TeePublic is a platform for custom apparel and designs owned by

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. The company was founded by Adam Schwartz and

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, who had previously co-founded

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and

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History

In 2011, Abramson bought back BustedTees, an online

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company he had previously sold to IAC. He and Schwartz launched TeePublic in 2013 as an

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site where artists could upload and sell their designs. The original business model required at least thirty people to commit to buying a shirt before a design went into production, but today, designs are immediately manufactured and sold. The company has also expanded into other products such as smartphone cases, notebooks, mugs, and canvas prints. In 2016, TeePublic shipped more than one million products. In August 2016, the company took down a controversial T-shirt mocking the

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football team. The shirt said "Our OJ only killed Clemson", in reference to O. J. Simpson, who played football at USC and was famously tried and acquitted for murder, and Alabama senior tight end

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. In October 2018, Australia-based

Redbubble Redbubble is a global online marketplace for print-on-demand products based on user-submitted artwork. The company was founded in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia,

acquired TeePublic for US$41 million.

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