Unicorns 200/229 – OfferUp

Unicorns 200/229 – OfferUp


OfferUp

Founder/s: Arean van Veelen, Nick Huzar
Key people: Nick Huzar (Co-Founder & CEO), Arean van Veelen (Strategic Advisor & Co-founder), Ian Fliflet (VP Marketing), Shiraz Cupala (VP Product Management), Mulloy Morrow (Lead Data Scientist) and Yashodhra Painumkal (Technical Recruiter)
Number of employees: 101 – 250

OfferUp is changing how people buy and sell locally by making it as easy as taking and sharing a photo from your phone. We are a rapidly growing team in Seattle looking to bring on more passionate, motivated, and curious people who want to be a part of our fast growing marketplace.

The company is said to have surpassed the early days of eBay in terms of sales volume, and its users are spending the same amount of time on OfferUp in a day as they do on Snapchat or Instagram.

As new fathers, OfferUp founders Nick Huzar and Arean van Veelen suddenly found themselves with more stuff than they wanted and less stuff than they needed. They weren’t alone. Americans spend trillions of dollars each year on new stuff, billions each year on storage units, and every day, they throw tons of their stuff away.