Tryp provides no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.
The Tryp website domain (“tryprides.com”) was registered on July 12th, 2018.
The domain is owned by Robert McNulty, through a virtual office address in the US state of Nevada.
Further research reveals Tryp marketing material and affiliates citing McNulty as CEO of the company.
Why this information is not provided on the Tryp website is unclear.
McNulty has a history in e-commerce, most notably as founder, President and CEO of Shopping.com.
What you won’t find in Tryp marketing material however is McNulty’s tenure as Shopping.com CEO was
marred by a market manipulation investigation
by the SEC.
Later that year McNulty resigned, although he was hired back two weeks later as a “consultant” (nothing suss).
Shopping.com was sold off to Compaq a year later in 1999.
One thing I’ll note is the Wikipedia page for “shopping.com”, which states the site was ‘
founded in Israel in 1998 by Dr. Nahum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi
‘.
Robert McNulty’s name does not appear
in the entry
, so I’m not sure what’s going on there.
Update 20th January 2019 –
Some
insight from BehindMLM reader K. Chang
that seems to fit;
McNulty founded Shopping.com back in 1996, stepped down by 1998. Shopping.com eventually was sold off to Compaq who owned AltaVista at the time.
Elsewhere in Israel, Sharfman and Ashkenanzi founded Papricom, dba DealTime.com in 1998. They bought the shopping.com domain in 2003 from Alta Vista and rebranded itself shopping.com and was eventually bought by eBay in 2005.
/end update
Five years prior to “founding” Shopping.com, McNulty was investigated by the SEC for, among other things, anti-fraud and securities law violations.
In a complaint filed by the Commission on September 30, 1994, McNulty was charged with orchestrating a complex scheme to defraud investors by using the proceeds of securities offerings by HQOS, HQOI, Auto Giant and Auto Depot to finance the operations of affiliated companies and the companies’ underwriter and market maker, Global America, Inc., rather than for the stated purpose of funding the issuers’ operations.
McNulty
settled the charges
in October 1995.
In late 2009 McNulty launched, Kaching Kaching, an e-commerce niche MLM company.
As of late 2010 the company was still operational but appears to have shut down sometime thereafter.
On his personal website McNulty has a section titled “What I’m doing now”;
My latest dedicated journey is a new company I’ve created (ibuy,inc [sic] / ibuyrite) that will enable independent small brick and mortar retail businesses to not only compete, but to thrive in this brave new world of eCommerce online retail.
At the time of publication the Ibuyrite website has an Alexa traffic ranking of 11.3 million, which is as good as dead.
In early 2018 McNulty co-founded SupplyBloc, in which he also held the position of CEO.
According to the SupplyBloc website, it
was founded with the mis
🤖 Quick Answer
Who is the founder and CEO of Tryp ridesharing company?Robert McNulty, an e-commerce entrepreneur, founded and serves as CEO of Tryp. McNulty previously founded Shopping.com and held executive positions there. His ownership of Tryp is documented through domain registration records under his name via a Nevada virtual office address, though this information is not prominently displayed on Tryp's official website.
What SEC investigation did Robert McNulty face during his Shopping.com tenure?
During his tenure as Shopping.com CEO, McNulty faced a market manipulation investigation conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Following this investigation, McNulty resigned from his position, though he was rehired as a consultant approximately two weeks later.
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