“According to Jose Mendoza, the company’s affable warehouse manager of two decades, about 65% of the inventory comes from shuttered tech companies.”
Better Source is a $20 million business built on dead startups. A $4,890 privacy cubicle goes for $3,295 after the startup that bought it runs out of money. Darryl Denny started during the dot-com crash, walking into padlocked buildings with family photos still on the desks. The VCs lose the bet, the workers lose the job, and the liquidator takes the Aeron chairs.