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JET.com founder, Mark Lore, is leaving Walmart

JET.com founder, Mark Lore, is leaving Walmart

Mark Lore is a storied exec. Amazon acquihired him when the purchased Quidsi in 2011. He co-founded Quidsi, and it was the parent company of Diapers.com. Amazon scooped it up for the paltry sum of $545M. Lore later left Amazon to start Jet.com. When Jet was a little...
Did eBay Miss The Mark? PoshMark and StockX eye IPOs

Did eBay Miss The Mark? PoshMark and StockX eye IPOs

There was a time when eBay was the place to find rare goods. When Amazon’s strength as a logistics player started to hurt eBay’s bottom line, it seems like eBay tried to compete rather than pivot into their core-competency: a rare goods marketplace, not a...
Will niche networking Be the Undoing of LinkedIn?

Will niche networking Be the Undoing of LinkedIn?

There are a new crop of apps and websites that help people network within specific industries. Wildcast is a website that helps podcasters network with other podcasters Podcasting is a big industry and new titles crop up daily. The choice of podcasts appears to be...
GM rebrands Logo For The Electric Age

GM rebrands Logo For The Electric Age

GM has rebranded their logo in what seems to be an attempt to appeal to younger, savvier buyers. GM has what new upstart electric car companies do not have – expertise and credibility (if you can it that considering the malaise era through the mid 00s) when it...
Will Zoom Be Dethroned?

Will Zoom Be Dethroned?

Hopin’s growth amid Zoom’s fatigue is giving validation to a whole crop of remote-work-focused startups. I see startups in the category sitting in two camps: Either you’re betting that users want a more passive way to interact with video or you’re betting that users...