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May 5, 2016 · CATSKILL, N.Y. — Rob Kalin made the bed he sleeps on, the cob oven for the bread he bakes with near religious fervor, the progressive preschool his twin daughters, Zia and Kora, attend on the...
- The Early Days: Gaining Trust by Building Things
- Establishing “A Global Community of Like-Minded People”
- “Keeping Commerce Human” and Stepping Down as CEO
- Commercial Success and Struggle For Authenticity
- 7BN Market Cap
- Eternal Quest to Balance Doing Well and Doing Good
“Rob’s idea was almost anti-commercial and idealistic,” one of Etsy’s early investors Christoph Braun, from Acton Capitalrecaps. “However, he made some commercially profound and pioneering decisions early on. Firstly, he regarded real conversations as his most important KPI, sellers and buyers communicating about materials, the crafting process, th...
By the time Christoph and Rob first met, Etsy had already become a force to be reckoned with. “I got to know him at the DLD Conference early 2007 in Munich,” Christoph remembers. “We had an inspiring mutual exchange of ideas and philosophies.” Rob Kalin from Brooklyn, NYC was aware of Munich icon Aenne Burda, not only as one of the most impressive ...
To Etsy, interacting and communicating with its community has always been intrinsic — almost a decade before “conversational commerce” permeated retailers and start-ups worldwide. “Etsy stood out,” remembers Christoph, “by not only bringing street market goods online, but the whole aura and the stories that buyers of handmade products truly love.” ...
In late 2009, however, Rob was forced to turn his attention back to Etsy: under Maria Thomas as CEO, the company had doubled gross merchandise value (GMV) and reached profitability but failed to address continual complaints from sellers regarding customer support and the site’s performance. Rob complained that the company had lost its way and, in p...
The company was a venture capital favorite with over $40 million in revenues, nine million members who sold 10 million handmade and vintage items, and more than 800,000 active online shops. In 2015, when Etsy went public in a $100 million IPO, the community had grown to nearly 60 million members, and nearly $2 billion GMV, and about $200 million in...
While it is unclear what turn of events the company would have experienced with Rob as CEO, what’s certain is that none of this would have happened without the young idealist, who valued his crafting community more than money. Rob, the accidental business person, and “more of an artist than an entrepreneur,” as Etsy’s early investor Fred Wilson onc...
Oct 23, 2021 · As the chief executive officer, Robert Kalin grew the company to the best of his ability by providing socially responsible business practices coupled with an enthusiastic workforce to foster a sensitive community. The founders subsequently created new tools that enabled the sellers to gain exposure.
May 19, 2023 · According to one of the founders, Robert Kalin, he came up with Etsy’s name while searching for a “nonsense word” to help build the brand from the ground up with few connotations. In a 2010 interview with Reader’s Digest, Kalin said, “I was watching Fellini’s ‘8 ½’ and writing down what I was hearing.
Mar 7, 2015 · One thing lacking from Etsy's corporate history is Robert Kalin, the guy who started it. Kalin came up with the idea for Etsy, raised its first batches of venture capital, and was its chief ...
Aug 20, 2023 · From the humble beginnings of a Brooklyn apartment to the vast virtual aisles of the internet’s most beloved handmade marketplace, Rob Kalin’s story isn’t just one of success; it’s a tale of...
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May 5, 2016 · Rob Kalin, the founder and former chief executive of Etsy, the global online crafters’ marketplace, has collected a group of artisans in two 19th-century former mill buildings in Catskill, N.Y....
