Flexport (YC W14) and the freight-forwarding business

I'm impressed that

>DHL “bought three of the biggest freight forwarders for $15 billion, then spent $960 million with IBM for an IT backbone, and that failed. They wrote it off completely.”

You'd think IBM could do such stuff.

See also Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syoqjYLDs48&feature=youtu.be...