Expeditors out of court – this is pretty damn weird
This is so Kafkaesque
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By Alex Lennane
Former Flexport staffers “brazenly” stole trade secrets and data, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the forwarder, and then they launched their own company, Freightmate.ai.
Freightmate launched in June last year, having raised $650,000 in a pre-seed round ? it also announced a $5m seed round investment at the end of January this year.
Co-founders Yingwei (Jason) Yu left Flexport in May, having joined in June 2021 from Amazon, while Bryan Lacaillade, left Flexport in April, where he was director of product ...
Comment on this article
Dwight Campbell
March 18, 2025 at 9:23 pm“Flexport vigorously guards its commercially sensitive and proprietary information, including the trade secrets at issue”
It sounds like “brazen” beats “vigorous”.
I envision brazen as being almost out in the open.
It sounds to me more like secretly, covertly, clandestinely, furtively, surreptitiously, discreetly, privately, quietly, privily, etc.
Jim Powell
April 01, 2025 at 6:15 pmI spent half a lifetime in the forwarding/3PL/carrier business and I’ve seen a lot of thieves and cannibals…
If true this is pretty ballsy… sorry didn’t have my thesaurus… and brazen. It’s almost as if a culture of theft is somehow condoned — of, I can steal stuff form a corporation, it won’t hurt anybody…. but then again maybe they don’t even care that much. Just bits and bytes.