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JAMES REINHART

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We built the entire infrastructure from scratch — the photography, the pricing algorithms, the warehouses. Nobody else wanted to do the hard, unglamorous work.

entrepreneurshipoperationsPodcast Interview, 2020

Going public was not the finish line. It was permission to think in decades instead of quarters.

ipoleadershipPost-IPO Interview, 2021

Resale is not a trend. It is an inevitability. Every brand will have a resale strategy within 10 years.

fashionindustryForbes Interview, 2021

The future of fashion is circular. The linear model of make, wear, dispose is just not sustainable.

fashionsustainabilityInterview, 2021

We process more secondhand clothing than anyone in the world. Our clean-out bags are basically a Trojan horse for changing consumer behavior.

business-modelgrowthConference Talk, 2022

I started ThredUp because my closet was full of stuff I never wore. Turns out 73 billion garments end up in landfills every year. That felt like a problem worth solving.

founding-storymissionSXSW Talk, 2019