Seldom do we get to hear stories of the bumps and bruses earned by a popular website during its formative years. Ross Snyder, a Sr. Software Engineer at Etsy, changes that with an engaging talk he gave at Surge 2011: Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right. Ross gives a detailed and honest account of how Etsy went from a raw startup in 2005, to a startup struggling with their success in 200
