How it started
History
CafePress, Inc. was founded as a privately owned company in 1999 by Fred Durham and Mahesh Jain.
In July 2008, CafePress acquired the specialist photographic art printing business Imagekind, and in September 2010 further acquired photo-to-canvas company Canvas On Demand to add to their family of brands.
In June 2011, CafePress filed with the SEC to raise up to $80 million in an initial public offering.
On March 29, 2012, CafePress debuted at $19/share on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PRSS. The stock hit an intraday high of $22.69/share.
On April 30, 2012, CafePress announced that it would move its corporate headquarters from San Mateo, California, to its production facilities in Louisville, Kentucky, at a cost of $16.5 million. Louisville and the state of Kentucky had offered incentives as high as $10 million for the move, up to $1 million per year for ten years.
From Wikipedia’s article on CafePress, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2