Discussion

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads

  Being successful at a big tech is not the same thing as being successful at a startup.  It's also hard to be a new CEO with the old CEO & founder looking over your shoulder everyday.  If anything, the surprise should be that he lasted a year.

• @vishvanands Vishvanand Subramanian on threads

  Linda Yaccarino reading the second sentence and looking at her calendar like 😔

• @davehclark Dave Clark on x

  I just shared this internally with the teams @flexport. Wishing the team nothing but success on the journey! [image]

• @alexrkonrad Alex Konrad on x

  tech CEO: I'm stepping down twitter: amazing! congrats! CEO: ...and I'm becoming a VC twitter: more amazing, more congrats! CEO: ...actually, I'm coming back twitter: omg EVEN MORE CONGRATS

• @typesfast Ryan Petersen on x

  Sharing the note that I just shared with the Flexport team about my return as CEO. [image]

• @rrpre Rachel Premack on x

  A Flexport representative in an email to me: “Today, Dave Clark resigned as CEO of Flexport. Founder Ryan Petersen will be returning as CEO. Ryan and the rest of the board thank Dave Clark for his leadership over the past year. Flexport has nothing further to share on this matter…

• @alexrkonrad Alex Konrad on x

  Shock news at Flexport as Dave Clark, founder Ryan Petersen @typesfast's handpicked successor, has resigned after just a year. Petersen just joined VC firm Founders Fund in July. Then, he said he'd remain chairman but that it was Clark's show to run 👀 https://www.forbes.com/...

• @rrpre Rachel Premack on x

  This Flexport story keeps getting weirder and weirder. Sources tell @bylizyoung that Dave Clark “has hired political consultants to advise him on a potential run for governor of Texas, where he resides, according to people familiar with the matter” https://www.wsj.com/...

• @typesfast Ryan Petersen on x

  I'm back!!!

• @ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x

  Can any startup survive the SoftBank curse?

• @davehclark Dave Clark on x

  God Bless Texas.

• @teamblind Blind on x

  After only one year, @davehclark resigned as CEO of @flexport today. Verified professionals on Blind have called the former Amazon executive's memo “classy” and “based.” [image]

• @rrpre Rachel Premack on x

  THE EXCLUSIVE DAVE CLARK INTERVIEW... Flexport's now ex-CEO tells FreightWaves that Flexport founder Petersen is looking to pivot Flexport back to its core mission of global trade Clark joined the company to make Flexport an end-to-end customer solution https://www.freightwaves.c…

• @jakeswearingen Jake Swearingen on x

  This was Clark's big move post-Amazon to a very high-profile logistics firm right as “supply chain” was the topic du jour. Very much hope someone has the story of what happened here 👀

• @teamblind Blind on x

  Some verified @flexport professionals on Blind are looking forward to Ryan's return, claiming the company's culture suffered under Dave Clark's leadership [image]

• @devahaz Deva Hazarika on x

  No idea how things are going at Flexport, but rare to see a high profile guy leaving be this direct about disagreeing with the returning founder/CEO (and presumably board/investors/etc) on the best strategy for the business

• @mattmday Matt Day on x

  Area man seeks new job (maybe in politics?!) Before Clark left Amazon for Flexport, he and his family moved to Dallas. Some colleagues in Seattle suspected he was eyeing a run for office. https://www.bloomberg.com/...