• They’ve started a successful business, but they’ve also started to save an industry — traditional bookbinding — in San Francisco that was on the brink of total extinction.
• Shopify chief executive Tobias Lütke • Regarding the founders of DODOcase, a company that won the site’s competition (and a $100,000 prize) for having the largest sales of any retailer. The case, sculpted to look like a classy Moleskine notebook case and hand-designed by traditional bookbinders, costs $60, is designed with ultra-high-quality materials and doubles as a stand. They sold 10,000 in just a couple of months, despite a lengthy wait between sale and delivery. And it can count the founder of Twitter amongst its fans. You do the math. source

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