Etsy fires CEO Chad Dickerson

Longtime Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson is out. The Etsy board is replacing him with board director Josh Silverman starting May 3.
Dickerson had served as Etsy’s CEO since 2011. Before that he was the company’s CTO, and before that, he was a Yahoo.
Dickerson is losing his spot as chairman of the board as well. New York investor Fred Wilson will take his spot.
In Etsy’s Q1 2017 earnings press release today, Dickerson said, “The Board decided that it was time f