The Kiwi startup DropIt has appointed former Netflix Marketing lead, Joel Mier to its board.  He agrees it could be worth $1 billion in three years' time.

DropIt provides an app that helped companies run 83,000 so-called "drop auctions" or reverse auctions to sell their products online in the year to March.

Its revenues are still in the single-digit millions, but chief executive Peter Howell said the firm with 24 staff experienced "8000 per cent" revenue growth last year and expected to run 600,000 auctions this year as it grew in the United States.

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