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

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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.

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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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