Poshmark
👤 Manish Chandra (Chandra built Kaboodle, a social-shopping site sold to Hearst in 2007 - he'd cracked community commerce before Poshmark.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Poshmark turned closet-cleaning into social shopping, taking about 20% of $1.8B GMV by owning the community.
Will it work? · our read
Community wins. The social engine drove 100%-plus buyer retention and a 20% take on $1.8B GMV, but Poshmark never turned a profit - and Naver took it private below its IPO price.
01How the money moves
Seller lists closet items free
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Buyers discover via feed and Posh Parties
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Sale closes - Poshmark keeps 20%
02The numbers
$326MFiledFY2021 net revenue
FY2021source:
$326.0 million (FY2021, SEC 10-K)
FY2021, from Poshmark's SEC results release. GMV is what buyers paid, not revenue.
About 18% of $1.8B GMV kept as revenue.
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Poshmark FY2021 Form 10-K (SEC)Poshmark FY2021 results release (SEC, exhibit 99.1)Naver to acquire Poshmark for $1.2B (TechCrunch)Poshmark - founding, Kaboodle, IPO, Naver (Wikipedia)
Revenue $326.0M, GMV $1.8B and 7.6M active buyers are stated directly in Poshmark's FY2021 Form 10-K ('we had revenue of $326.0 million', confirmed by direct fetch of posh-20211231.htm) - FILED, verified first-party. GMV ($1.8B, what buyers paid) is NOT revenue; net revenue was $326M, about an 18% effective take against the 20% listed seller fee. 44.6B interactions figure is from Poshmark's SEC FY2021 results release (8-K exhibit 99.1), consistent with the 10-K numbers. Poshmark was public (NASDAQ: POSH) then taken private by Naver in Jan 2023, so FY2021 is the last clean full-year filing cited here. Founder's Kaboodle/Hearst background and IPO/acquisition details corroborated via Wikipedia and TechCrunch. We never score you.