by Mary Kate Marino Late last month, I attended the Global Pet Expo in Orlando, FL. With nearly 7,000 exhibitors, this year’s expo was one of the largest yet, and it has been impressive to watch the event grow over the years — the live pets are a nice touch, too.  As the first investors … Continued

by Ryan Cohen Read or listen to the full article on HBR Most people assume that the high point of my professional career came on April 18, 2017, when the owners of PetSmart paid $3.35 billion for Chewy.com, the pet retailer I had cofounded six years earlier. No doubt, that day was incredible. It represented … Continued

Chewy.com Co-Founder, Ryan Cohen, and Volition Capital Managing Partner, Larry Cheng, sit down and discuss what makes a great investor – and a great investor relationship. Learn more about the whole story behind Chewy.com in our behind-the-scenes case study. 

In this video interview, Chewy.com Co-Founder, Ryan Cohen, discusses how Volition Capital helped him build the business of his dreams. Check out the Chewy.com story from the perspective of the first investors who believed in Ryan’s vision. 

“After more than 100 pitches, in which he argued Amazon could never provide the intimate customer service and expertise of Chewy, someone did. Boston-based Volition Capital LLC put $15 million into the company in 2013. The volume of Chewy’s repeat business was what convinced the firm to invest, according to Larry Cheng, a managing partner … Continued

Watch the video here. Chewy founder and former CEO Ryan Cohen joins “Squawk on the Street” after the company’s first trade at the NYSE.

Read the full TechCrunch article here (By Connie Loizos) Interview Highlights: TC: You get together, and then you settle on creating a retail pets business? Why?  RC: We were doing affiliate marketing and we wanted to own the entire customer experience and were looking for big categories that were underpenetrated. In fact, we thought the … Continued

Former Chewy.com board member and the company’s first institutional investor Larry Cheng, who is also the co-founder and managing partner of Volition Capital, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss the website’s IPO.

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PetSmart, Inc. (“PetSmart”) today announced it completed the acquisition of Chewy, Inc. (“Chewy”), the nation’s leading online retailer for pet products. The combination of PetSmart and Chewy creates one of the leading brick and mortar and online pet retailers, providing the most convenient, high-touch customer experience to serve the needs of pet parents and … Continued

View the full article here.   PetSmart has agreed to make the biggest e-commerce acquisition in history, putting a deal in place to snatch up fast-growing pet food and product site Chewy.com for $3.35 billion, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal. The deal is a huge one by any standard — bigger than Walmart’s … Continued