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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. As a result of this experience, I’m often asked what I’d recommend startups do to grow supply in their marketplace. Cost: Small.

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As new tech platforms hit scale, we on the consumer team have been closely watching the future of media and the technology driving it — in all forms. Since Apple launched its Podcasts app in 2012, smartphones have quickly grown to become the most common device for podcast consumption.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

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