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For the episode 11 of the EU-Startups Podcast we interviewed Milda Mitkute, the Co-founder of the Lithuanian unicorn Vinted - Europe's leading online marketp...
The adage warns not to count chickens before they are hatched. But Lithuania’s Milda Mitkute, 29, the founder of Vinted, a peer-to-peer global clothing marketplace, has done just that. And it has worked wonders!
May 8, 2024 · By chance, Milda meets programmer Justas Janauskas at a party and tells him about her overflowing wardrobe. Together they decide to create a website that allows people like Milda to sell their surplus clothes.
Sep 5, 2023 · Milda Mitkute was at a party in 2008 when she ended up chatting to developer Justas Janauskus. She’d come up with the idea for Vinted after she found herself with too many clothes for the small flat that she moved to for university.
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Apr 15, 2024 · His last recommendation to Vinted’s three cofounders—Milda Mitkute, Justas Janauskas and Mantas Mikuckas—was perhaps the most shocking.
Sep 5, 2024 · That’s when she met Justas Janauskas, an old friend with technical experience, and told him that her new flat is too small for her many clothes, and there should be a tech marketplace where she could sell them online to other people.
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Oct 2, 2020 · Milda Mitkute is the co-founder of the online marketplace Vinted, where people sell and buy second-hand clothes. With more than 13+ million users it has become a worldwide phenomenon. Mitkute explained at sTARTUp Day 2020 how she developed her own shopping addiction into a successful startup.
