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Etsy is the world’s handmade marketplace.

Our mission is to empower people to change the way the global economy works. We see a world in which very-very small businesses have much-much more sway in shaping the economy, local living economies are thriving everywhere, and people value authorship and provenance as much as price and convenience. We are bringing heart to commerce and making the world more fair, more sustainable, and more fun.

We are headquartered in DUMBO, Brooklyn, and also have offices in Hudson, NY, San Francisco, CA, and Berlin, Germany.

Press Contact: Adam Brown

press@etsy.com

Etsy's Beginning

Etsy was conceived by Rob Kalin in early 2005. A painter, carpenter, and photographer, Rob found there was no viable marketplace to exhibit and sell his creations online — other E-commerce sites having become too inundated with overstock electronics and broken appliances. Ever industrious, he, along with Chris Maguire and Haim Schoppik, designed the site, wrote the code, assembled the servers, spliced the cables, and launched Etsy on June 18th, 2005 after only three sleepless months.

Etsy Stats

Members

Over15 million
Active shops

Over875,000
Unique visitors

Monthly42 million
Countries

with annual transactions150
Page Views

Monthly over1.4 billion
Items Listed

Over13 million
Twitter

1.6 millionfollowers
Facebook

730,000likes

Total Merchandise Sales
Million dollars per year

0.17

2005
3.8

2006
26

2007
87.5

2008
180.6

2009
314.3

2010

Sales in 2011: $525.6 million

Etsy Labs

The Etsy Labs are our educational and event spaces for the D.I.Y and artist communities in Brooklyn and Berlin. They are home to regular, free events and workshops that focus on teaching people how to make things. From screenprinting and knitting, to photography and bike repair. The Etsy Labs are there to help you connect with the creative community and learn everything you need to do it yourself.

Etsy Labs exist also as regular pop-up events in Hamburg, Munich, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Portland, OR, and San Francisco, CA.