Comment / Market insight: Flexport – a Silicon Valley darling, but what's it worth?

“There seems to be a real disconnect as always between the freight world and the venture capital world. What I’ve told our employees after every fundraise is that we are not worth $1bn, but rather that investors think there is a 10% chance we are worth $10bn and a 90% chance we’re worth a lot less (maybe zero).” Flexport founder and CEO Ryan Petersen on LinkedIn.

San Francisco-based Flexport is on everybody’s lips these days, and rightly so as speculation grows that ...