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Threadless

Threadless (stylized as threadless) is an online community of artists and an e-commerce website based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2000 by Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart.

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Founded
2000; 26 years ago (2000)
Industry
Retail
Headquarters
401 N. Morgan Chicago, United States
Employees
100
Key people
Jake Nickell (founder, CEO) · Jacob DeHart (founder, CTO 2000–2007) · Tom Ryan (CEO, 2008–2012) · Jeffrey Kalmikoff (CCO, 2003–2009) · Harper Reed (Lead Engineer, 2005–2007; CTO, 2007–2009)
Parent
SkinnyCorp LLC

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History of the company

Features

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Threadless

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples61
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Threadless

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related to Features · 14
Threadless → Artist Shops, Design, Designs, Each, Forums, In, It, Marketing, Redbubble, The, The Simpsons, These, This, Voting
related to history · 10
Threadless → By, Co-founders Jake Nickell, DeHart, Jacob DeHart, Jake Nickell, Nickell, Shortly, T-shirt, T-shirts, The
related to Artist compensation · 6
Threadless → Artist Shops, However, Originally Threadless, Since, T-shirts, With
related to Direct-to-garment printing · 6
Threadless → DTG, DTG T-shirts, In September, The, Threadless Labs, Through Threadless Labs
Key people · 5
Threadless → Harper Reed (Lead Engineer, 2005–2007; CTO, 2007–2009), Jacob DeHart (founder, CTO 2000–2007), Jake Nickell (founder, CEO), Jeffrey Kalmikoff (CCO, 2003–2009), Tom Ryan (CEO, 2008–2012)
related to Retail locations · 4
Threadless → Broadway St, Chicago, In August, In January
related to Book · 3
Threadless → Abrams, In October, Threadless T-shirt
related to Screen printing · 3
Threadless → Most Threadless T-shirts, Plastisol, UV
related to External links · 2
Threadless → Official, Threadless Designs
Employees · 1
Threadless → 100

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designs company community products design artists printed online printing nickell week 2000 chicago artist jake retail t-shirts website based dehart

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ThreadlessEmployees1001.00infobox
ThreadlessFounded2000; 26 years ago (2000)1.00infobox
ThreadlessHeadquarters401 N. Morgan Chicago, United States1.00infobox
ThreadlessIndustryRetail1.00infobox
ThreadlessKey peopleJake Nickell (founder, CEO)1.00infobox
ThreadlessKey peopleJacob DeHart (founder, CTO 2000–2007)1.00infobox
ThreadlessKey peopleTom Ryan (CEO, 2008–2012)1.00infobox
ThreadlessKey peopleJeffrey Kalmikoff (CCO, 2003–2009)1.00infobox
ThreadlessKey peopleHarper Reed (Lead Engineer, 2005–2007; CTO, 2007–2009)1.00infobox
ThreadlessParentSkinnyCorp LLC1.00infobox
ThreadlessProductsApparel/prints – phone cases, shoes, bags, notebooks, etc.1.00infobox
ThreadlessType of sitePrivate1.00infobox
ThreadlessURLwww.threadless.com1.00infobox

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