Niraj Shah

Founder of Wayfair

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Niraj Shah is the CEO and Co-founder of Wayfair, a leading e-commerce company based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has a successful track record in entrepreneurship, highlighted by his role in founding Spinners and leading Wayfair to become a prominent player in the online retail industry.

Work Experience 

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Wayfair

  • CEO and Co-founder

    2002 - Current

    Wayfair (NYSE: W) is one of the largest online-only home goods retailers via our five market leading home retail brands - Wayfair, Joss & Main, AllModern, Birch Lane and Perigold. We service customers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. We offer million items from over 20,000 brands. Our customers love us, and we work hard every day to make them love us a little more.

Wayfair is a retail store that offers a wide range of home products such as outdoor, bedding, lighting, and appliances with online services.

Raised $3,078,000,000.00 from T. Rowe Price and ICONIQ Growth.

wayfair.com
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Greylock

  • Entreprenuer in Residence

    2001 - 2001

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.

greylock.com
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iXL

  • COO

    1998 - 2000

A new breed of transformation partner designed to help companies reimagine their business through radical customer-centricity.

sapientrazorfish.com

Spinners

  • CEO and Co-founder

    1995 - 1998

    IT services / Web services company in Boston & NY. Co-founded by myself and Steve Conine in early 1995. Sold to iXL in summer of 1998.

Education 

Investments 

TurningArt

Seed

Total funding: $2.8M

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