Yan Pritzker, founder of Reverb.com: $275 million sale to Etsy

Since the beginning of his tech career in the 1990s, Yan has experienced multiple startup exits as both an employee and as a founder. Most recently, he founded and served as the CTO of Reverb.com – a wildly-successful marketplace for musical instruments that became a top 300 most visited website in the US and was acquired by Etsy for $275 million.

On this episode of the Startup Exits Podcast, we chat with Yan about:

• Immigrating from Soviet Union and getting into startups

• Turning passion into business

• Hiring your target audience as customer service reps

• Addressing "What if Google decides to compete with you?" type questions

• Overcoming the chicken and egg problem of marketplaces

• Why Yan is so confident in bitcoin

• Bitcoin in 10-20 years

Yan Pritzker is now working on making Bitcoin investing easy via his new company Swan Bitcoin.

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