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Jet.com is a privately held American e-commerce company headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, launched in July 2015. The company was cofounded by entrepreneur Marc Lore (who previously sold his company, Diapers.com, to ecommerce site Amazon.com) along with Mike Hanrahan and Nate Faust, and has raised $220 million over three venture rounds from firms including Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, Accel Partners, and Alibaba Group. The site was publicly launched on July 21, 2015, with a beta testing program available months before. The main distinguishing feature of the site involves the real-time pricing algorithm. ==History== After Lore sold Diapers.com to Amazon in November 2010, he did not initially plan on starting a new venture and "retired" in Northern California. While in Northern California, Lore realized users may be willing to pay less and accept longer wait times on obtaining online goods. The flaw he saw in other competitors is catering only to wealthier customers "who care more about convenience than value." Lore set out to create a site that takes the membership model of Costco and Sam's Club and bring it to the e-commerce world. He began to peddle the idea, and after lunch with a partner at Accel Ventures, Lore was promised $1 million in seed capital to start the site. In addition to launching a site with such characteristics, Lore wanted to create a company with a culture unlike the secretive, competitive culture seen at competitors such as Amazon and Walmart. The site launched with an initiative known as Jet Insider, a means to spread word about the company prelaunch. Once users sign up, they are given six months of the service for free and a link to refer friends and family to sign up. Referrers were given prizes such as lifetime memberships or five year memberships while the top referrers were given stock options. By January 2015, over 250,000 users had signed up for the service. Beta testers reported mixed reviews on the site's benefits.〔 As of July 2015, the site had 4.5 million products available for sale. After a beta launch, the site was officially launched on July 21, 2015.〔 In November 2015, Jet.com raised $500 million in venture capital led by Fidelity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jet.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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