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Managed luxury consignment operator with public GMV and profitability disclosures.
managed consignment · Index #3 · confidence high
The RealReal is tracked on Mooselen as a managed consignment running a managed consignment model across United States. Headquarters: San Francisco, United States. Ownership status in the Mooselen ledger: public.
Categories covered: luxury, fashion. Authentication model: in house. Fulfillment model: platform fulfilled.
Managed luxury consignment operator with public GMV and profitability disclosures. Mooselen treats this as a verified profile card fact, not a forecast.
On the Mooselen Index (edition 2026-08-03), The RealReal ranks #3 in the Managed consignment tier. The leading managed-consignment operator in luxury and the category benchmark for authenticated resale. The Mooselen Index ranks operators on disclosed scale, category position, and momentum. Detailed company profiles are included with Mooselen Professional. Current ranking edition cutoff: August 3, 2026 (includes eBay completion of the Depop acquisition).
Disclosed revenue and full GMV definitions are not invented on this public profile. Where Mooselen has published numbers, they appear in Wire, Analysis, or Index sources linked below. Profile last verified 2026-08-03 with high data confidence.
Business model managed consignment
Headquarters San Francisco, United States
Geography United States
Ownership public
Categories luxury, fashion
Authentication in house
Fulfillment platform fulfilled
Disclosed revenue Not publicly disclosed on this profile card
Disclosed GMV/GMS See Index scale notes when entitled; public Signal and Wire disclosures are linked below when available
Last verified 2026-08-03
Chronological, attributable developments. Dates describe when events occurred, not when every underlying company field was reverified.
The RealReal appointed Tiffany Stevenson chief people officer and Tom Hanrahan chief revenue officer.
A consignment operator at this scale is a labor business as much as a marketplace; pairing people and revenue leadership frames the next phase as execution.
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The RealReal appointed Jennifer McKeehan, COO of Fanatics Commerce, to its board.
Boards signal priorities by who they seat; this seat emphasizes supply-chain and logistics-heavy operations.
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Julie Wainwright stepped down as CEO and board chair of The RealReal.
A founder exit at a public managed-consignment operator marked the pivot from growth-at-all-costs toward profitability discipline.
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This profile was last verified 2026-08-03. Older information is retained as historical evidence until new sources are reviewed.
August 11, 2026
Glossy reported that The RealReal and other resale marketplaces routinely emphasize gross merchandise value when communicating with investors and the public. Fashionphile disclosed GMV exceeding $500 million, while Depop reported GMV above $1 billion as of February, according to the outlet. The RealReal similarly highlights the metric across its financial communications.
May 7, 2024
The RealReal reported a first quarter 2024 adjusted EBITDA loss of 2.3 million dollars, a 25 million dollar improvement year over year, and told investors it expected to reach full-year adjusted EBITDA positive for the first time since its 2019 IPO. Bloomberg noted the company had also delivered its first positive adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow quarter in the prior period.
March 29, 2023
Vinted reported its first annual net profit, 17.8 million euros, on revenue of 596.3 million euros in 2023, a 61 percent jump from the year before, with adjusted EBITDA of 76.6 million euros, according to the company’s annual report and coverage in Sifted and the BBC. It was the first time a major consumer-to-consumer secondhand platform showed the model could clear profit at scale.
June 7, 2022
Julie Wainwright, who founded The RealReal in 2011 and built it into a public company, stepped down as CEO and board chair effective June 7, 2022, a move analysts read as the company pivoting from growth toward profitability, according to Business of Fashion, Retail Dive, and Vogue. The exit came as public markets soured on unprofitable growth stories across tech and retail.
January 20, 2022
Vestiaire Collective closed a 178 million euro round, roughly 210 million dollars, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management, reaching a 1.7 billion dollar valuation, according to Business of Fashion. The investor list mattered as much as the number: a climate-focused fund and a mega-fund arriving together framed luxury resale as both a sustainability play and a scale play.
The RealReal appointed Tiffany Stevenson chief people officer and Tom Hanrahan chief revenue officer in March, drawing on leadership experience from Sephora, Box, Weight Watchers, and Square.
The RealReal appointed Jennifer McKeehan, chief operating officer of Fanatics Commerce, to its board of directors in March, succeeding Niki Leondakis, who stepped down after serving since 2019. McKeehan's background runs through Walmart, Peloton, and The Home Depot, all logistics-heavy operations.
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