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