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Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

#11

Post by 54mf »

whalesalad wrote: post #5

Zach Klein is killing it. Co-founder of Vimeo, founder of Svpply. He's been involved in lots of other cool gigs too. It's been really fun to follow along with his progress over the last few years. Tons of respect for the guy, and glad that he has done most of this outside of SV. Congrats on the sale!

Oh, absolutely. Between Vimeo, Svpply, DIY, and his Cabin Porn blog (SFW, you should check it out if you haven't yet), he seems to have impeccable taste for things the internet could use. Huge props to him for everything.

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by jjacobson »

"With Svpply.com, eBay gains access to technology talent to further improve the shopping and selling experience for its customers. Svpply.com assets – including a talented team of six designers and developers – are well-suited to help eBay advance more personalized experiences and merchandising options on eBay.com."

Doesn't really sound like EBay is excited about Svpply as much as it is about the team. But can the vision that drives and motivates the team of an awesome startup like Svpply exist inside a giant corporation?

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

#13

Post by whalesalad »

54mf wrote: post #11
whalesalad wrote: post #5

Zach Klein is killing it. Co-founder of Vimeo, founder of Svpply. He's been involved in lots of other cool gigs too. It's been really fun to follow along with his progress over the last few years. Tons of respect for the guy, and glad that he has done most of this outside of SV. Congrats on the sale!

Oh, absolutely. Between Vimeo, Svpply, DIY, and his Cabin Porn blog (SFW, you should check it out if you haven't yet), he seems to have impeccable taste for things the internet could use. Huge props to him for everything.

Cabin Porn is super rad!

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

#14

Post by jamiequint »

54mf wrote: post #2

Sigh. They even had a business model, too. Disappointed. Looking forward to Svpply either (a) being slowly destroyed, or (b) shut down all together so the team can work exclusively on eBay's awful site. Congrats in advance to the team on cashing out 12/24/48 months from now.

Svpply's numbers have been pretty stuck for a while (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120/Screenshots/tcr0.png) and they're competing in a market with tons of competitors that were doing better than them, specifically Wanelo (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120/Screenshots/-~1c.png) but also Fancy (https://thefancy.com).

You have to become huge to create a VC-backable business on the back of other affiliate programs and it didn't look like they were on that path. This was a good move on their part.

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

#15

Post by droob »

crisnoble wrote: post #9

I am saddened that another small and awesome startup will be sucked into the bureaucratic conglomerate that is eBay/PayPal. On the other hand, I am happy these guys got their payday. They built an awesome site and totally deserve it. Here's to hoping that eBay doesn't screw up the site too badly...

I don't care about their payday if it means another useful tool disappears.

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

#16

Post by joelrunyon »

54mf wrote: post #11
whalesalad wrote: post #5

Zach Klein is killing it. Co-founder of Vimeo, founder of Svpply. He's been involved in lots of other cool gigs too. It's been really fun to follow along with his progress over the last few years. Tons of respect for the guy, and glad that he has done most of this outside of SV. Congrats on the sale!

Oh, absolutely. Between Vimeo, Svpply, DIY, and his Cabin Porn blog (SFW, you should check it out if you haven't yet), he seems to have impeccable taste for things the internet could use. Huge props to him for everything.

http://freecabinporn.com/

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by nascro »

whalesalad wrote: post #5

Zach Klein is killing it. Co-founder of Vimeo, founder of Svpply. He's been involved in lots of other cool gigs too. It's been really fun to follow along with his progress over the last few years. Tons of respect for the guy, and glad that he has done most of this outside of SV. Congrats on the sale!

Zach Klein is a co-founder of Svpply with Ben Pieratt and Eric Jacobsen.

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

#18

Post by beforebeta »

Awesome news, but I kind of felt Svpply had a very broad focus. I'm interested in seeing what some of the newer startups in this segment, with a more specific focus, will fair out (eg. http://lover.ly for weddings, http://www.threadmatcher.com for clothes and footwear, http://www.grandst.com for gadgets).

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by njx »

whalesalad wrote: post #6
54mf wrote: post #2

Sigh. They even had a business model, too. Disappointed. Looking forward to Svpply either (a) being slowly destroyed, or (b) shut down all together so the team can work exclusively on eBay's awful site. Congrats in advance to the team on cashing out 12/24/48 months from now.

When Salesforce.com acquired Heroku I was horrified that things were going to go downhill. Heroku has continued to get better and better as far as i'm concerned! Hopefully the trend of acquihires and product shutdown stops though.

Salesforce has mostly bought things and kept it going
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