Lanny Baker

“Yeah, the recent strength in our trailing 12-month buyer is more about success today than rolling off soft periods a year and a half ago. Whereas if you go back a little bit earlier, it was a little bit more of a matter of comps.”

“Kruthi already covered Etsy Marketplace GMS and our headline metrics, so I'll focus on revenue, profitability, capital allocation, and our outlook. Revenue was $668 million in the second quarter, up 6.2% on a continuing operations basis, and 9.3% for the Etsy marketplace standalone.”

“Well, let me go back just one click and say that Josh Silverman, who led the organization for seven or eight years, put in place a team that really was able to rise as he moved on to be our executive chairman.”

“As Kruthi just described, we've had an encouraging start to the year, and I will discuss some of the drivers of that progress, as well as what it means for Outlook going forward.”

“You know, as we said at the time when we announced the transaction is that we anticipate using the proceeds for general corporate purposes for, and as we've done in the past, managing our balance sheet and repurchasing stock.”