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Howard Rosenberg and the value of being returned
A childhood among unsold shoes gave Howard Rosenberg an early education in inventory. At B-Stock, he built a business around a question retailers would rather avoid: what happens to everything that comes back?
Grant Street Group and the art of making government boring
A Pittsburgh bond auction put Grant Street Group on the map. Its more revealing invention came later: software that lets a tax office spend less time arguing with its own systems.
Pickles Auctions makes a business of second chances
A fleet car, a tired excavator, an EV with a battery to prove. Pickles turns used assets into somebody else’s next purchase - and the hard part happens before the bidding starts.
ATG wants a cut of your next great find
The company behind The Saleroom and LiveAuctioneers has moved from auction listings to payments, shipping and an $85 million bet on vintage furniture. Its next test is turning all that activity into better profits.
Phillips
Phillips has spent 230 years learning how to make a room want something. Its modern trick is turning that theater into a focused global marketplace for art, design, watches and jewels - without trying to sell everything else.
B-Stock
B-Stock turned retail's awkward back room - returns, trade-ins and excess goods - into a data-rich B2B market. Its real product is not the pallet. It is a faster, more legible second life for inventory.
eBay
eBay is one of the original internet marketplaces, a global platform where roughly 136 million buyers shop across hundreds of millions of listings in about 190 markets. Born in 1995 as a hobby site called AuctionWeb, it pioneered the idea that strangers could trust strangers enough to trade online. Three decades later it has reinvented itself around enthusiast categories, certified collectibles, and recommerce - selling the new, the rare, and the gloriously second-hand.