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Lukasz Gadowski (Spreadshirt): The Success of Spreadshirt and the Role of Communities


MCPC 2007


Lukasz Gadowski is CEO and founder of the t-shirt company SpreadShirt Inc., Germany. He established Spreadshirt in 2002 without any major capital and managed the business' expansion across Europe and into the USA. Spreadshirt.com is now one of the leading providers of custom-made online apparel, allowing individuals and companies to open an online shop and sell t-shirts and other custom printed items without any upfront costs. Spreadshirt offers over 80 printable products for customization.

Spreadshirt's enormous success as an internet company is vividly illustrated, by a community that has grown to over 300,000 existing Spreadshirt shop partners, who have created and sold over 500,000 custom products worldwide.

Awards:
2002: Futuresax
2004: Hewlett Packard Business Innovation Award
2005: nominated for the category “Aufsteiger des Deutschen Gründerpreises” (German internet prize)
2006: Futuresax

> Spreadshirt has recently made it into the Top 5 European Growth list "Europe's 500".


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