The story behind the $500M sale of Diapers.com

Vinit Bharara, Diapers.com, Brand (branding), eCommerce, Physical Product, Sell Your Business, Web 1.0
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In 2004 Vinit Bharara and his childhood friend created an e-commerce company that was best known for selling baby products on Diapers.com.

Amazon felt threatened. They retaliated. And eventually bought them out.

Today he’s back with a new startup called Some Spider Studios. I’ll ask him about that, the acquisition, and so much more in this interview.

Vinit Bharara is the co-founder of Diapers.com which sells everything baby related and was sold to Amazon for $500M.

Vinit Bharara

Diapers.com

Vinit Bharara is the co-founder of Diapers.com which sells everything baby related and was sold to Amazon for $500M.

Andrew: Hey, everyone, my name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses, and I do it for an audience of real entrepreneurs. And you know it because so many people who I interviewed now are people who’ve listened to interviews and then come back and say, “Here’s what I did often while listening to Mixergy.” And I’m just also beyond doing these interviews, I’m a fan of business, and so I read stories about business as much as possible, and I can’t get enough of it. And one of my favorite is a book called “The Everything Store” about the founding of Amazon. And there were a few jaw-dropping moments in there like the story of diapers.com in there.

To be honest, I knew that Amazon had purchased diapers.com. I didn’t realize how big the business got. I didn’t realize that it got so big that Amazon was threatened by it. I didn’t...

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