How Etsy Has Sustained Growth With a Clever M&A Strategy

The e-commerce platform’s acquisition of Depop is only the latest move in its ambitious expansion plans

Kevin LaBuz
Marker
Published in
7 min readJul 12, 2021

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When businesses decide how to allocate their capital, they essentially have four options: reinvest, return capital to shareholders through dividends or repurchases, take on mergers and…

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Kevin LaBuz
Marker

Head of IR & Corporate Development at 1stDibs. Previously finance at Etsy, Indeed, and internet equity research at Deutsche Bank. Find me on Twitter @kjlabuz.