James KawasCo Founder

United States - San Francisco Bay Area

Based out of San Francisco, James Kawas is the Co-Founder & CEO of Flyp, a venture backed tech company putting an end to landfill waste by using AI to resell it through millions of online sellers. James previously started Saily Inc, a company that developed one of the top-ranking secondhand shopping apps in the US with millions of downloads. The Saily team joined Mercari in 2018 to help take the company public at a $4 Billion valuation. A recipient of the $100K Thiel Fellowship grant and a college dropout, the 24-year-old's work has attracted press attention from around the world and has been featured in publications like Forbes, The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg Businessweek, Mashable, and VICE. James is on the list of Forbes 30 Under 30 and has been honored "Young Entrepreneur Of The Year" in 2016 by Entrepreneur Magazine.

Industry expertise: Secondhand marketplaces, Classifieds, Consignment, Resale, E-commerce, Local marketplaces, Poshmark, eBay, Mercari, Offer Up, Depop, Craigslist, Thred Up, Facebook Marketplace, LetGo, Naspers OLX, etc...