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20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 7:26 Tim Ferriss Maybe those thousand are the leading tastemakers in the furry community who go to conventions and you're making outfits on Etsy.
Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:21 Micha Kaufman I mean, people, I think, um, I think one of the investors of Etsy, um, talked about them in the same way.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:00 Danny Rimer Another one where we sold too early was definitely Etsy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:35 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Etsy there.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:13 Kevin Ryan Uh, so Etsy is in the same category.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:58 Thomas Plantenga So Depop got sold to Etsy. 4 times in the scene
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:01 Miles Grimshaw But, you know, I remember at one point I wrote this, um, sort of analysis of like, this was before they went public, Shopify versus Etsy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:05 Harry Stebbings Uber, Lyft, you know, Etsy's an incredible company at nine billion, but Shopify's at 85. 2 times in the scene
Jennifer Hyman: Rent The Runway's Journey to $1.7B IPO; Lessons from Beyoncé & Estée Lauder | E1031 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:21 Jennifer Hyman So when Etsy had around three hundred million dollars in revenue, when ASOS, when Revolve, when everyone, and by the way, you can't call yourself a special snowflake anymore when you're looking at everyone in the apparel business, because…
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:22 Akin Babayigit Um, I worked for, uh, Josh Silverman, who's now running Etsy.
20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- ▶ 7:24 Max Rhodes Like Etsy tried this.
20VC: The Roblox Memo: First Round's Chris Fralic on The 17 Year Journey to Build a $41BN Market Cap Company, Why It Is Way Harder To Increase Ownership Across Rounds Today & What Happens Post SPACMania
- ▶ 16:34 Chris Fralic We were acquired by eBay, so I spent a lot of time in e-commerce, person-to-person e-commerce, and really felt like I knew it very well, and remember, we had the opportunity to look at Etsy, and I was almost dismissive, or I just thought…
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings Happiness, learning, ambition, vulnerability, and this was a special episode in that respect, as we welcome Josh Silverman, CEO at Etsy, where he leads the company as it builds a platform that empowers creative entrepreneurs around the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so now I'm very excited to hand over to Josh Silverman, CEO at Etsy.
- ▶ 3:22 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your way into the world of startups that we both love so much, and most importantly, now come to be CEO at Etsy?
- ▶ 8:07 Josh Silverman Etsy, you know, was in a very challenging position. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:15 Josh Silverman You know, when joining Etsy, people thought it was a niche, small marketplace for handmade thing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:49 Josh Silverman An example is at Etsy. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Josh Silverman I mean, I think in terms of my role leading Etsy, we try to think hard about what does success look like for our customers and therefore what is success for us.
- ▶ 16:15 Josh Silverman When I got to Etsy, there was a lot of resistance to moving to the cloud. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 Josh Silverman So at Etsy, worked hard to figure out what that purpose was. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:40 Josh Silverman So instead of asking what good ideas do we have, I try to ask, and I think we at Etsy try to ask ourselves, what are the fewest things we need to do in order to win? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:47 Josh Silverman At Etsy, the way we do it is we're organized in squads. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:50 Josh Silverman We've made a lot of very difficult decisions at Etsy, and I 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:55 Josh Silverman So on the first one, you know, at Etsy, we do have a really agile software development system where, you know, in general, we can go from idea to live to site in a couple weeks.
- ▶ 34:35 Josh Silverman The people who work with me at Etsy are amazing, incredible people.
- ▶ 39:37 Josh Silverman Well, I mean, Fred Wilson is the chairman of Etsy, and he's been an amazing partner for me. 9 times in the scene
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings As for Danny, he's known for his investments in Dropbox, leading the company Series B, Etsy, King, the makers of the world-famous Candy Crush, Skype, and more recently, many retail and fashion businesses such as
- ▶ 12:13 Danny Rimer I'll never forget investing in Etsy and folks saying, well, it's crazy. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- ▶ 19:20 Aaron VanDevender If you think about businesses like eBay and Etsy, where you have folks that are creating things that people want or selling things that people want, but the biggest barrier to getting them to the, to the customers, even if they can find… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Building Shopify From $5m To IPO, Why The Future Of Retail Is Not Online vs Offline & Why Law School Is Like Finishing School For Entrepreneurs with Harley Finkelstein, COO @ Shopify
- ▶ 6:27 Harley Finkelstein Was to use a marketplace like eBay or Etsy or Amazon.
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 22:13 Melody McCloskey Linda Kozlowski, who is one of my board members, she's the CEO of Etsy, has also been an incredible mentor for me over the past year, year and a half.
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Who's a partner at USV, and prior to USV, Albert was the president of Delicious through the company's sale to Yahoo, and an angel investor at Etsy and Tumblr.
- ▶ 4:31 Albert Wenger The company relocated to the West Coast, and I hung out in the USV offices, started making some angel investments, some of which became USV investments, and some of which were USV investments, so it's an angel in Tumblr, and it's an angel…
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 21:46 David Tisch They're able to tell their product story, and you know, you see a company like Etsy, which is able to tell the maker story, a story about the individual who made it.
20 VC 071: Pre-Seed Investing, Why Now Is The Best Time with Nicholas Chirls @ Notation Capital
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings And prior to notation, Nicholas was head of investments at Betaworks, leading investments in companies such as Electric Objects, Inc., Estimote, Inc., URX, Namo Media, Inc., which was bought by Twitter, Inc., and Grand Street, acquired by…
- ▶ 7:19 Nicholas Chirls Um, New York, we believe, has now shown that it consistently can, can produce billion plus dollar exits, and so that's companies like, uh, Etsy and Mongo and, uh, Tumblr and, um,
20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- ▶ 22:50 Harry Stebbings Etsy. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- ▶ 27:29 Jonathan Libov Etsy has a marketplace, uh, but they are the central authorities.
20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
- ▶ 14:55 Charlie O'Donnell Uh, although I was there when we invested in indeed and, and there for the first meeting when we met Rob Kalin and at Etsy.
20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
- ▶ 25:11 Clark Landry It's almost like an Etsy for flowers, and the quality ends up being much better.