Jul 31, 2025With Wayfair Shares On A Tear, Its Cofounders Are Billionaires Once MoreIt’s taken three years and an aggressive turnaround plan, but the two moguls behind the online furniture giant have reclaimed their billionaire titles.ByThomas GallagherFormer Contributor
Sep 10, 2020RH CEO Gains $1 Billion In Months On High-Flying StockThe luxury furniture retailer is raking in record profits as housebound Americans invest in their living spaces.ByLauren DebterFormer Staff
May 5, 2020Wayfair’s Surging Sales Add Billions To Founders’ FortunesThe online retailer and its two cofounders have emerged as clear winners of the coronavirus pandemic, as buyers stuck inside upgrade their living spaces.ByLauren DebterFormer Staff
Apr 6, 2020Wayfair’s Cofounders Are Billionaires Again After Stock SkyrocketsApparently, the coronavirus pandemic has housebound Americans shelling out to upgrade their living spaces.ByLauren DebterFormer Staff
Feb 14, 2020Plummeting Machete: Down 53%, Avoid Wayfair StockWayfair lacks a clear path to profitability. Avoid this falling machete.ByPeter CohanSenior Contributor
Jul 19, 2019Amazon, Microsoft, Wayfair: Employees Stage Internal Protests Against Working With ICEContracts with immigration agencies are coming under increasing scrutiny. ByRachel SandlerFormer Staff
Jun 26, 20193 Reasons To Sell Wayfair On Today's Employee WalkoutFor $86,000 in profit, Wayfair management is putting its reputation on the line. That does not sound like a good cost/benefit analysis to me.ByPeter CohanSenior Contributor
Jun 25, 2019Wayfair Co-Founder: Company Is Not 'Discriminatory' Or 'Political'Employees are walking off the job Wednesday afternoon.ByLisette Voytko-BestFormer Staff
Mar 31, 2019Wayfair Joins The 'Online-Only' March Into Physical StoresThe e-commerce home furnishings giant finally announced the opening of its first store, joining the march of once-online-only brands into brick-and-mortar. It's unlikely to be its last. But physical stores by themselves won't address the challenging issues in Wayfair's underlying business model.BySteve DennisSenior Contributor
Oct 8, 2018The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech UnicornBen Chestnut and Dan Kurzius have built billion-dollar fortunes by helping save small businesses the old-fashioned way: email. ByAlex KonradFormer Staff
Oct 3, 2018Forbes Releases 37th Annual Forbes 400 Ranking of the Richest AmericansThe Cutoff for The Forbes 400 List Hits a Record High of $2.1 billion ON THE COVER: Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, shares how the company filled a gap in hospitality NEW YORK (October 3, 2018) – The billionaires on Forbes’ 2018 ranking of the 400 richest people in America, (“The Forbes [...]ByForbes Press ReleasesForbes Staff
Oct 3, 2018Meet The 15 Newest Members Of The 2018 Forbes 400Entrepreneurial spirit reigns among the newcomers: All but three who appear on the list of the richest Americans for the first time are self-made.ByLauren DebterFormer Staff
Feb 25, 2018Wayfair, StitchFix And Pure-Play E-commerce's Scaling ProblemRecent earnings announcements from online-only retail brands have created increasing future earnings concerns. Many face the difficult equation of rising customer acquisition costs and declining marginal customer lifetime value. Some of these diseconomies of scale may be insurmountable.BySteve DennisSenior Contributor
Jan 27, 2017The Schools That Graduate The Most Billion-Dollar Startup FoundersA degree from a top school is no guarantee that your startup will become a unicorn. But according to a new study, 172 of the 498 entrepreneurs who founded or co-founded the world’s 250 so-called “unicorns” got degrees from just 10 top universities.BySusan AdamsFormer Staff
Aug 15, 2014Wayfair Reveals The Inevitable: It's Going PublicWhat will the valuation be? Past founding rounds put a $2 billion figure on the company (for 2.2 times sales).ByAbram BrownFormer Staff
Apr 16, 2014How Wayfair Sells Nearly $1 Billion Worth Of Sofas, Patio Chairs And Cat PlaygroundsWayfair is the Web's Sears, Roebuck. But its business is as much data mining as retailing.ByAbram BrownFormer Staff