Ouibox

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Ouibox
Company type Private
Founded Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. (2006 (2006))
FounderPeyton Fouts
Headquarters
Lexington, Kentucky
,
U.S.
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]

References

  1. ↑ Curtin, Chris (December 17, 2010). "'Tis the Season to Give Back -- Digitally". Huffington Post . Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
  2. ↑ Davis, Alex (2010-12-01). "We say 'oui' to Ouibox: A revolution in networking". my.hsj.org. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
  3. ↑ Miller, Kacie (2010-10-27). "Young Lexington Entrepreneur Launches OuiBox (Editors Note)". University of Kentucky EconDev News. Archived from the original on January 7, 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
  4. ↑ Eblen, Tom (October 27, 2010). "Young Lexington entrepreneur launches OuiBox". Lexington Herald-Leader . Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
  5. ↑ Holaday, Erin (November 10, 2010). "Oui! UK Alum Launches Life-Changing Web Tool". University of Kentucky UKNOW. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ "OuiWrite". OuiBox. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "OuiWrite". OuiBox. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  8. ↑ "OuiWrite". OuiBox. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2021.


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