Trade: Shopping Platform Whatnot Valued at 20 Billion Dollars

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    "url": "https://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter/handel-shopping-plattform-whatnot-wird-mit-20-milliarden-dollar-bewertet/100245700.html",
    "title": "Trade: Shopping Platform Whatnot Valued at 20 Billion Dollars - Handelsblatt",
    "excerpt": "Düsseldorf. The live shopping platform Whatnot has received an additional 545 million dollars in growth capital from investors. The company is now valued at 20 billion dollars – almost twice as much as a year ago. Whatnot started in 2019 with auctions of Pokémon trading cards; last year, merchants already generated eight billion dollars in sales via the platform. The company itself achieved a revenue of one billion dollars from commissions. \"I think we will double both again this year,\" said co-founder Grant LaFontaine recently in an interview with Handelsblatt. He has equally ambitious growth targets for Germany.",
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