Etsy - Fashion Company Profile
Etsy is the Brooklyn marketplace founded in June 2005 where people around the world connect to make, sell and buy unique goods - handmade items, vintage goods and craft supplies from millions of independent sellers. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange as ETSY, and since 2021 it has also owned the fashion resale marketplace Depop, whose own profile is filed in the D letter of this directory.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods, and owner of the Depop and Reverb marketplaces
- Type
- Public - NYSE: ETSY (listed on Nasdaq from its 2015 IPO until the listing moved to the New York Stock Exchange in 2025)
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn (Dumbo), New York, United States
- Founded
- June 2005, in Brooklyn, New York, by Rob Kalin and two friends
Company Profile
As a marketplace itself, Etsy gets no Amazon/eBay shop box here - its own site, linked above, is the destination. The record below is the company's story as filed: the apartment founding, the engineering-culture years, the 2015 IPO filing, the 2017 change of chief executive, the end-of-2018 scale of 60 million items, 2.1 million sellers and 39.4 million buyers, and the 2021 Depop acquisition - kept in full on the history page.
The scale the filing records is dated December 31, 2018: Etsy had over 60 million items in its marketplace, and the online marketplace for handmade and vintage goods connected 2.1 million sellers with 39.4 million buyers. Between the apartment and those numbers sits a leadership story told in three steps. In 2008, Chad Dickerson joined Etsy as its first CTO and created the company's foundational engineering culture, treating 'Code as Craft.' Chad became CEO in 2011 and began championing the 'reimagination of commerce,' a transformation of every aspect of how goods are made, bought and sold.
Etsy History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Etsy History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
When and where was Etsy founded?
In June 2005, in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York, by founder Rob Kalin and two friends, who designed the first site, wrote the code, assembled the servers and spliced the cables themselves, in the historical record.
How big was Etsy at the filing's dated snapshot?
As of December 31, 2018, over 60 million items in the marketplace, connecting 2.1 million sellers with 39.4 million buyers, in the historical record.
What is Etsy's connection to Depop?
On June 2, 2021, Etsy announced it had agreed to acquire shopping app Depop for $1.63 billion, in the historical record; Depop's own profile is filed in the D letter of this directory.
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