Keyur Govande Is one of TIME's 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data - Time Magazine

Depop is known as an online marketplace for secondhand clothes—but for the Gen-Z fashionistas who congregate there, it’s also a community. With more than 56 million registered users and over 68 million items for sale, it’s a big community, to be sure. But user quality is just as important as user quantity, argues chief technology officer Keyur Govande. 

Given that dual users tend to be more active and engaged community members, Govande, who joined the company in May 2025 after more than 14 years at Etsy, is focused on building tools that help buyers become sellers and vice versa. “It’s the two-sided nature of our marketplace that makes us really special,” he explains, citing as a prime example the company’s listing flow, which saves time and effort by using AI to automatically generate listing titles and descriptions based on merchandise photos. 

To reduce user friction even further going forward, Govande plans to leverage Depop’s new relationship with eBay, which acquired the company in July. “The ways eBay can support us with its deep expertise in things like shipping and payments is something we’re really looking forward to,” he says.