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Ren Ito and the Art of Changing Course
He trained for law, spent years in diplomacy and helped take Mercari abroad. At Sakana AI, Ren Ito brings that habit of crossing borders to a new question: how should Japan build its own future in AI?
James Kawas Keeps Finding the Work Inside Other People’s Closets
Before Flyp became a toolkit for thousands of resellers, Kawas learned the secondhand trade by trying to sell a PlayStation 3, skipping class to send business emails and building a marketplace in two days.
Thomas Rivas
Thomas Rivas is the founder and CEO of Vendoo, a software platform that helps online resellers list and manage inventory across marketplaces like eBay, Poshmark, Etsy, Mercari and Facebook. He started selling online as a high schooler in 2007, kept selling through college at the University of Maryland, and turned the tedium of posting the same item to a dozen sites into a company that went through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch. Vendoo has grown to roughly 50-60 employees, reached profitability, and has been used to create tens of millions of listings.
Vendoo
Vendoo is a crosslisting and inventory-management platform for online resellers. From one dashboard, sellers post a single item to 10+ marketplaces - eBay, Poshmark, Etsy, Mercari, Depop, Facebook Marketplace, Grailed, Vinted and more - and the software handles the repetitive parts: detecting a sale and auto-delisting the item everywhere else, tracking inventory, sending offers, and calculating fees and profit. Founded in 2017 and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, Vendoo says it serves more than 81,000 resellers who have created over 26 million listings on the platform.
Flyp
Flyp is a San Francisco software company that builds affordable, all-in-one tools for online resellers. Its Crosslister moves a single listing across Poshmark, eBay, Mercari, Depop, Etsy and Facebook Marketplace, while its Poshmark bot automates closet sharing, offers to likers, follow/unfollow and CAPTCHA solving. Founded in 2018 by James Kawas and Dani Arnaout, Flyp positions itself as the enterprise-grade toolkit for the roughly hundreds of thousands of 'power resellers' who move used goods for a living - at $9/month after a long free trial, undercutting rivals that charge $100+.