Posted on 05/13/2014 5:12:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday morning that Etsy is getting $5 million from New York state to stay in Brooklyn, a pretty nice sum for a company whose CEO publicly acknowledged just weeks ago that it “could only exist in Brooklyn.”
“A company like Etsy could only exist in Brooklyn,” Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson said during an April 23 appearance at a Brooklyn Tech Triangle symposium. “Almost all of our employees live in Brooklyn and our Manhattan employees are treated with scorn.”
Etsy, which was founded in Brooklyn in 2005, plans to add more than 340 jobs by 2019 (a figure that does not include the employees brought in two weeks ago under terms of its acquisition of Grand St., another local e-commerce site). To accommodate that growth, Etsy has signed an agreement to become the anchor tenant in a 200,000-square-foot space at the new Dumbo Heights complex just blocks away from its current location in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. Crain’s reported the move last week. …
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Very cool! :)
Yes!!! This is a great example of the creativity one will find on Etsy.
There is something for everyone you just have to find it :)
Etsy is a place similar to Amazon where you can place orders online. The orders take ridiculous amounts of time to be delivered and the service is appalling.
Must be an employee problem.
She doesn’t have any Ridgies up right but happit takes requests.
http://www.almostanangel66.co.uk/
She also donates to rescue auctions very generously.
One of her amazing paintings helped get my Gypsy and her sister Darby out of a shelter in CA.
I love Etsy.
Hope they don’t screw it up like eBay.
Me too!
Yeah, that's how I feel about Ebay. I was just a hobby seller, nothing important, but "back in the day" it was fun. This is the first spring season I haven't listed anything -- just tired of it, and knowing they as a company could care less. (of course, I also haven't bought anything there, or even clicked on the site, in months...tired works both ways!!)
This is my mom’s shop. She really enjoys selling through Etsy.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/vintagelacelinen
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