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The upstart: Kaiyo
People in the U.S. toss out a lot of furniture. Every year landfills swallow nearly 10 million tons of household furnishings, according to Environmental Protection Agency data. Alpay Koralturk, CEO and founder of secondhand furniture market platform Kaiyo, remembers his reaction when he first realized the scope of the problem: “This is insane!”
In 2014 a newlywed Koralturk returned to New
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