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SoleSavy is a platform aiming to foster a community of sneaker enthusiasts who are not interested in reselling.
The platform recently raised $2 million in seed funding, as part of a round closed at the end of 2020.
For $33 dollars a month, SoleSavy members are granted entry into an exclusive online community and given the tools to successfully buy sneakers online.
Sneaker enthusiast group SoleSavy raises $2M, setting the stage for a community-driven commerce boom
SoleSavy, a community built around buying hot sneakers and related items that are increasingly hard to acquire at retail, raised $2 million in a round that closed late last year. SoleSavy is a group of communities that is currently mostly hosted on Slack.
SoleSavy’s co-founders Dejan Pralica and Justin Dusanj founded the company in 2018 as a paid community for collectors and enthusiasts seeking pairs that were getting snapped up by bots or resellers. Pralica previously co-founded Kicks Deals, a sneaker shipping site focused on less than retail pricing and Dusanj is the former director of Operations at New Age Sports, a Nike retailer.
Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 2:31 p.m. UTC
Tiny Capital’s Wilkinson Shows Interest in Bitcoin
Andrew Wilkinson, the multimillionaire co-founder of tech-focused holding group Tiny Capital, ignited a small firestorm on Twitter Saturday merely by inquiring about bitcoin.
Of course, asking a simple question doesn t mean that Wilkinson, who has been described as the Warren Buffett of startups, will ever buy a single bitcoin or even a blockchain-related startup, but it was enough to make CoinDesk Director of Research Noelle Acheson say, Wow!
It also started a flood of responses on Twitter mostly seeking to convince Wilkinson that bitcoin is the future of finance and a better version of gold.
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Andrew Wilkinson is modeling his growing collection of small technology companies on Warren Buffett s Berkshire Hathaway.
The Tiny Capital chief owns about 30 businesses including Girlboss, MetaLab, and Dribbble, and aims to close a handful of acquisitions each year.
Wilkinson emulates Berkshire s decentralized structure by hiring independent CEOs for his businesses.
He also follows Buffett s example by offering fast, simple deals with minimal debt and long-term, hands-off ownership to businesses he wants to acquire.
Andrew Wilkinson is building a collection of small companies in the mold of Warren Buffett s Berkshire Hathaway, with one big difference virtually all of them are in the technology sector.
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Andrew Wilkinson didnât even know what a family office was until people started using it in reference to Tiny Capital, his tech-focused holding group.
A college dropout from Vancouver, British Columbia, Wilkinson, 34, wasnât steeped in the ways of the ultra-wealthy when he started Tiny five years ago. The self-taught web designer founded an agency soon after high school that grew rapidly building interfaces for Silicon Valley clients such as Pinterest Inc.