Rob Kalin
16 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 30, 2023 by Rob Kalin · across every show →
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Oct 30, 2023 negative
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Kalin: Etsy started as a rejected commerce tab for the Get Crafty forum
“And I remember going to Jean, who was running Get Crafty, and saying, you know, could we add a tab on here for a marketplace so people could actually sell some of this stuff? And, you know, she's very thoughtful and decided against it because, you know, that e…”
Oct 30, 2023 neutral
Kalin: Undercut a $1,600 quote by half for first web development job
“I, again, jokingly, just kind of said, I'll do it for half. And he goes, okay, great. And he kind of shoes me out of his office. And I leave his office holding this piece of paper that was someone else's proposal to make a website for this restaurant. And was …”
Oct 30, 2023 positive
Oct 30, 2023
Kalin: Internet products must create native experiences, not copy offline formats
“Why would we just try to reprise offline shopping experiences online? This is a new medium. So you shouldn't just, you know, take a newspaper, put it online and make it a digital newspaper. We're not just trying to take an offline marketplace and make it, you …”
Oct 30, 2023
Oct 30, 2023 positive
Kalin: Hand-crocheted penis cozies were an unexpected early hit on Etsy
“There was one class of items that took off that I didn't even know was something that existed, and that is penis cozies, and they are hand crocheted cozies for male genitalia, and generally the community was totally supportive of that, and I thought it was A r…”
Oct 30, 2023
Kalin: Nonsense words make global branding easier than compound English words
“And I also, I think even at that early stage, had a sense that I wanted it to be a global brand, and so if it was just two English words stuck together, I felt like it would be more difficult. So I wanted to create a kind of playful, nonsensical word that had …”
Oct 30, 2023 negative
Kalin: There is a continent of computing between wooden blocks and touchscreens
“I think there's a whole continent of computing in between the blocks that children play with and the way technology currently lands in their lap, which is just phones and tablets and reduces them to poking at pictures under glass.”
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Oct 30, 2023 neutral
Kalin: Modern marketplaces like Etsy and eBay optimize for buyers, not sellers
“And you look at a marketplace, like, I would say Etsy now, or eBay, And the primary customer is clearly the buyer, where the whole experience is optimized on the buying side, to the point where, you know, I pay a listing fee, and here's my item, but the websit…”
Oct 30, 2023 bullish
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Oct 30, 2023 neutral
Kalin: Built reputation rebuilding the Get Crafty website in 2003
“So I made that first website, and because this is I don't know, 2003, I got known as, oh, this guy can make a website, and the wife of one of my NYU professors, Jean Rayla, was running a website called Get Crafty, and she needed that website rebuilt.”