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First a little bit of context and history: The online Flash Sales model was invented in France in 2001 to work around a law preventing resellers to do clearance sales outside of the government prescribed windows. There are loopholes in that law and that is why Flash Sales were invented. Before Flash Sales were online,…

After countless interviews with candidates at The RealReal, I found out that the best way to describe the context in which they will evolve here is through the thorough explanation of the three eras of a start-up. I love the Rule of three. I learned it the hard way: Never start enumerating more than three things…

So I have been starting in this new CTO Job… At The Real Real. Last time I felt so good about an ecommerce Business model was when I left Microsoft in 2007 to join the inventor of Flash Sales vente-privee.com. 6 years later, when I thought that the eCommerce industry could hardly find new ways…