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The Largest Camera Store in Texas Bet Its Future on the One Thing Amazon Can't Ship
It started as a repair bench in 1976. Fifty years later, Texas's largest camera store is still winning by doing the things a shipping box can't: fixing gear, developing film, and teaching people how to actually use the cameras they buy.
The Phone in Your Drawer Is CompAsia's Next Supply Chain
CompAsia built a regional business around the awkward life between a phone's first owner and the landfill - turning trade-ins, quality checks, subscriptions and resale into one circular system.
Best Buy’s Real Product Isn’t the Gadget. It’s the Confidence to Take It Home.
The yellow tag survived the internet by turning stores into service hubs, showrooms and a human help desk. Now Best Buy is adding a marketplace and an advertising business to a machine built for the awkward moments after checkout.
CarMax
The company that killed the haggle in 1993 now sells three-quarters of a million used cars a year - and is trying to prove that a car lot can also be a website.
Syarah
Syarah is Riyadh-based online marketplace for buying and selling new and used cars in Saudi Arabia. It handles the full transaction online - sourcing, 200-point inspection, refurbishment, financing, warranty and kingdom-wide home delivery - and lets buyers keep a car for a 10-day trial with a money-back guarantee. Founded in 2015, it has grown from a classifieds site into the country's leading digital used-car retailer, raising more than $82 million in total funding, including a $60 million Series C in 2024.
Reconext
Reconext is a global aftermarket lifecycle services company that takes returned, broken, or retired electronics - phones, laptops, set-top boxes, AI servers, point-of-sale gear - and gives them a second life. Through repair, refurbishment, testing, trade-in, asset recovery, and IT asset disposition, the company keeps devices and components circulating instead of heading to landfill. Headquartered in Grapevine, Texas and operating roughly 22 facilities across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Reconext serves manufacturers, carriers, retailers, insurers, and data centers.
Krzysztof Marzec
Krzysztof Marzec is Co-Founder of Trove, the branded recommerce platform powering more than 75% of the U.S. branded resale market. Originally founded as Yerdle in 2012 and rebranded to Trove in 2016, the company has raised over $153 million in funding and serves clients including Patagonia, Levi's, Lululemon, Canada Goose, and Carhartt. With a background spanning commodity futures trading at Geneva Trading USA and early-career roles at Northern Trust and Morningstar, Marzec brings a rare blend of financial markets discipline and entrepreneurial technology vision to the fast-growing recommerce sector.
Trove
Trove is the Oakland-based recommerce platform that powers branded resale and trade-in programs for retailers like Patagonia, Levi's, Lululemon, REI, Canada Goose, and Carhartt. Its software, operations, and AI-driven pricing engine turn used goods into a profitable new sales channel, helping brands extend product life and capture value from items already in customers' closets.