Comment / The great distraction: 'Clark vs Petersen' – Flexport Europe news is juicier

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Flexport’s cost-cutting exercise is reaching Europe, it seems, as I wrote here yesterday, while the biggest topic being talked about in the market* was still ’Clark vs Petersen’.

(*’David Petersen versus Goliath Clark’ some sources have hinted at, that kind of narrative. Seriously amusing, whether you agree or not with that sort of analogy!) 

So what?

One, the ex-Amazonian, wasn’t shy reiterating what most of us know very well: Flexport is often overly aggressive with its internal and public financial assertions; Petersen isn’t ...