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Introduction
00:00 • 1min
How to Spot the Next Big Opportunities in Business
01:25 • 3min
How to Be a Good Matcha Drinker
04:22 • 2min
The Impetus Behind Dissecting Marketplace Businesses
06:40 • 3min
How to Grow Marketplaces With Airbnb
09:23 • 2min
How to Crack the Chicken and Egg Problem
10:58 • 2min
How to Build a Marketplace Business
12:35 • 2min
What Makes a Marketplace Business?
14:24 • 2min
The Misalignment of Incentives Between the Creator and the Patron
16:30 • 2min
Why Founders Want to Go After the Marketplace
18:58 • 2min
The Power of Network Effects
21:26 • 2min
The Importance of Marketplaces
23:19 • 3min
How to Succeed in a Marketplace
26:00 • 3min
The Contrary Approach to Product Market Fit
28:33 • 2min
How to Measure and Metrically See if You Have Product Market Fit
30:21 • 2min
How to Scale a Marketplace Business
32:16 • 3min
The Importance of Geographic Constraints in Product Development
34:56 • 2min
The Importance of Constraints in the Marketplace
36:35 • 2min
How to Navigate to Constraints
38:17 • 2min
The Importance of Supply for Demand
40:03 • 2min
The Importance of Supply in the Marketplace
41:35 • 3min
Rover, TaskRabbit, and Zillow: How to Create Supply and Demand
44:31 • 2min
How Wendy Shifted Demand to Create Demand
46:16 • 1min
The Importance of Discovery in a Marketplace
47:30 • 2min
The Above the Line Version of Airbnb
49:32 • 2min
The Reality of Airbnb's Growth
51:39 • 4min
The Importance of Data in Startups
55:12 • 2min
The 12 Most Common Growth Levers for Early Supply Growth at Marketplace Companies
57:29 • 2min
The Key Lever for Marketplace Growth
59:34 • 2min
The Importance of Sales in Silicon Valley
01:01:57 • 2min
Airbnb: The Monopoly of Growth
01:04:22 • 3min
How to Scale a Business
01:07:37 • 2min
How to Set Expectations Early With Your Early Supply
01:09:32 • 1min
Uber and Lyft: A Comparison
01:11:00 • 2min
How to Build a Marketplace
01:12:47 • 2min
The Thumbtack Problem
01:14:32 • 3min
How to Drive Demand Growth in a Marketplace
01:17:22 • 3min
The Future of Marketplaces
01:20:05 • 2min
The Importance of Advertising in Engineering
01:22:35 • 3min
The Role of Word of Mouth in Driving Demand
01:25:27 • 3min
How Yelp Could Have Been a Marketplace
01:28:23 • 2min
How to Scale the Marketplace
01:30:20 • 2min
The Importance of Focusing on One Use Case
01:32:32 • 2min
How to Scale Your Marketplace
01:34:36 • 5min
Scaling to a More Advanced Econometric Model
01:39:08 • 2min
The Most Common Lever for Growth at Scale
01:41:11 • 2min
The Power of Loops in Performance Marketing
01:43:34 • 2min
How to Maintain Quality at Scale
01:45:12 • 2min
How Airbnb and Uber Manage Quality Over Time
01:47:12 • 2min
How to Find Early Signals of Supply Quality in Your Marketplace
01:49:14 • 2min
The Importance of Being Aware of Your Competition
01:51:03 • 4min
The Thumbtack and the Snow White Initiative
01:54:36 • 2min
The Importance of Understanding Your Markets
01:56:18 • 2min
How to Be a Better Listener of the Podcast Ecosystem
01:57:50 • 2min