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How about a Barry Manilow clock or a flamingo hat? If so, Etsy might be the spot you need to go to right now. It's an online marketplace for unique and handmade goods. After its launch in 2005, sales soared, reaching more than 1.3 billion dollars, that's with a \"B,\" last year. \n\n[Bar graph showing Etsy annual transactions in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013: 180.6 million in 2009, 314.3 million in 2010, 525.6 million in 2011, 891.5 million in 2012, and 1.35 billion in 2013.]\n\nNEWS ANCHOR 1: Chad Dickerson is the CEO of Etsy and he joins us at the table, and not for nothing, he's a Duke grad. It's a very Duke-friendly place around here.\n \nCHAD DICKERSON: I am, thank you. Just like Charlie. \n\nNEWS ANCHOR 1: Yes, just like Charlie. Good to see you, Chad. So you don't like the word tchotchkes, you don't like the word knickknacks because you say it's unique, one of a kind. Why is that important to you?\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: Absolutely, I mean Etsy is a community of a million artisans and craftspeople and what they make is really beautiful and unique. So we really want to respect the artisanship and craft behind what's on the site. \n\n[Text on screen “Trending on Easy: Vintage Style Harry Potter Time Turner Necklace, Wooden Curve Test Tube Vase, Unicorn Lamp”]\n\nNEWS ANCHOR 1: Like your cufflinks, for instance, those stood out to me.\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: Oh yeah.\n\nNEWS ANCHOR 1: Those are very cool.\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: In fact, so I have these cufflinks that are made from vintage maps. \n\nCHARLIE ROSE: Oh yeah.\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: And here on my left is Berkeley, where I lived, Berkeley on the left.\n\nCHARLIE ROSE: Nice.\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: And Brooklyn on the right, where I live now. So these are -- you can pick your cities and the seller will make those for you.\n\nCHARLIE ROSE: And what did you bring with you?\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: So I brought with me three really beautiful items. The top categories on Etsy are jewelry, clothing, and housewares. So this is an example of a beautiful bracelet that you can buy on Etsy, and again, jewelry is the top category. You can find engagement rings that have the fingerprints of the two people getting married, amazing customized stuff, clothing, beautiful bow ties.\n\nCHARLIE ROSE: Yes.\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: Gorgeous.\n\nCHARLIE ROSE: And the next item? \n\nCHAD DICKERSON: Oh, the next item, this is a lamp. \n\nCHARLIE ROSE: Aww!\n\nNEWS ANCHOR 1: Now that's where you lost me. You lost me there, Chad. \n\nCHAD DICKERSON: This is a really beautiful lamp, and one of the things that's amazing about Etsy is, you know, we've lived in a world with big box retail where you go to a store and you pick something up off the shelf and it looks the same as everyone else.\n\nNEWS ANCHOR 1: But that is the beauty of Etsy.\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: And this is -- the beauty of Etsy is you can get something that no one else has.\n\n[Text on screen “Etsy’s Guidelines: All items must be handmade, vintage, or a craft supply, etsy shops are independent businesses, items must be accurately represented”]\n\nNEWS ANCHOR 2: I have to tell you. Three months ago for the first time -- I know you guys have been around for about nine years, started in Brooklyn -- I bought something from Etsy. And what I found was most interesting is that there was a personalized message in it. That whoever sold me the print that I wanted for my office actually put a note in it, and I thought this is so interesting because I think of online as being really impersonal, but this is not.\n\nCHAD DICKERSON: Right, it's not. That's the beautiful thing. \n\nCHARLIE ROSE: And how did you discover it?\n\nNEWS ANCHOR 2: So I found something and I wanted to buy it from a big box retailer and you guys had it unframed at a much cheaper cost, so I decided to go with Etsy. \n\nCHAD DICKERSON: And you got a personalized note, which I think is--\n\nNEWS ANCHOR 2: Yeah, from the printing place that did it. \n\nCHAD DICKERSON: Right, so when you buy something ","cbCaif689ik3a89H","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif689ik3a89H","txt",13920,"English","# Etsy marketplace and community\n## Product categories and personalization\n## Etsy guidelines and seller structure\n# Business growth and future","[{\"question\":\"What makes Etsy different from big box retail according to the interview?\",\"answer\":\"The interview highlights Etsy’s unique, personalized approach where items are not mass-matched on a shelf. 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