What online shoe and clothing shop based in Las Vegas, Nevada, had its founder leave  before it reached $1 billion sales in 2008 and was sold to Amazon in 2009?
16bde9b028fcab94e955e8ba55ffe8a3
Nick Swinmurn Nick Swinmurn founded Zappos.com in 1999. He left Zappos in 2006 before it reached $1 billion sales in 2008 and was sold to Amazon in 2009.
02d1b8bf46c4b721ffb68087e55c7a72
Zappos Zappos.com is an online shoe and clothing shop based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
edd771aba6e63180d694320a73f53758
RevZilla.com RevZilla.com, also known as RevZilla, is an online motorcycle-gear retailer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company sells motorcycle gear, parts and accessories. Nick Auger, Anthony Bucci and Matthew Kull founded RevZilla in 2007.
0ac5e5a62ff43a3a6de2c65ea9687106
Tilly's Tilly's (originally known as World of Jeans and Tops) is an American retail clothing company that sells a wide assortment of branded apparel, accessories, shoes, and more. Tillys headquartered and operated from Irvine, California. The company opened its first store in 1982 in Southern California. Tilly's stores are located in both traditional outdoor shopping centers and in shopping malls. The average store size is 7900 sqft . Due to their size, Tilly's locations in malls usually take up two or three store spaces.
5525fdeea38cd5fac228265140135f41
Fashion Show Mall Fashion Show Mall is a shopping mall located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, and is owned by General Growth Properties Inc. The mall spans 1888151 sqft of space, with more than 250 stores and seven anchors, and hosts weekend fashion shows on a retractable runway with the mall's central atrium, hence the name.
444c95887cc0e05254d7bc99e4e50021
EBay eBay Inc. ( , stylized as ebay) is a multinational e-commerce corporation, facilitating online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 30 countries.
770fab3bd45511951ea5599494887861
Esprit Holdings Esprit Holdings Limited () is a publicly owned manufacturer of clothing, footwear, accessories, jewellery and housewares under the Esprit label. The company is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and Ratingen (near Düsseldorf), Germany. In the 2007–2008 business year, Esprit generated a worldwide sales of around €3.25 billion (as of 30 June 2008). Esprit operates more than 900 retail stores worldwide and distributes products to more than 8,500 wholesale locations around the globe. Esprit has more than 1.1 million square meters of retail space in 40 countries.
7ea59eddd1cb89a22fa0cc6ed666a785
Zulily Zulily is an American e-commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Zulily sells clothing, toys, and home products. Zulily was started in 2009 by Blue Nile executives Mark Vadon and Darrell Cavens. Its initial public offering valued the company at $2.6 billion.
5ac5699c01a4aaae53a1fcd41a4e23ce
Adafruit Industries Adafruit Industries is an open-source hardware company based in New York City. It was founded by Limor Fried in 2005, in her Massachusetts Institute of Technology dorm room. The company designs and manufactures a number of electronics products, sells a wide variety of electronics components, tools, and accessories via its online storefront, and produces a number of learning resources, including written tutorials, introductory videos for beginners, and the longest running live video electronics show on the internet. All Adafruit products are manufactured in their 40000 sqfoot factory in SoHo, Manhattan. In 2013, the company took in US$22 million in revenue, and had shipped over a million products in 480,000 orders, and in January 2016, the company accepted its one millionth order.
5ecaeb0653c08e42523a22fe265f6130
Online Stores Inc. Online Stores, Inc. is an e-commerce company based in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, specializing in retail niche markets that has been in operation since 2001. Its best-selling products are American flags. The privately owned company employs approximately 100 people and includes eight stores: United States Flag Store, English Tea Store, Discount Safety Gear Store, Safety Girl Store, Imprinted Store, Mobile Cases Store, ToySplash, Construction Gear Store.
6c1d8900c0a4b36b45b7cd97ca006f9f
Hess Shoe Store N. Hess' Sons was a Baltimore, Maryland area shoe store founded in 1872. Privately held, it was acquired from the founding family by a German company in the late 1970s. At its peak in 1989 it had 32 stores, shrinking to 23 stores in 1994 in a conscious effort to achieve economies of scale after a bankruptcy and reorganization. At its demise in 1999 it had 11 stores throughout the Baltimore region.
6a5de19feee6f2c12587cc419dcd742c
FramesDirect.com FramesDirect.com is an international online eyewear retailer. The company sells eyewear products such as eyeglasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses through its website. FramesDirect.com sells designer and brand name eyewear products with over 110,000 models displayed on its website. Founded in 1996, FramesDirect.com was one of the earliest online optical retail stores.
b3d983a7b0165df0710486b554d3bc7d
Lakai Limited Footwear Lakai Footwear Limited is an American footwear company based in Torrance, California that creates shoes designed for and inspired by skateboarding. Lakai was founded by professional skateboarders and Girl Skateboards co-founders Mike Carroll and Rick Howard in 1999. Lakai Limited Footwear is part of the Crailtap Distribution along with companies Girl Skateboards, Fourstar Clothing, Royal Trucks, and Chocolate Skateboards.
537d19dae18a098ea60acfe01800c309
TJ Maxx TJ Maxx (often stylised as T•j•maxx) is an American department store chain, selling at prices generally lower than other major similar stores. It has more than 1,000 stores, making it one of the largest clothing retailers in the United States.
616aafd78dafcd0491f1b395131af73b
Oodle, Inc. Oodle, Inc. is an online marketplace based out of San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2004 by ex-Excite executives Craig Donato, Scott Kister and Faith Sedlin.
ee9e3d3aeec8d703d88be2f2b07cf0b4
Endless.com Endless.com was an American e-commerce site owned by Amazon.com, focused exclusively on shoes and accessories. Amazon closed Endless.com on September 27, 2012 and directed its customers to Amazon.com/Fashion.
afb0b0cab4d81fd6f23aba4b0f40c144
Shoe Carnival Shoe Carnival is an American retailer of family footwear. The company operates 419 stores throughout the midwest, south, and southeast regions. It was founded by David Russell in 1978 and is headquartered in Evansville, Indiana.
7c1d18f835f8dc4c9246e727abb8d7e9
Jet.com Jet.com is an American e-commerce company headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company was cofounded by entrepreneur Marc Lore (who had sold his previous company, Diapers.com, to Amazon.com) along with Mike Hanrahan and Nate Faust, and has raised $820 million over four venture rounds from firms including Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, Accel Partners, Alibaba Group, and Fidelity. The site was publicly launched in July 2015.
a18f02c2ec6ce6780b58fd7f0bb5da71
Tieks Tieks is an American footwear brand founded in 2008. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles and sells its shoes, known as “Tieks,” exclusively through its website. Tieks feature a split-sole design, allowing the shoes to fold in half. Tieks have been worn by many celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Alessandra Ambrosio, Francesca Eastwood, Hailee Steinfeld, Tina Fey, Candace Cameron Bure and Chelsea Clinton.
7f3fb58d7487a1697286270de2d556e9
Woot Woot (originally W00t) is an American Internet retailer based in the suburb of Carrollton, Texas in Dallas. Founded by electronics wholesaler Matt Rutledge, it debuted on July 12, 2004. Woot's main web site generally offers only one discounted product each day, often a piece of computer hardware or an electronic gadget. Other Woot sites offer daily deals for t-shirts, wine, children's items, household goods, and two other sites that offer various items. On June 30, 2010, Woot announced an agreement to be acquired by Amazon.com.
7537cbf7a62066e9d27d34bafcb4f800
Ram Shriram Kavitark Ram Shriram (born 1956/57) is an Indian-born American businessman. He is a founding board member and one of the first investors in Google. He earlier served as an officer of Amazon.com working for Jeff Bezos. Shriram came to Amazon.com in August, 1998, when Amazon acquired Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm of which Shriram was president. Before Junglee and Amazon, Shriram was a member of the Netscape executive team, joining them in 1994, before they shipped products or posted revenue.
9f4001d82bf5e539ba65851279539b2a
PerkStreet PerkStreet Financial was an American-based virtual bank that offered checking and debit card accounts with cash-back rewards. The company was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in November 2009, and was led by former Capital One executive Dan O'Malley. With no bank branches, PerkStreet Financial had low operating costs. However, a cash-back rewards scheme that approached 2% for some debit card accounts turned out to be unsustainable, and contributed to the company's closure in 2013.