相关阅读：这家美国电商年交易额超30亿美元，竟是中国科大制造

4月7日，中国科大校友卢亮（9104）创办的美国二手商品交易平台——5miles登上纽约时报！5miles成立于2014年，但2016年却实现了超过30亿美元的交易额。

这是个什么样的软件？纽约时报的报道中的5miles 用户称：“Craigslist is the workhorse, but I have been having more success with 5miles, which I supplemented with OfferUp and LetGo.”，并称赞5miles “seems to be the one that is getting me all of the action. I was having so much fun with this.”

以下内容节选自纽约时报：

The 5miles app and website solve a problem common on many platforms for selling your stuff: As each new item posts, yours is pushed down the list. With a free feature called “boost,” you can move your item back to the top every four hours. Other apps have similar features, but they aren’t free.

The app has other fees, though: If you want to use “sales tools” like marking an item “must go” or adding a “click to call” button that lets prospective buyers call you with one touch, you’ll pay $2 to $5.

The app tries to discourage scammers from using multiple identities. By connecting email addresses, phone numbers and Facebook pages — and requiring two of them for “certification” — it makes it easier to confirm that users are who they say they are.

This is also one of the few apps that lets users post services as well as goods, so you can sell your fish tank and hire someone to deliver it, all in the same place.

纽约时报的报道原文请见这里。

卢亮简介

卢亮1991年从河南宜阳县第一高中进入中国科大近代物理系学习（9104校友）。2005年获得美国南方卫理公会大学（Southern Methodist University）高能物理学博士学位。

卢亮曾任博客网CTO；2007年加入阿里后，负责过淘宝搜索、广告以及第一版淘宝商城的技术工作，2008年成为淘宝无线事业部第一任负责人。2010-2011年任华数淘宝CEO。2011-2014年任兰亭集势[LITB]CTO。

2014年创办美国移动电商平台——5miles。卢亮长期负责电商项目的数据、算法等工作，这也让他的创业项目5miles将个性化推荐和电商结合在了一起。