Lawyer's yen for online selling led to a $25M family business
Linda Lightman earned her law degree at Brooklyn Law School because she thought it was pathway to “traditional success.”
But the former New York labor and employment attorney left that job in 1991. For the last 15 years, she has operated her own online resale company, Linda’s Stuff.
With the help of a warehouse located in the Philadelphia suburbs, it now brings in $25 million annually and has more than 100 employees, according to the Daily Mail and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Lately, much of the merchandise is new: Retailers are using Linda’s Stuff to sell their excess inventory.
The 53-year-old got hooked on online selling when she tried to make some money from her sons’ video games. From there, she progressed to selling some of her own clothes, and her friends’ clothes. The business took off, filling a niche that had not previously existed, she says, and her company bills itself as “The Leader in Luxury Consignment.”
Her 56-year-old husband, Fred, who is a Columbia Law School graduate, joined the business more than a decade ago and is its president. One of the couple’s sons now has an executive job there, too.
“People say if you do what you love and love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life—I never believed it until I started Linda’s Stuff,” she said.
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