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Our new venture…
March 20th, 2006 by philip.wilkinson

Wow, where to begin!

Both myself and Chris came up with the idea for this last Nov (2005) and been working on it ever since. It was one of those ideas that we knew we could be passionate about again, endulge our love of gadgets and shopping, while leveraging past experience with Kelkoo and Ciao.

We have also been following the web 2.0 natural evolution too and found some really great innovations that we want to bring into the shopping space.

At the moment we are both working from our highly exclusive North and South London”home offices” with unlimited food (as long as Ocado stays in business, skype conference calls, iTunes music, instant messenger, free heating (sort of), and great views of nearby houses.

So, what is it and who are you? One step at a time little one… I’ll answer the latter for now.

Philip Wilkinson
Philip is one of the country’s young and upcoming entrepreneurs, and is best known as a founder first of Shopgenie and later of internet heavyweight Kelkoo UK (now part of Yahoo!). Philip has also worked as commercial manager at Telewest in the blueyonder broadband internet division. At 28 years of age, he is trying to avoid becoming 30 at all costs!

Christopher Scollo
Chris is a self-taught technologist with expertise in PHP web site development. Previously a co-author of several PHP programming books for Wrox Press and the VP of Technology at Ciao, he is now turning his talents to the Crowdstorm project. Originally from the US, Chris recently moved to London from Munich, Germany. His favourite hobby is eating, which he has been practising for some time.


One Response  
  • » Crowdstorm: un nouveau venu dans le social shopping » nicolas leroy writes:
    September 7th, 2006 at 7:12 pm

    [...] Crowdstorm est un nouveau site de social shopping, créé par des anciens de Kelkoo et Ciao. Selon les mots du fondateur, Philip Wilkinson: The trick now is helping people find what to buy by leveraging the power of crowds and showing the buzz around products. How many of us go with recommendations from friends or trusted people (colleagues or magazine reviews)? What about when we go into a music store – how many of you go the bestsellers section first to give you an idea of what everyone else is buying? [...]


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