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^ "Top 100 Businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX". ^ a b Tiku, Nitasha (September 1, 2008). "This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You". "The underlying premise is that we're building a store that you don't need to buy anything from to have fun," Rutledge told Business Insider. Ī Mediocre Corporation launched Meh.com in July 2014, preceded by a Kickstarter campaign describing Meh as a revival of "The Classic Daily Deal Site". Rutledge paid $100,000 for the meh.com domain in June 2014. His first public project after leaving Woot was A Mediocre Corporation, so named, in Rutledge's words, "to lower expectations with the brand". Rutledge left Woot in 2012 citing his greater interest in creating and growing new companies than in managing an Amazon subsidiary. "The goal-based tactical needs of Amazon were unable to appreciate a relatively small artful business model with different growth drivers." Founding of Mediocre Laboratories and meh.com Rutledge largely agreed with these criticisms and took some of the responsibility for them, saying he was "unable to represent our needs in a succinct, convincing manner" within Amazon. It's just too bad it had to stomp out a fun little corner of geek commerce and camaraderie in the process." So all those crazy edges got hacked off until it did fit," wrote CNET blogger Amanda Kooser in 2013. Woot "was just too eccentric to slot smoothly into a big company that thrives on being orderly. Critics claimed that the post-acquisition Woot lost much of its appeal. Īmazon's ownership of Woot was characterized by increasing complexity of the company's simple business model, moving away from the deal-of-the-day approach to a broader collection of flash sales. Louis, moved to the Amazon campus in Seattle. The company's headquarters remained in Carrollton, although the creative and web development team, previously based in St. In June 2010, Amazon acquired Woot for a reported $110 million. To them, every product is perfect." Īfter four years of rapid growth, in 2008 Woot was named the #1 Fastest Growing Private Retail Company in America and the #1 Fastest Growing Private Company in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area by Inc. "We feel that if we don't do a good job describing what's wrong with a product, people will assume we just don't know. To that end, he encouraged the site's copywriters to be entertainingly frank about the shortcomings of the often obsolete products sold on the site. "I wanted it to be a blog and a store at the same time," Rutledge told Inc. In 2004, Rutledge launched Woot as an outgrowth of Synapse Micro, offering a single product a day at steeply discounted prices. In 1994, Rutledge launched his first company, Synapse Micro, wholesaling tech products to primarily mom-and-pop computer shops. MATTS DAILY DEAL PHONETIZER PC
While working at a Dallas-area computer retailer called Resource Concepts, Rutledge began attending the monthly First Saturday swap meets, selling refurbished PC parts from a truck in the wee hours of the morning. Louis, Missouri area to live with his mother, but returned to Texas to avoid paying some $8,000 in traffic tickets. He was an undistinguished high school student. Rutledge grew up in San Antonio and Carrollton, Texas.
4 Founding of Mediocre Laboratories and meh.com.
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