Airbrite
Airbrite is an e-commerce Software company that helps small businesses and crowdfunding graduates process orders. Founded in 2012, when it graduated from the incubator Y Combinator, it is backed by such venture capital investors as YC's financing arm, Ron Conway's SV Angel and others. The company is based in San Francisco, California.
Airbrite was founded by Chris Tsai, Brian Nguyen and Peter Shih. IT Works with such early-stage hardware companies as Pebble and August Smart Lock. The company is part of a wave of startups processing orders for mobile- and tablet-based commerce. It uses Javascript and Node.js as the basis for its Open API.
Controversial comments by co-founder
After Peter Shih, co-founder of Airbrite, made disparaging remarks AbOUT San Francisco ("all the girls who are obviously 4's and behave like they are 9's"; "I hate how the weather here is like a woman who is constantly PMSing"; "Why the [...] would I want to go anywhere if I have to choose between spending an hour on a bus where homeless people publicly defecate or an equally enraging hour of circling the same 4 street blocks trying to find parking on a 45 degree hill"), he issued an apology. "There are no excuses for my poor judgment, so I make none", he wrote, "I take full responsibility that this mistake was completely my own. I don't deserve any forgiveness for the stupidity of my actions and words, but I sincerely hope to demonstrate by my future behavior to humbly build up and not tear down the communities and people around me."
See also
- Subscription business model
- Electronic commerce