Etsy bought his marketplace for $275 million

Yan Pritzker, Reverb

eBay sucked for selling guitars and other musical instruments. So Yan Pritzker created an alternative marketplace, Reverb.

Yan Pritzker

Reverb

Yan Pritzker is the co-founder of Reverb which allows customers to buy and sell music gear online.

Andrew Warner 0:04
Hey there freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner, I am reluctantly sadly, unfortunately, still recording from home with my home microphone, my home recording equipment and my home kids were running around outside my door. I don’t enjoy it, but it’s for the best that I can still do this and stay safe hopefully. Joining me is another entrepreneur who’s recording from home who’s a little bit happier about getting to do that. He is a guy, Yan Pritzker, who created a site to help musicians sell their equipment. And if you were to come to me and say musicians get to help sell their equipment back when he launched the company. I would have probably said, you know, there’s eBay already. What do we need another website for selling equipment, there’s Craigslist, there’s this there’s that but he got into it, and he got excited about it. And he built it up and eventually sold it to Etsy, another marketplace that...

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