Bill Gates’ Youngest Daughter Faces Sharp Backlash Over Phia Startup’s Affiliate Tactics
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Bill Gates’ Youngest Daughter Faces Sharp Backlash Over Phia Startup’s Affiliate Tactics
Phoebe Gates wanted to build something fresh. The 23-year-old daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates co-founded Phia, an AI-powered shopping app that promised to hunt down the best fashion deals. It raised tens of millions from big-name investors. Growth looked strong. Then reports surfaced that painted a different picture. The company stood accused of cookie stuffing. This practice lets an app drop tracking files into a user’s browser so it can cla…
An inconspicuous cookie in a web browser can secure a company a commission for a purchase it did not actually make. It was the so-called “cookie stuffing” that got Phia, a startup co-founded by 23-year-old Phoebe Gates, the daughter of billionaire Bill Gates, into trouble. According to findings by Bloomberg, the company’s founders should have known about the problematic features several months before the case became public. In the US, such behav…
Only a year ago, Phoebe Gates launched the company Phia, a large comparison platform for clothing and accessories – with success. However, reports are now questioning their business model.
It seems that even billions aren't enough for some people. When you're the daughter of one of the richest people in the world, you might think that making money isn't the most important thing. Yet Bill Gates' 23-year-old daughter, Phoebe Gates, has been trying to prove for some time that she can succeed without a famous last name and her father's fortune. Now, her company has been embroiled in a serious scandal that has led to a sentence of up t…
Phoebe Gates, the youngest daughter of tycoon Bill Gates, is at the epicenter of the digital business conversation after a report is released detailing the internal operations of her e-commerce company, Phia. According to data originally published by the e-commerce company, Phia...
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