Flexport, a freight forwarding service and software company that offers an operating system for global trade, raised a $20 million Series A round led by Thiel of Founders Fund last year.
Her father owns K International Transport Company, a freight forwarding company in New York.
Her father is the owner of NGL Logistics, a freight forwarding company in Jamaica, Queens.
"Maybe things are too free, culturally," said Pham Nhu Hung, 27, who works for a freight forwarding company.
His father is the chief executive of CTII Worldwide, a freight forwarding company there.
In the mid-1980s, Jim Harper owned a freight forwarding company, AK-Pacific, which shipped perishables between Seattle and ports in Alaska.
One was Suleiman Mochiwa, the owner of a freight forwarding service, and the other, Paulo Gavana, an ebony carver.
For businessmen like Stefanus Sulimro Lim, who runs a midsize freight forwarding company, Global Abadi Perkasa, it is a worsening headache.
Manny had a distinguished career as an executive in the freight forwarding industry in New York City; he was very proud of his service in the US Navy in the Phillipines.
Petersen embraced both the literal and figurative schleps necessary to build something new in freight forwarding.
Flexport is both a traditional freight forwarding service that arranges your goods to be transported, and a data provider.
