Former Etsy COO takes over at Teachers Pay Teachers

Adam Freed, fomerly of Etsy and still on the board at Good Eggs and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, took over as CEO of Teachers Pay Teachers this week, according to TechCrunch:

“What really killed it for me… was going to the conference in Las Vegas, meeting 30 to 50 teachers and finding myself so moved by the work they were doing, inspired by the approach they were taking and inspired by the community they’ve created,” says Freed.

Bootstrapped since its launch in 2006, the site has seen 22 million pieces of educational material exchange virtual hands among its network of teachers. Those same teachers have received $86 million in payouts from the sales of their class materials. In 2013 alone, $45 million worth of original content was sold to teachers through the site.