About
Chad is the former CEO, President and Chairman of Etsy, leading the company in its mission and growing it into a global community of creative entrepreneurs and their customers. Under Chad's leadership, marketplace sales by Etsy’s community of more than a million sellers have grown significantly. The company became a Certified B Corporation in 2012 and, in both 2013 and 2014, Etsy was named one of the Best Small & Medium Workplaces by the Great Place to Work® Institute. In April 2015, Chad was appointed as a member of the US Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations by President Barack Obama. Prior to becoming CEO in 2011, Chad was Etsy’s CTO. Before joining Etsy, Chad led Yahoo’s Brickhouse & Advanced products team, and the Yahoo! Developer Network. Notably, he created the Yahoo! Hack Day initiative, the first internal innovation program of its kind. Almost entirely self-taught in all things tech, Chad was an early advocate for the power of the Internet as a disruptive pl
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 8 investors at Etsy are tracked.
- • 26 investors hold the Chairman of the Board of Directors role in VCSift. Chad Dickerson is one of them.
- • 379 investors are based in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Brooklyn, US
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