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by war1025 2128 days ago
I had no idea they were a 20 year old company.

I assumed they were a fresh startup around 2015 or so when they started getting a lot of media traction.

Maybe I was just out of the loop, but that's really surprising to me.

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2015 was the year you personally started paying attention:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=z...

I disagree this is broadly unknown outside of a niche...

Even if the company practises seem to have had a knock-on effect. .. if the article is accurate of course.

Indeed, and they've been owned by Amazon since 2009.
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