By John Matthew Simon “We never want to become static,” said Jeffrey Guerrero, the graphics coordinator at Threadless, as he gave us a tour of their Madison Street madhouse on Chicago’s near west side. Founded in 2000 by Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart, the e-commerce platform and artist community is the longtime darling of Chicago’s
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By Amy A. Ross It took Threadless six years of success to persuade its founder and CEO, Jake Nickell, that it was capable of becoming something more than side-project. Although the rapid growth of his business venture had provided proof that he did in fact “know how to build e-commerce websites,” it took a little
By Jacob Nelson Before Threadless grew into the global, hundred-employee company it is today, it was Jake Nickell’s side project. Nickell started Threadless, an ecommerce website where artists submit t-shirt designs that are voted on and, depending on their popularity, printed and sold, while he was a sophomore in college. It wasn’t until years after