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14 August 2026

Flexport released a video game. It too is unprofitable.

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Source reporting: The Loadstar

Flexport released a video game. It too is unprofitable.

Our Adam Clermont writes on LinkedIn: Flexport released a video game. This is a real sentence. Flexport, the company that has spent the last three years laying people off in rotating twenty percent increments like a shrinking nesting doll, has released a tycoon-style strategy game in which you, the player, build a global shipping empire from a single cargo vessel to world domination. You begin as a “Dockside Trader. ” You end, ...

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