75: From Founder to Acquisition: Jewel Burks and the Partpic Story
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is Jewel Burks. As co-founder and CEO of Partpic, an Atlanta based startup designed to streamline the purchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision technology, Jewel and her team built groundbreaking technology poised to change the way people everywhere locate products. Partpic raised over $2 million in seed funding to integrate its proprietary technology into mobile apps and websites of parts distributors and retailers.
And then, something incredible happened, Partpic was acquired by Amazon. Currently Jewel serves as Team Lead for Visual Search at A9.com, an Amazon Company. In addition to this role, Jewel is a proud board member at Amplify 4 Good, and spends much of her free time working with startups.
On today’s show, Jewel shares:
- How she came up with the idea for Partpic
- How she recruited a smart and talented team and Co-Founder
- What it was like to juggle working for Google while building Partpic
- And what it’s like to have your company be acquired.
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| 1:06.1 | truly needs no introduction her work and her business is legendary her name is Jewel Burks and as co-founder and CEO of Park Pick |
| 1:16.8 | an Atlanta-based startup designed to streamline the purchase of maintenance and |
| 1:20.8 | repair parts using computer vision technology. |
| 1:23.7 | Jool and her team built groundbreaking technology poised to change the way people everywhere |
| 1:29.8 | locate products. Part Pick raised over 2 million in seed funding to integrate its |
| 1:35.6 | proprietary technology into mobile apps and websites of parts distributors and |
| 1:40.2 | retailers. And then something incredible happened. Part Pick was acquired by Amazon. |
| 1:48.0 | Currently, Jewel serves as team lead for Visual Search at A9.comcom and Amazon company. In addition to this role |
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