27
Feb

Make Mistakes (please, you’re designed to)

The twitterverse is all abuzz today about Fab’s “Make Mistakes” poster and tee shirt.

I wanted to take a minute to try to clear up a few things about this.

  1. Make Mistakes is a very common phrase. It’s one of our favorites here at Fab. I’ve been saying it for years. It’s one of our company mantras.  I actually got it from our CTO, Nishith, who has this on his wall in our Pune offices.



  2. @Mike_FTW is upset that our Fab Make Mistakes poster may have some resemblance to his. To be honest, we never saw his or even heard of his before we put ours up on Fab today.

    Fab’s Make Mistakes

     

    Mike’s Poster:

  3. I’ve tweeted to @Mike_FTW suggesting he call me or email me to sort this out. 

  4. At Fab we believe this make mistakes stuff; but learn from them and adjust quickly. Yo Mike!  Here’s what we’re going to do. Let me know your favorite charity. For every $1 of profits from selling our Make Mistakes poster or tees on Fab, we’ll donate $2 to your favorite charity. We’re not in this for the money. We believe this Make Mistakes stuff. We live it every day here.  jason@fab.com.

Smile, you’re designed to.

p.s. my new favorite hashtag #makemistakes

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Betashop is the website of Jason Goldberg,
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Fab.

Jason founded Fab in 2011 with Bradford Shellhammer (Chief Design Officer) and Nishith Shah (Chief Technology Officer).

Fab is everyday design.

Fab’s mission is to help people better their lives with design. Millions of people around the world use Fab to discover everyday design products at great prices, to connect with the world’s most exciting designers, and to share their favorite design inspirations. Smile, you're designed to.

Some have called Fab "the fastest growing E-commerce company on the planet." We like to say we're just doing our best to serve up great design that makes people smile.

Fab now serves more than 11 million members across 26 countries. Fab grew sales by more than 500% in 2012, one-third of which comes from users of the Fab mobile apps for iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. In February 2013 Fab was named the #5 most innovative company in the World by Fast Company. Fab won the award for Best E-Commerce Company of The Year at The Crunchies in both 2012 and 2011. It's all very humbling and inspiring. The truth is we celebrate our challenges more than our successes at Fab and we're really still just getting started.

Fab is the fourth company Jason founded. Jason previously founded fabulis, socialmedian, and Jobster. In 2009, following the sale of socialmedian to XING AG, Jason was Chief Product Officer at XING, based in Hamburg, Germany. Before starting Jobster in 2004, Jason led product and business initiatives at both T-Mobile USA and AOL Time Warner. In a prior life, Jason spent 6 years working 100 hours a week for Bill Clinton in the White House.

Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics. He is also an investor in BlackJet and Twitter. Notable prior investments: TweetDeck.

Jason is a product guy. He loves to blog, loves transparency, and loves trying to make people smile. Jason shares everything about Fab on his blog, betashop, at http://betashop.com.

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