Candon: SidelineSwap Had ~3,000 Buyers and ~1,500 Sellers Last Month
Brendan Candon · 760: This Site Has Sold $3m Worth of Athletes Old Gear · Aug 23, 2017 · at 12:22
Brendan Candon, co-founder and CEO of SidelineSwap, shares monthly transaction participant counts for the peer-to-peer sports gear platform.
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“The, I had probably, you know, 3000 buyers, about 1500 sellers, something in that range.”
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