Fake: Investors overlooked Etsy's female-dominated, countercultural marketplace in early rounds
Caterina Fake · Caterina Fake: Build a more human internet | Masters of Scale · Nov 24, 2023 · at 25:13
Flickr co-founder and early Etsy investor Caterina Fake reflects on why early tech investors overlooked Etsy in 2005–2006.
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“One of the things that was missed was that it was a principally female marketplace, right? And at the time it was 2005, 2006. There were a few examples of that, but Etsy was also a market that appealed to a certain kind of semi-countercultural group.”
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