Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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

Marketing 0

Marketing Revenue A/B Testing Workflows 0

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

affordable and unique travel experiences for guests, and great income for hosts. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. To launch a city, we’d travel there and hold a meetup. Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market.

User Experience 111

User Experience Retention Marketing Travel 111

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Growing your startup’s users and revenue is so critical that it makes sense to hire someone to run it, and to potentially add a team underneath them to support this goal. Similarly, product folks from highly quantitative categories like travel, games, and marketplaces tend to do well. It’s asked often for good reason.

Scaling 82

Scaling Marketing Recruitment B2B 82

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

affordable and unique travel experiences for guests, and great income for hosts. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. To launch a city, we’d travel there and hold a meetup. Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market.

User Experience 48

User Experience Retention Marketing Travel 48

Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So not revenue per CAC is that you know typically there’s cost associated to user. The OTA sites (online travel agencies – Priceline and Expedia) just spends, you know, they spend a GDP of many large countries in their acquisition; and then it’s often a tactic in some good business. Travel’s a similar thing.

Marketing 75

Marketing Metrics Retention eCommerce 75