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Forbes.com
November 30, 2001
Pets.com has new CEO Julie Wainwright to thank for today’s announcement that Amazon.com and venture capital firm Hummer Winblad have together taken a 50% stake in the online pet supply retailer, which launched in November 1998.
Raging Bull
February 7, 2000
Pets.com hails from rather humble beginnings, when in 1994, a savvy 31-year-old entrepreneur, Greg McLemore, registered this first-tier domain name. Not until 1998 did McLemore’s Web design firm, WebMagic, launch Pets.com, incorporating content, community, and commerce. . . . Pets.com
San Jose Mercury News
May 27, 2001
McLemore declined [to sell WebMagic’s Pets.com business]. Within days, the Pets.com founder scored a $10 million investment deal led by the VC firm Hummer Winblad…
Business Wire
February 11, 2000
Pets.com today announced that it has completed an initial public offering of 7,500,000 shares of common stock at an offering price of $11 per share. The shares commenced trading today on Nasdaq under the symbol IPET.
NBC Nightly News
April 14, 2000
WebMagic CEO Greg McLemore speaks on the NBC Nightly News correctly predicting the upcoming demise of hundreds of Internet companies while Amazon.com would survive.
Business Wire
January 20, 2000
Pets.com today announced that it has put up for auction an authentic Pets.com Sock Puppet on Amazon.com Auctions. Direct from Pets.com’s recent Super Bowl commercial shoot, the genuine Sock Puppet, one of only a few originals, is available for bidding
The Star Ledger
Woodsmall . . . works as Pet Lawyer for Pets.com, one of several Web sites created by WebMagic. . ....
The Industry Standard
Former Reel.com CEO Goes to the Dogs — Pets.com founder Greg McLemore says the company had been looking for a...
U.S. News and World Report
In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs are buzzing about pets. ‘It’s one of the last great consumer spaces for the Internet left...
The Industry Standard
Pets.com's investments from Amazon and Hummer Winblad put the 5-month-old pet content, commerce and community site well ahead of its...
San Francisco Business Times
Pets.com is only the latest venture to be spun out of McLemore’s Internet e-commerce incubator WebMagic. Previously, McLemore helped launch...
New York Daily News
The trick is to find the first site with information about your interest. . . . http://www.dogs.com/ brought up the...
Yahoo! News
This week marks the launch of Pets.com, one of the most ambitious online commercial pet sites to date. . ....
The ZDNet News Channel
At WebMagic’s Toys.com . . . find shopping hints and buying guides designed to make it easier to find the...
Inter@ctive Week
Several (toy) companies have launched on the Web in the past year, from Internet-only resellers such as eToys Inc. and...
Playthings
A subsidiary of WebMagic, an Altadena, Calif.-based Web design firm, www.toys.com was launched in December 1996. Since then, toy-curious Web...