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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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Legend
Kyle Hoff Built Floyd From One Leg - Then Designed It to Stay
Founder · Executive · Designer

Kyle Hoff Built Floyd From One Leg - Then Designed It to Stay

An architect, a Craigslist apartment and a refusal to buy one more disposable table produced a $256,000 Kickstarter. A decade and an acquisition later, Hoff is still asking the same useful question: will this piece survive the next move?

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Company
Floyd Sold You Half a Table - Then Built a Furniture Company for People Who Move
Consumer · Ecommerce

Floyd Sold You Half a Table - Then Built a Furniture Company for People Who Move

A $500 blue prototype became a $256,000 Kickstarter, then a venture-backed test of whether furniture can survive both your next apartment and the economics of shipping heavy things. Floyd's useful lesson is not minimalism. It is how to turn one stubborn design rule into a product system.

modular-furniture · direct-to-consumerRead →
Company
IKEA
Ecommerce · Consumer · Logistics

IKEA

How a Swedish teenager's mail-order side hustle became the world's largest furniture retailer - and why the whole thing runs on flat boxes, cheap Allen keys, and a foundation that answers to no shareholder.

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