A large team under POTUS has been working on this for two weeks and the Flexport CEO can sail through and come up with this within 24 hours of doing that? That's embarrassing and concerning.
EDIT yes he's not an outsider to the industry, I mean he's an outsider to the group of officials who were tasked with solving this problem.
If you believe that A) you can't have literally everyone in the industry on POTUS's team and B) private industry often has some of the best expertise, I'm not sure I understand why you would be upset about this outcome.
He's upset that the government is (seemingly) incompetent. Defending their incompetence does not change the fact that they were incompetent as someone was so easily able to propose a solution while we have little reason to believe the government had a plan. It doesn't matter if that someone is the world's foremost expert (he's not, by the way) - what good is the government if they can't solve problems they're in charge of fixing?
I would be sympathetic to that if this fix was something highly complicated or requiring significant expertise to come up with. Then I could understand this oversight. And perhaps that's the case here, and it's just my ignorance speaking, but "relax stifling zoning restrictions to immediately double capacity" doesn't seem like it fits into that category of things.
Think of it like a designer giving you a design in 5 minutes. It wasn't the time it took to do the thing that was important, it was the thousands of hours of training that allowed the design to only take 5 minutes.
Ryan Peterson has been doing this for a long time at a high level, it's very hard to get someone like him into civil service.
No, he isn’t an expert, and people in logistics consider him an outsider who is a CEO of a startup that makes software that is helpful for a certain set of concerns within supply chain management. Making software for an industry does not make you a foremost expert.
> Making software for an industry does not make you a foremost expert.
I think it does, if your company is valued at 3.2 billion, does $830m in revenue, and has 10k+ customers (as of 2019) [1]. You probably know what you're doing at that point.
