Grant Lafontaine

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"I kept coming back to eBay, which is back in the day I used to sell on Yahoo Auctions and eBay. It was like pre-payment processing online. It was Pokemon cards. Everything that was trending on eBay was collectibles and I could see all my friends were getting back into collectibles."

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"He said he'd sell it to you for a Bitcoin. I was an early Bitcoin investor, so I had Bitcoin. And Bitcoin back then was worth $10,000. Logan haggled them down to half a Bitcoin — for five grand."

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"Maybe they have a brick-and-mortar shop or they have a Shopify store or, you know, a bunch of things like that. So, I think the seller base is inherently much more diverse."

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"At that point in time was when eBay was getting started and then their biggest competitor was Yahoo Auctions."

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"The dominant is actually sort of looks like almost TJ Maxx-like, which is old season inventory, really good pricing, and so you can get some amazing deals on great brands."

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"One of our initial ideas, which we did actually sort of do for a couple weeks, was we'll build like a better full-service Craigslist, which is a horrific business idea, by the way."

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"We had heard of QVC. My impressions of QVC was like no one wants to shop on QVC — it's like grannies shopping on QVC, so no one my age wants to shop on QVC."