Whatnot’s Grant Lafontaine: “Creating an eBay for millennials”
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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Grant LaFontaine, co-founder of Whatnot, to talk about creating the successor to eBay (3:40), the collectibles boom (7:50), his first startup (12:30), his early interest in marketplaces (14:25), working at Youtube (17:40), launching Whatnot in 2019 (23:45), starting with Funkopops (27:55), what’s happening in China (33:30), what works about live shopping (35:40), the Pokemon phenomenon (41:15), luring star investors (45:15), his worst day (49:15), and the future of eBay (51:20).Sign up for 50% off The Times and The Sunday Times with at www.thetimes.co.uk/dannyinthevalley Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.