Daniel Sugarman
Daniel Sugarman is CEO and cofounder of Zentail, an ecommerce automation platform for multichannel merchants. His passion for ecommerce goes back to his early days as a seller. As he experimented with channels like Amazon, eBay and Jet.com (before its acquisition by Walmart), he and his cofounder built Zentail to scale and automate daily tasks. His team ranked as a top 5 seller on Jet.com before opening up their technology to other sellers in 2015, at the counsel of Jet’s founding team. Sugarman is also an alumnus of Y Combinator (YC S12), a prestigious program for early stage startups.
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