Inside Vinted - from Lithuanian start-up to £4 billion empire
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Inside Vinted - from Lithuanian start-up to £4 billion empire

From its inception at a drunken party seventeen years ago, the second-hand clothing app Vinted is now worth over £4 billion. Nearly sunk by one bad business decision, how did the company reinvent itself and the way we shop today?

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Guest: Sarah Ditum, Contributor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

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Further reading: Antiques boom as the Vinted generation catch the bug

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Photo: The Sunday Times.

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