Paul Johnson

Experience

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  Discount Guitar Warehouse

  Apr 2007 - Sept 2011

  Founder

  With a passion for music and an entrepreneurial spirit I created my first business selling Musical instruments online. I started the company with two thousand dollars on a credit card while still in college. With limited access to capital during the recession I was able to grow revenue to hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales. In addition to our online presence we opened a retail music store so we could offer music lessons and have access to premium brands for our online business.It was during this time I fell in love with e-commerce and technology. Technology was a necessity to keep up with the changing pace of e-commerce. We launched our 1st website with a 3rd party company and then I rebuilt it using open source technologies. I also implemented an open source point of sale and inventory management system for our retail store. Show less

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  Plug IT LLC

  Oct 2011 - Jan 2013

  Co Founder

  On a very small budget and in less than two years I was able to take Plugit from a small one person operation in my garage to a full scale business operating out of 17,000 sq/ft warehouse with 8 employees. Our business focused on purchasing large amounts of liquidation merchandise, processing the merchandise and reselling it on e-commerce marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon. We developed standardized procedures for handling large amounts of unsorted merchandised and created custom software solutions to list and manage the inventory on various e-commerce platforms. Show less

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  Seller Labs

  Jan 2013 - May 2017

  Co Founder and CEO

  I co-founded Seller Labs with Brandon Checketts in 2013. As CEO I helped take the company from a bootstrapped startup to a leading e-commerce solutions provider. In 2017 I exited Seller Labs to focus 100% of my energy on Snagshout.com.

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  Snagshout

  Jul 2017 - now

  Chief Executive Officer