Webvan Distribution Center
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George Shaheen
George T. Shaheen (born July 11, 1944), an American businessman, was chief executive at management consulting firm Andersen Consulting from 1989 to 1999, before moving on to now-defunct online grocer Webvan. His Webvan employment agreement, signed September 19, 1999 was filed with the SEC. By going to Webvan, Shaheen missed out on the windfall of the Accenture initial public offering. He holds a master's degree in finance from Bradley University.
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Webvan Commercial - Kung Fu
Sifu Gary Mitchell of Chien Hong School of Kung Fu stars in this commercial for Webvan
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Promo for ill-fated internet grocery company Webvan.com at San Jose Arena
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Web Van ad at the 2000 Oscars.
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Very Funny Webvan commercial with Brandon Kleyla.
Webvan commercial: "Manifesto"
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One of Webvan's commercials from 1999. Great choreography, questionable delivery efficiency :-)
Webvan commercial: "Plastic bag"
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One of a series from Webvan in 2000 that tries to point up how unpleasant the grocery store experience is.
Web Van
Just a shot of an old Web Van truck I spotted at the Hollywood farmers market this morning. Web Van was an E tailer or e-comerce dot com that was started in Oakland Ca towards the end of the dot com boom in the late 90's. I was employed with them for about a year before they were forced into insolvency. Most of the assets were sold at public auction & as usual the corporate big wigs made out like fat rats by selling their options before our stock was delisted & finally worthless....Ne way the company is now a classic case study in business schools every where on how Not to run a startup.. Despite this it was still one of the better companies i have ever worked for & some of the co workers i remain friends with to this day
Webvan commercial: "Nectarine"
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One of a series from Webvan in 2000 that tries to point up how unpleasant the grocery store experience is. This one shows how much abuse produce suffers in the path from field to fridge - the typical grocery store fruit supply chain includes being touched by 11 people, where Webvan's supply chain only required the fruit to be touched three times.
Webvan commercial: "Back packers"
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One of a series from Webvan in 2000. This one shows the advantage of a customer-specified 30-minute delivery window.
Webvan commercial: "Meat Counter"
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One of a series from Webvan in 2000 that tries to point up how unpleasant the grocery store experience is.
Webvan commercial: "The line"
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One of a series from Webvan in 2000 that tries to point up how unpleasant the grocery store experience is.
Webvan commercial: "Checker"
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One of a series from Webvan in 2000 that tries to point up how unpleasant the grocery store experience is.
Webvan BAY01 Distribution Center
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Webvan's last mile strategy was based around a highly automated distribution center. It was designed to handle up to 10000 orders per day, and had three different temperature zones, a kitchen to make "home meal replacements", plus a vast food prep area where meat, fish and produce were prepared to order - not to mention the wine cellar, cigar humidor and cut flowers! This documentary video is basically a tour of the first DC, near the Oakland airport.
Caught: gevangen in een web van gevaar
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Onze Noordzee wordt in noodtempo vernietigd. Caught laat zien hoe overbevissing, beschadiging van kwetsbare natuurgebieden & giftige stoffen het zeeleven bedreigen. Maar de film draagt ook oplossingen aan om het tij te keren, waaronder het instellen van zeereservaten.
het web van papua
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360 graden theater Web van Noordholland
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Voor Provincie Noord holland heeft Green Dino een interactief 360 graden theater gebouwd. Dit theater is gebruikt op de Floriade 2002. Bezoekers konden video's actieveren door een hand door een lichtbundel te bewegen.
Het web van Danny
SEMINARIE NIEUWPOORT shot at the beach!
A Day in the Life of a Kiva Robot
Complete Premium video at: fora.tv Kiva Systems founder and CEO Mick Mountz narrates a play-by-play video of how Kiva robots automate a warehouse environment. ----- How Robots Think: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Nothing Like the Human Mind Mick Mountz, Founder & CEO, Kiva Systems in conversation with Jason Tanz Mick Mountz is founder and CEO of Kiva Systems. Mountz founded Kiva Systems in 2003, after experiencing the inadequacy of existing material-handling technologies for ecommerce at the grocery delivery startup Webvan. Kiva's integrated order-fulfillment solution employs hundreds of mobile robots and distributed intelligence to enable faster, more flexible ecommerce distribution centers for companies like The Gap, Saks Fifth Avenue, Diapers.com, Staples, Walgreens, and Crate and Barrel. Under Mountz's leadership, Kiva was ranked sixth on the 2009 Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in the US. Before joining Webvan, Mountz spent three years as a product manager at Apple Computer, where he helped move new technologies like FireWire, DVD, Fast Ethernet, and 3D graphics acceleration into the standard desktop platform. He began his career as a mechanical and manufacturing engineer at Motorola. In 2008, Mountz received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New England region. He holds twelve US technology patents.
Thomas Berge - Ik vertrouw je niet meer
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Elke vermoeden dat ooit in mij rees. Is nu keihard een feit. Nu ik hier zwart op wit hard oplees. Wat voor leven jij leid. Deze liefdesbrief voor een andere vent. Is puur bewijs maar wat jij steeds ontkent. Hier kom jij niet meer. Niet meer onderuit. Het is over & uit! Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik kan het niet meer. Ik heb je betrapt voor de zo veelste keer. Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik wil het niet meer. Verstrikt in het web van jou leugens. Maar ik maak me vrij. Al die mooie excuuses van jou. Vallen nu op een plek. Als ik bedenk dat ik jou heb vertouwd. Word ik langzamer gek. Jij bespeelde mij. Ik geloofde jou. Jij beloofde mij eeuwige trouw. Maar in werkelijkheid. Was ik jou al kwijt. Jij had mij weer misleidt. Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik kan het niet meer. Ik heb je betrapt voor de zo veelste keer. Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik wil het niet meer. Verstrikt in het web van jou leugens. Maar nee ik vertouw je niet meer. Ik kan het niet meer. Ik heb je betrapt voor de zo veelste keer. Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik wil je niet meer. Verstrikt in het web van jou leugens. Maar ik maak me vrij. Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik kan het niet meer. Ik heb je betrapt voor de zo veelste keer. Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik wil het niet meer. Verstrikt in het web van jou leugens. Maar ik maak me vrij. (ik vetrouw je niet meer) (ik kan het niet meer) Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik kan het niet meer. Ik heb je betrapt voor de zo veelste keer. Ik vertrouw je niet meer. Ik wil het niet meer <b>...</b>
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Webvan
| Company name | Webvan |
|---|---|
| Company logo | |
| Fate | Bankrupt, resurrected by Amazon.com in 2009 |
| Foundation | 1999 |
| Defunct | 2001 |
| Location | Foster City, California |
| Industry | Online retailer |
| Products | |
| Num employees |
Webvan was an online "credit and delivery" grocery business that went bankrupt in 2001. It was headquartered in Foster City, California, USA, near Silicon Valley. It delivered products to customers' homes within a 30-minute window of their choosing. At its peak, it offered service in ten U.S. markets: San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Sacramento, and Orange County. The company had originally hoped to expand to 26 cities.
In June 2008, CNET hailed Webvan as one of the greatest dotcom disasters in history.
It is now owned and operated by Amazon.com.
History
Webvan was founded in the heyday of the dot-com boom in the late 1990s by Louis Borders, who also co-founded the Borders bookstore in 1971. Webvan's original investors included Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Yahoo!, who encouraged it to rapidly build its own infrastructure (the first-mover advantage strategy popularized by Amazon.com) to deliver groceries in a number of cities. Some journalists and analysts blamed this serious error of judgment on the fact that none of Webvan's senior executives (or major investors) had any management experience in the supermarket industry, including its CEO George Shaheen who had resigned as head of Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), a management consulting firm, to join the venture.Webvan tried to embrace a total customer satisfaction model involving a 30 minute window delivery without considering that many working customers would like their groceries delivered at home and at night.
HomeGrocer, a similar company, started operating the year before Webvan. It went public in March 2000 and, like Webvan, was losing large amounts of money. On 26 June 2000, Webvan bought out HomeGrocer.
Bankruptcy
While Webvan was popular, the money spent on infrastructure far exceeded sales growth, and the company eventually ran out of money. For example: Webvan placed a $1 billion (USD) order with engineering company Bechtel to build its warehouses, bought a fleet of delivery trucks, purchased 30 Sun Microsystems Enterprise 4500 servers, dozens of Compaq ProLiant computers and several Cisco Systems model 7513 and 7507 routers, as well as more than 80 21-inch ViewSonic color monitors, and at least 115 Herman Miller Aeron chairs (at over $800 each).As part of its shutdown process, all non-perishable food was donated to local food banks. Webvan's legacy consists of thousands of colored plastic shipping bins for groceries that are still sitting in customers' basements and closets, and a yearly $375,000 severance package for ex-CEO Shaheen.
Similar businesses
The online grocery market sector in North America has seen many other failures, including Publix Direct. However, there have been a few successes. Two companies founded around the same time as Webvan that still exist today are Peapod started in 1989 in Chicago and SimonDelivers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota and Wisconsin (although SimonDelivers shut down in 2008, it was acquired and re-opened as CobornsDelivers within months). Gopher Grocery is another online grocer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area that has seen steady growth and success through its use of a just-in-time (business) model. The Greater Toronto Area is serviced by Toronto's original home and office delivery company Mr Case which was founded in 1984 and by Grocery Gateway, which has partnered with and is now owned by local grocer Longo's. The New York City market is increasingly served by FreshDirect, YourGrocer.Com and ShopRite from Home. Some other companies, such as Peapod in the Northeastern United States, and Winder Farms in the Western United States existed before the Internet became popular, and adapted their business models to the new medium. Grocer HyVee of the midwest offers a delivery service, sometimes with online ordering, depending on the location / service area.Amazon has also recently unveiled "AmazonFresh", an online grocery delivery service serving Seattle, Washington. As of January, 2009, Webvan.com is operating as "part of the Amazon.com family" (i.e. shipping non-perishable items by UPS or other standard shippers, the way Amazon.com purchases are handled), offering "more than 45,000 non-perishable grocery items."
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