Ecommerce legends and their unusual career paths
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The document profiles 12 founders of successful ecommerce businesses and their unusual career paths prior to founding their companies. It describes founders who had worked as a sandwich artist, thrift store seller, extreme sewer, nightclub photographer, financial advisor, talent agent, pizza seller, and more. Many pivoted from unrelated fields and utilized a variety of skills and experiences to eventually create successful ecommerce businesses.
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Ecommerce legends and their unusual career paths
- 1. and their unusual career paths ecommerce legends ecommerce legends 22 PRESENTS
- 2. Ever wondered what the founders of your favorite ecommerce businesses were doing before that FATEFUL spark of inspiration? We did too, so We Compiled a list of 12 founders with the coolest CAREER transitions:
- 3. NASTYGAL Sophia Amoruso has been a Subway Sandwich Artist, sellerof stolen books and art school security guard. She dove intodumpsters and haggled at thrift stores, selling her finds oneBay under the name “Nasty Gal Vintage”. The author of"#GIRLBOSS" has since turned her eBay store into a $100million fashion business. DUMPSTER DIVing sandwich artist
- 4. BLACK MILK CLOTHING James Lillis lived in a little yellow house in Brisbane surrounded by mango trees, working odd jobs to cover his rent. Overcome by a sudden urge to sew, he pawned his CD player and bought a sewing machine. Subsisting on mangoes to fund his passion, Lillis soon found himself selling leggings at flea markets. The business went online and became Black Milk Clothing. extreme SEWING ENTHUSIAST
- 5. TATCHIES Markus Andersson grew up in a family who encouraged his creative side. He started out as a freelance designer while working on various startups. For additional income, Andersson worked as a nightclub photographer, image retoucher, sound engineer, event manager and a DJ. He went on to become the Digital Art Director at Stockholm's The ViralCompany, where he founded Tatchies. The man of a 1000 odd jobs
- 6. Diapers.com Executive Vice President of Sanwa International Bank, Marc Lore and Wall Street Lawyer Vinit Bharara co-founded The Pit, an avenue to trade sports memorabilia as you would stocks. Toy maker The Topps Company acquired The Pit and appointed Lore as Chief Operating Officer while Bharara became their General Counsel. The duo went on to create Diapers.com,the world's largest online retailer of baby products. THE Titans of the Toy industry
- 7. ZAPPOS While at Harvard, Tony Hsieh managed the Quincy House Grille selling pizza to the students in his dorm. Post Harvard, Hsieh worked for Oracle Corporation then co-founded and sold internet advertising network Link Exchange to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 Million. Tony Hsieh joined Zappos and his number one customer from his days selling pizza, Alfred Lin, became his CFO and COO. HARVARD's PIZZA PEDDLER
- 8. BEARDBRAND Eric Bandholz worked as an Account Executive at Sunset Direct and Boingo Graphics before moving on to become a graphic designer at Wakomo. He spent a year as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch then did marketing at Sovrnty, a graphic design firm. Inspired by feedback from the beard community, Bandholz founded BeardBrand in 2013. MULTI-CAREER-Man
- 9. ZULILY Darrell Cavens developed large web properties at starwave during the internet boom such as ESPN.com, NBC.com and ABCNews.com. Cavens met eventual business partner Mark Vadon while the pair served as CTO and CEO respectively at Blue Nile, the largest online diamond and fine jewellery retailer. Cavens spent a year at Microsoft working on the BizTalk Server product before the pair Co-founded Zulily. DYNAMIC DIAMOND DEALING DUO
- 10. SHOPIFY OPEN SOURCE SUPERHERO The year was 2004, and Tobias Lütke was tired of developing financial backend software. He wanted to sell snowboards, but was frustrated by the existing ecommerce platforms. Then he discovered Ruby on Rails, and with newfound enthusiasm, built the software he wished existed. That software is called Shopify, and now powers 100,000 stores worldwide.
- 11. THE DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB Professional Funny man Fresh out of college, Michael Dubin moved to New York City and worked as a page at NBC. For about a decade, Dubin was a student and performer of sketch comedy and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade. His experience undoubtedly contributed to the success of The Dollar Shave Club, which exploded in popularity after its hilarious promotional video went viral.
- 12. GREATS TALENT AGENT + MANAGER Ryan Babenzien embarked on his curvy career path as an agent and manager in the entertainment business, during which he also consulted for streetwear brands. He burst into the sneaker industry as the Head of Entertainment Marketing at PUMA before lending his talents to K-Swiss. Babenzien staged a revival of sportswear brand Boast USA before teaming up with Jon Buscemi to bring beautiful, reasonably sneakers to the masses through GREATS.
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