We're re-releasing some of the best episodes from the podcast this summer.
Sarah Tavel (@sarahtavel), partner at Benchmark, and Nabeel Hyatt (@nabeel), partner at Spark Capital, joined Erik on this episode.
They discussed:
- Why they love investing in marketplaces and the evolution of marketplaces over the last decade.
- Why the wave of Uber For X startups didn’t take off.
- How they evaluate marketplaces, and why founders get confused about “which race they’re running” when creating a marketplace startup.
- Where they’re excited about seeing more marketplaces and which spaces they advise founders to avoid.
- The impact of SoftBank and their analysis of the current crop of public marketplace companies.
- Common mistakes they see founders making in marketplace startups.
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