Faire is an online wholesale marketplace for local retailers to source products from thousands of makers without risk of getting stuck with unsold inventory.

Mappedin and Faire's co-founder and CTO Marcelo Cortes discuss the Faire origin story and how they’re revolutionizing the way that retailers shop.

0:43 - The Faire founders story
3:55 - The explosion of online data
4:37 - In-store versus online
5:56 - Bringing the benefits of e-commerce to brick and mortar
7:03 - The makers and what they offer
8:20 - The proof in the numbers
9:14 - Solving the inventory algorithms
10:26 - How to get started with Faire

To watch this Speaker Series on Youtube, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXhZi_DQc5Q