At TechCrunch’s Detroit City Spotlight this week, I sat down with Rae Witte, the journalist behind the StockX EC-1. TechCrunch’s EC-1 push allows individual authors to go deep on a particular company. And as StockX has been headquartered in Detroit since its inception, we took the chance to dig into our reporting in front of our friends from Motor City. All about StockX Introducing the StockX EC-1 Origin story: How StockX became the stock market of hype Authentication and StockX’s global arms race against fraudsters Where StockX fits in the business of sneakers The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture Witte has been covering the now-unicorn, and the larger sneaker beat, for a half decade.