Shopagram
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Shopagram was a Y Combinator Winter 2014 startup founded by Jamal Ashraf (CEO) and David Petrie, billed as a 'next generation home shopping network' — a mobile-era QVC. It raised a $120K seed round and was a YC W14 Demo Day exhibitor in March 2014.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and funded
Shopagram is founded (from earlier project SocialBox) and enters Y Combinator's Winter 2014 batch, raising a $120K seed round and presenting at Demo Day on March 25, 2014.
- Inactive
Y Combinator lists Shopagram as 'Inactive'; founder Jamal Ashraf's bio describes Shopagram (YC W14) as running 2014–2020, and the shopagram.co site is dead.
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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