When a successful young ecommerce site is all about design, one might expect the founder to have a very designed, structured life. In some ways, that’s true for Jason Goldberg, co-founder and CEO of design darling Fab. Goldberg begins every day with a 30-minute workout and gets to the office at 8 a.m. just in time for a product meeting with the team in Pune, India. And after a long day at the office — he’s usually there til 8 p.m. — he typically goes out to dinner and then takes his dog Rupee for a walk.
SEE ALSO: Fab.com: Behind the Design of the Sleek Ecommerce SiteBut there’s also an element of chaos, and we learned quickly that there’s no such thing as a “typical day” for Goldberg. Just last month, he got married (the couple registered for marriage equality in lieu of blenders and towels) and parlayed his honeymoon into a trip to the Fab office in India. He returned stateside for a week, so he could have a board meeting and a global all-hands meeting, and on Sunday he headed to Berlin for a week to visit Fab offices, before heading to Tokyo to check out trends in the design-forward city. Such is the life of a busy CEO, but you’ll see in the photos below that Goldberg does it all in style. Mashable followed Goldberg around for a day in Fab’s West Village digs — you’ll be jealous of the design-forward workspace.
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“The big challenge for me is making sure that as we grow the company and the number of people involved in projects, that things are still Fab,” Goldberg told Mashable. The company has 200 employees in New York and 400 worldwide.
Fab is now selling 3.75 products per minute to more than 7 million members.
“The website is as well designed as the stuff we’re selling, which is as well designed as the team behind it,” says Goldberg.
The company is on track to do $150 million in sales this year.
“My design philosophy is that every pixel has a place — I’m very personally involved and to this day, I still look to make sure the experience really is what we want it to be,” says Goldberg.
“We’re looking for design lovers everywhere, all the people who appreciate and love design,” says Goldberg of the Fab audience.
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“The big challenge for me is making sure that as we grow the company and the number of people involved in projects, that things are still Fab,” Goldberg told Mashable. The company has 200 employees in New York and 400 worldwide.
Fab is now selling 3.75 products per minute to more than 7 million members.
“The website is as well designed as the stuff we’re selling, which is as well designed as the team behind it,” says Goldberg.
The company is on track to do $150 million in sales this year.
“My design philosophy is that every pixel has a place — I’m very personally involved and to this day, I still look to make sure the experience really is what we want it to be,” says Goldberg.
“We’re looking for design lovers everywhere, all the people who appreciate and love design,” says Goldberg of the Fab audience.
Top photo courtesy of Fab; gallery photos by Mashable photo editor Nina Frazier
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