See Full StoryA year ago this month, Webvan called it quits. If it seems like the shutdown happened earlier than that, it might be because the company was on the way out for months before its final exit. Or it might be that, in the big picture, Webvan just didn't matter that much. Maybe the Webvan lesson is that no single company, no single idea, no matter how grand, no matter how many people buy into it, is big enough to stop a revolutionary industry like e-commerce.
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