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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Etsy comes up
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 49:25 Lenny Rachitsky This is why leading platforms like Etsy, LinkedIn, Square, and Lyft trust Persona to secure their platform.
A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love
- ▶ 50:42 Lenny Rachitsky This is why leading platforms like Etsy, LinkedIn, Square, and Lyft trust Persona to secure their platform.
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- ▶ 4:17 Lenny Rachitsky Learn why some of the world's most iconic companies like Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Vercel, and Webflow rely on DX.
- ▶ 30:45 Lenny Rachitsky Persona helps leading companies like LinkedIn, Etsy, and Twilio securely verify individuals and businesses across the world.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 3:51 Lenny Rachitsky Learn why some of the world's most iconic companies like Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Vercel, and Webflow rely on DX.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 18:46 Jake Knapp You can put your products on Etsy, but Etsy has become quite commoditized. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:19 Jake Knapp So when they compare against Etsy, when they compare against Shopify or setting up your table at an art fair, they're going to differentiate on helps you grow and cooperative.
- ▶ 1:18:07 Jake Knapp We believe they're going to choose it over Shopify and Etsy because our solution is cooperative and easy to use.
- ▶ 1:21:14 Jake Knapp They're going to test these prototypes head to head and also show people like, okay, here's Etsy.
How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- ▶ 3:44 Lenny Rachitsky Persona helps leading companies like LinkedIn, Etsy, and Twilio securely verify individuals and businesses across the world.
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 4:28 Lenny Rachitsky Persona helps leading companies like LinkedIn, Etsy, and Twilio securely verify individuals and businesses across the world.
Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
- ▶ 4:11 Lenny Rachitsky Learn why some of the world's most iconic companies like Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Vercel, and Webflow rely on DX.
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 6:02 Lenny Rachitsky Persona helps leading companies like LinkedIn, Etsy, and Twilio securely verify individuals and businesses across the world.
The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
- ▶ 5:28 Lenny Rachitsky Learn why some of the world's most iconic companies like Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Vercel, and Webflow rely on DX.
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- ▶ 50:54 Claire Butler He'd go to lunch at Etsy or, or whatever, and just get feedback on things.
Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
- ▶ 0:38 Tim Holley And we, we did something that far as I know, we'd never done in Etsy's past, which is we put out a call to our sellers to say, now's the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22 Lenny Rachitsky Tim is VP of product at Etsy, where he's been for over 10 years and has helped grow Etsy from around five hundred million in GMV to over thirteen billion in GMV. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Lenny Rachitsky So you've been at Etsy for, I think over 10 years. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:35 Lenny Rachitsky So I've always seen the Etsy journey from the outside. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:16 Lenny Rachitsky While we're on this topic, I'm curious what Etsy's values are. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:32 Lenny Rachitsky So another big moment as an outsider that it feels like Etsy went through is, is during COVID. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:55 Tim Holley We've, we've long at Etsy been a really, and maybe rose tinted glasses speaking a little bit, but, uh, a really great experiment, AB testing driven
- ▶ 21:13 Lenny Rachitsky And the way you described it as initially was, how do we make sure the sellers that are joining Etsy are most well served? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Tim Holley So how can we make sure that the time they spend on Etsy managing their inventory, you know, offering customer support is as valuable as possible.
- ▶ 31:53 Tim Holley Um, and so for, for a second there on Etsy, we had four stars and a horse showing up for some of our review ratings and that spawned a huge amount of, of internal, uh, fun.
- ▶ 34:43 Tim Holley We, we've long and continue to invest in sustainability and the, the text change was in our cart where, uh, we call out Etsy offsets carbon emissions from every delivery. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:26 Lenny Rachitsky How do you think about that at Etsy? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:00 Lenny Rachitsky I'm curious in terms of acquisition, what you've seen work and just generally how do people find Etsy? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:53 Tim Holley Things like we, we on Etsy, we call them favorites, you know, that might be liking or, or a similar action on, on other places.
- ▶ 44:12 Lenny Rachitsky It's kind of wild that Etsy can exist in a world of eBay and Amazon. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:05 Lenny Rachitsky And I think Etsy went through that experience where there's like a lot of cheap products from overseas 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:25 Lenny Rachitsky Another, I think problem that's sort of unique to Etsy, something that I think people call the graduation problem, which is where you join Etsy, things start to grow. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:25 Lenny Rachitsky A cool thing that I saw online about you is that you built a marketplace essentially within Etsy called Etsy Studio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:25 Lenny Rachitsky A cool thing that I saw online about you is that you built a marketplace essentially within Etsy called Etsy Studio. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:50 Lenny Rachitsky Are you able to just paint a rough picture of kind of the way the teams are laid out at Etsy, just like a bedroom, there's a buyer side and a seller side.
- ▶ 1:02:48 Tim Holley And to some degree, I'm not describing anything that's atypical of, of great product people overall, but I think we have, we have either a slightly different flavor or we need it in a slightly different way here at Etsy.
- ▶ 1:10:07 Lenny Rachitsky What's a favorite item you recently discovered on Etsy? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:17 Tim Holley Send me, send me things that you're excited about on in the Etsy product.
The ultimate guide to JTBD | Bob Moesta (co-creator of the framework)
- ▶ 28:35 Bob Moesta And what they ended up doing is we ended up going and studying eBay and Etsy and what caused somebody to say today's the day I'm going to set up an eBay store or sell something on Craigslist.
- ▶ 43:25 Bob Moesta I wanted to stop using Etsy.
Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier
- ▶ 59:25 Dan Hockenmaier Then you have a managed marketplace like Airbnb or Etsy, which did something like really fundamental on top of that, which is generate trust. 2 times in the scene