Mint ShelfMint Shelf is a marketplace for reverse-logistics inventory. We connect buyers and sellers through a transparent, approachable platform built for the resale community.
Whether you are an experienced reseller or just getting started, Mint Shelf gives you tools to find inventory, create clear listings, and run the work from purchase through fulfillment.
The team
We are a small team working across company leadership, marketplace operations, product development, and customer communication. That size keeps the people building Mint Shelf close to the people using it.
Junior developer · Product development
Haylee is at her best when she has room to own a problem. She can take a rough idea through conversations with users, early designs, feedback, implementation, observation, and all the unexpected debugging that follows. At Mint Shelf, she has independently delivered notifications and SMS, role-based access control (RBAC), and a redesigned gallery that early users love. She has also learned to work confidently with coding agents, not as a substitute for judgment, but as another tool for turning ambiguity into a dependable product.
Beyond the workHaylee may be the quietest person in the room, right up until she becomes the chatterbox. She brings patience, empathy, and persistence to the team, especially when the work gets frustrating. Away from the code, there are three cats, sunsets, Fortnite, Frieren, The Apothecary Diaries, Italian food, and a growing vocabulary of pair-programming shorthand that includes “R,” “Bird,” and “hehehe.” It makes perfect sense to Haylee and Taro. Usually.
Co-founder · Company leadership
Austin-born, Colton is driven by competition, curiosity, and smart risk-taking. That path led him from hands-on ventures to co-founding Mint Shelf, a marketplace built to make buying and selling smarter, simpler, and more human. He runs several high-volume resale warehouses and brings deep experience in sales, marketing, and influencer partnerships.
Beyond the workHe is the person most likely to turn a warehouse story into a product requirement. He and Taro are also blackjack lovers, so probability has a way of becoming a recreational team discussion. Away from the warehouse, he brings the same energy to long hikes, formal occasions, and perhaps a future dog cameo.
Joining the team · Marketing and content
Trevor is beginning to contribute to Mint Shelf, with an initial focus around marketing and content. As the relationship develops, he will help the company explain its work with the same clarity and grounded perspective that shape the product itself.
Beyond the workConsider this a living bio rather than a finished résumé. We are saving room for the stories, favorite projects, working-session photos, and perhaps even a mystery pet that emerge as we spend more time together.
Co-founder · Company leadership
Taro left upstate New York for San Francisco to dive into AI, data science, and startups. For more than a decade, he has worked across product, engineering, QA, design, sales, and marketing, including at three marketplace and network startups. He loves everything about building startups.
Beyond the workTaro has taught himself nearly everything he knows, following his curiosity from software engineering and AI into product, design, sales, and company building. An early example was the study group he organized around Ian Goodfellow’s then-new Deep Learning textbook, including a session with Goodfellow himself, a co-author and the inventor of GANs. That same drive to learn still shapes how he works today: understand difficult systems deeply, make them clearer, and use what he learns to build something useful. He is also Cowboy’s father and always happy to play blackjack with Colton, sometimes until 4 a.m.
For investors
Retail returns and secondary-market inventory create an enormous, fragmented supply. We welcome conversations with investors who understand marketplaces, reverse logistics, and the opportunity to make useful inventory easier to trust and trade.
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