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Add Whatnot Eng (Series D Livestream Shopping Leader) blog #1100

Open vincentwhatnot opened 1 year ago

vincentwhatnot commented 1 year ago

Adding Whatnot's Eng blog. But what is Whatnot? Think Twitch meets eBay.

We're the fastest growing marketplace of all time (for 2 years in a row) and we raised a $260M series D just this year in 2022 from DST Global, A16z, YC, Bond Capital, and CapitalG at a $3.7B valuation.

Whatnot is perfectly positioned in the livestream shopping space, which is already big in China, as e-commerce continues to explode (Shopify + Amazon) in tandem with increased consumer video adoption (Youtube + TikTok).

Our tech blog at https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering details some of our technical components in how we're building our product. Attached are a couple example articles sharing what it takes to build a product at the intersection of 1) Social/Entertainment and 2) Marketplace/Shopping, and the articles have garnered tens of thousands of views!

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vincentwhatnot commented 1 year ago

@kilimchoi excuse my ping, but was curious how often you check on PRs to your repo here

vincentwhatnot commented 1 year ago

Hey @kilimchoi, Happy new year! Wanted to check back in, anything need to change here? Thanks!

vincentwhatnot commented 1 year ago

Hi @kilimchoi promise this is my last ping, any follow-up here? 🙏