User:Hikabot/sandbox/Wish (company)

ContextLogic Inc., doing business as Wish, is an online e-commerce company. It was founded in 2010 by Peter Szulczewski (CEO) and Danny Zhang (CTO), former programmers at Google and Yahoo. In 2017, the Wish mobile shopping app claimed over 100 million users on the iOS and Android platforms.

Similar to eBay, small businesses and manufacturers on Wish sell goods directly to consumers at the lowest possible price. In 2017, the store added Wish Outlet, which sells overstocked name-brand goods below the manufacturer's suggested retail price. The store also added Wish Express, which offers faster shipping.

Wish runs four other specialized shopping apps: Geek (electronics-focused), Mama (family-oriented), Cute (beauty-focused), and Home (decor-focused).

History (old version)
In 2010, Wish was created as a wish-list creating app. It prompted users to view similar products on other websites, earning revenue with a Pay-per-click model. In 2013, Wish became an electronic commerce site after asking merchants to host their products directly on the Wish app, with Wish taking a portion of each sale. In late 2015, Business Insider reported that Amazon and Alibaba had approached Wish with acquisition offers in 2015.

History (work in progress)
In 2010, Wish began as a wish list creating app where the company would then ask merchants about ordering a certain number of that item for their customers. They also earned revenue with a Pay-per-click model by advertising on Facebook. In 2013, Wish became an electronic commerce site after asking merchants to host their products directly on the Wish app, with Wish taking a portion of each sale.

Alibaba and Amazon
In late 2015, Business Insider reported that Amazon and Alibaba had approached Wish with acquisition offers for $10 billion but Wish rejected the offers, believing that they could build the startup to at least $100 billion.

Popularity
The shopping app claims to have over 300 million users around the world. It is the #1 shopping app in 42 countries. Wish is the largest advertiser on Facebook and spends nearly $500 million a year on Facebook ads alone.

Wish became the most-downloaded shopping app in the USA in 2017. Over the course of the year, across the iOS App Store and Google Play store, Wish had 32.5 million U.S. downloads compared to Amazon’s 29.2 million.

Partnerships
In 2017, Wish expanded into high-profile partnerships by sponsoring the professional boxing match Mayweather vs. McGregor. During that year, Wish signed a $30-42 million deal to become a sponsor of the Los Angeles Lakers. The partnership is a three-year contract that features the Wish logo as a patch on Lakers' jerseys.

In 2018, Wish announced its integration with multichannel e-commerce platform, Expandly.

Funding
The startup has raised over $1B in funding from several venture capital firms such as Temasek, DST Global, GGV Capital, Founders Fund, and Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures.