Ouibox

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Ouibox
Company type Private
Founded Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. (2006 (2006))
FounderPeyton Fouts
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Peyton Fouts
Website www.ouibox.com

Ouibox was a website headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. It featured a social network aggregator, a writing tool called OuiWrite which auto-cited sources, and an affiliate shopping tool called OuiShop which generated donations to charities without affecting a user's purchase price. [1]

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Ouibox signed up 8000 users on the week it launched. [2] It was one of the first investments of the Bluegrass Angels Venture Fund II. [3]

History

Ouibox was founded in 2006 by Peyton Fouts, a graduate of the English and Communications programs at the University of Kentucky. [4] [5]

Archived records indicate that its website showed no changes on its homepage between June 2014 [6] and July 2019. [7] The site had disappeared completely by August 2019. [8]

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