport.com/