![]() Maguire said it is surreal how common the name Etsy has become, and is not something he and other founders ever expected.īut as Etsy has grown well beyond its original goal – to create a sustainable place for people to buy and sell the things they make – it has become more difficult to maintain its do–it-yourself ethos. ![]() Approximately 95 million people used Etsy in 2021 to buy or sell items, according to the company’s 2021 annual investor presentation. That was what led Maguire and his co-founders to say, “We could build that.”Įtsy has grown from that idea into one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. And there’s not really a whole lot out there that, you know, caters to just us,'” he recalls. “They kept saying on the forums at the time, ‘I wish there was a place to sell things that I made, like eBay’s too expensive and unwieldy. And we thought it was really fun” says Chris Maguire, co-founder of Etsy and current shareholder. “It was mostly women who were crafting and sharing their tips and how to make things. Eventually they made a website for an online community called. In 2005, Chris Maguire, Jared Tarbell, Rob Kalin and Haim Schoppik were sick of building websites for clients and wanted to build something of their own. ![]() In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later.
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