Pakible
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Pakible was a San Francisco custom-packaging platform founded in 2015 by Nick Carson, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 batch. Its software made it 'insanely easy' to design, price and manufacture custom product packaging, with in-house automation, transparent pricing bids from a supplier network, and orders from 25 to 2,000 boxes shipped in under 10 days. Over 2,000 customers used Pakible, including Samsung, Reddit, Soylent, the Golden State Warriors, Uber and Twitter.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Nick Carson founded Pakible in San Francisco in 2015 and joined Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch.
- Acquired by Lumi
In January 2017 Pakible was acquired by Lumi, also a packaging supply-chain company, to integrate its technology and expand Lumi's offerings.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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