Automatic / Automatic Auctions

Automatic / Automatic Auctions is the post-BoSo company direction described in Harj Taggar on Y Combinator, Triplebyte, and Hiring Judgment. The source says Harj Taggar, Kulvir Taggar, and later Patrick Collison shifted from a UK student marketplace toward software that helped small businesses and eBay sellers sell online more easily.

The company is a Founder Product Fit caution in the episode. Harj says the team built tools for heavy online sellers even though they were not themselves heavy sellers, which limited how deeply they understood the user’s real workflow. After Demo Day, the company raised money from investors including Paul Buchheit, then later received acquisition offers from Live Current Media and [[Meta|Facebook]].

Connections

• Harj Taggar, Kulvir Taggar, Patrick Collison, and John Collison - early team and collaborator context.
• BoSo - preceding marketplace idea.
• Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Paul Buchheit, and Startup Legitimacy Transfer - accelerator and investor context.
• Live Current Media and [[Meta|Facebook]] - acquisition-offer context.
• Founder Product Fit - mismatch between founders and heavy-seller users.