How shippers are trying to keep up with Trump’s trade war

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast , and co-host of The Vergecast On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re talking tariffs and trade wars. One of the ways I’ve been trying to sort out the chaos of this moment is by talking to the people behind the software that actually runs our global trade systems. We got a lot of notes from listeners who really appreciated our episode with Altana’s Evan Smith, which laid out how data from his supply chain systems illustrated where manufacturing was moving as globalization starts to break down. So today I wanted to bring back one of my favorite Decoder guests: Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen, whose software manages the logistics of moving things around the world, from the factory to your doorstep. Ryan has been on Decoder twice before, once in 2022 and then again in 2023. Check those episodes out; they’re great. What makes Ryan such a fascinating figure is that he’s unique in that he runs a software company in Silicon Valley, but ... Read full article.