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Franklin: Etsy raised seller fees 30% while announcing record corporate profits
“So this all really got started when they increased their fees a second time by 30% in 2022 and they announced that fee increase in the same week that they announced record profits.”
Kalin: I held under 5% of Etsy at the time of its IPO
“I didn't have a huge amount, you know, and the company went public. I didn't even make the threshold of shareholders with over five percent that you have to disclose.”
Kalin: Etsy generated $1 million in sales in its first year
“In the first year of business, we did a million dollars in sales, and that seemed like quite a lot, and this was all being driven by the more organic traffic of the early web, you know, being written up on blogs like Boing Boing.”