A Chat With October’s Profile, Peter Cobb, co-founder/senior vice president, eBags

CS: How many employees do you have?
PC: One hundred and thirty. One hundred and twenty here in Denver, we have 10 in Cambridge in the United Kingdom that work for our European operations, and then one in Tokyo, Japan, where we have a site. We also run the sites globally for Tumi.

CS: When was the company established? When did you begin mailing catalogs?
PC: We formed the company May of 1998, launched the site March of 1999, started doing catalogs around 2002.