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Jeff Kolovson and the Business of Making Risk Disappear
Before Faire could connect shopkeepers and brands across borders, its co-founder learned operations the blunt way: sixty futons, thirty-six hours, and no room for excuses.
Arnold Engel
Arnold Engel is the co-founder and CEO of Tundra, a zero-commission wholesale marketplace he started in 2017 with his wife Katie Engel after years running a global supply chain company. A Dartmouth economics graduate and former McKinsey consultant, Engel built Tundra to hand independent retailers the same buying power as big-box giants - no transaction fees, no markups, free shipping. The platform grew to more than two million ready-to-ship products and over 30,000 retailers, raising about $42 million across rounds including a $26M Series B led by Emergence Capital in 2021.