Slickdeals

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Slickdeals
Slickdeal logo (2024).png
Headquarters,
United States
Country of originUnited States
Founder(s) Van Trac
Key peopleNeville Crawley (CEO) [1]
Ken Leung (CTO) [1]
Vitaly Pecharsky (SVP Product) [2] [3]
URL slickdeals.net
Launched1999;26 years ago (1999)
Current statusActive

Slickdeals is a mobile app and online platform where community members report and upvote the best deals on the internet each day. [4] It is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. [5] [6]

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History

Slickdeals was founded in 1999. [1] [7]

In 2012, Warburg Pincus made an investment in Slickdeals. [7] [8]

In 2018, Hearst Corp and Goldman Sachs's private equity subsidiary, West Street Capital, acquired Slickdeals. [7] [9] At the time of the acquisition, Slickdeals had more than 10 million active users. [7] [10]

In June 2022, Statista named Slickdeals as the most visited coupon website in the United States. [11] [12]

In January 2024, Slickdeals named Neville Crawley as chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Josh Meyers, who had been the CEO since 2013. [1] [13] [14]

Platform

Slickdeals' platform allows users to share, review, and give feedback on deals and coupons in the U.S. [15] [16] [2] It also provides deal listings provided by the community and special saving coupons. [17] [18] [19] USA Today called it one of the largest online deal-sharing communities. [20]

It is also available as a browser extension. [20]

References

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  6. "Slickdeals helps navigate shoppers through Black Friday deals". KSNV . November 23, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Goldman Sachs PE Unit Buys Slickdeals From Warburg Pincus". Bloomberg . June 14, 2018.
  8. "Goldman Sachs PE unit buys Slickdeals". Pittsburgh Post .
  9. "Warburg Sells Slickdeals to Goldman and Hearst". Wall Street Journal .
  10. Popomaronis, Tom. "How To Find The Best Black Friday And Cyber Monday Deals (From Home)". Forbes .
  11. "Digital coupons and deals in the United States". Statista.
  12. "Amazon now offers coupons, how consumers can stretch their dollar". April 17, 2023.
  13. "The Liberal Arts of Leadership". www.rollins.edu.
  14. "Finding The Hot Black Friday Tech Deals With Slickdeals.net". FOX 5 DC. November 21, 2017.
  15. "Warburg Sells Slickdeals to Goldman and Hearst". WSJ.
  16. "31 Best Websites to Score Free Stuff". Fortune.
  17. "Most Popular Deal Site: Slickdeals". Lifehacker . November 27, 2012.
  18. "How to Find Online Coupon Codes". PCMag .
  19. "Holiday guide to shopping and saving as sales hit stores early". Today .
  20. 1 2 Saltzman, Marc. "Online shopping: Get the best deal-sniffing browser extensions and protect your packages". USA Today .