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“Being a scrappy startup, it’s funny to see some of our designers forklift once
in a while,” chuckles Chieh Huang, CEO of Boxed. Unlike most of Silicon Valley,
which seems obsessed with multi-billion-dollar valuations for whatever ephemera
the kids are into these days, Boxed moves just as many atoms as bits. It’s an
online store that, like Amazon, will deliver whatever you buy to your door—but
only in bulk. If Amazon is the online Walmart, Boxed is the online Costco.



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