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How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more

Andrew Chen

Since the 2014 article, Uber has blown past his estimate by 10X, with top line revenues to support it. Today, Craigslist in over 57,000 cities, generating $700M in revenue per year (on job listings fees!) Signup and onboarding. Then people asked if I could pass on a post about a job or something for sale. with just 50 employees.

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)

Andrew Chen

There’s a long laundry list of skills that are critical, but not often considered core to the product: adtech integrations, signup funnel A/B testing, optimizing notification delivery, testing price points, testing cohort curves, etc. Yes, occasionally there are people who know all of it – but they are rare!

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

Andrew Chen

The biggest gains in optimization don’t come from brute-force A/B tests, but from trying to understand the real barriers to people using your product. Increase benefits: Guaranteed revenue, online payments. Question: Is this a channel your competition hasn’t tried yet? Tactic #17: Optimize conversion. Examples : Airbnb?—?Reduce

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

Andrew Chen

The biggest gains in optimization don’t come from brute-force A/B tests, but from trying to understand the real barriers to people using your product. Increase benefits: Guaranteed revenue, online payments. Question: Is this a channel your competition hasn’t tried yet? Tactic #17: Optimize conversion. Examples : Airbnb?—?Reduce