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Nick Swinmurn
American businessman
Nick Swinmurn is the founder of Zappos.
Nick swinmurn bio
He started the company in 1999. He left in 2006, before it reached $1 billion sales in 2008, and was sold to Amazon in 2009.[1]
Early life and education
Swinmurn was born in England and moved to the United States at the age of seven, growing up in the Bay Area of California.
His father was an engineer and his mother was a teacher. He graduated from Los Altos High School and proceeded to earn a degree in Film Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995.[2] After college, Swinmurn initially worked in ticket sales for the San Bernardino Stampede minor-league baseball team and then for the San Diego Padres.
He then returned to northern California and worked at Autoweb.com, saying he was inspired by the 'anything is possible' attitude of the founders. He left Autoweb in 1998 and considered other options such as running a portal for students before finally deciding