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 &#8220;What if Google decides to compete with you?&#8221; type questions
• Overcoming the chicken and egg problem of marketplaces
• Why Yan is so confident in bitcoin
• Bitcoin in 10-20 years

<a href="https://twitter.com/skwp">Yan Pritzker</a> is now working on making Bitcoin investing easy via his new company <a href="https://www.swanbitcoin.com/">Swan Bitcoin</a>.

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Andrew Vasylyk

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 [&hellip;]

Startup Exits Episode #16

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