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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look. Everyone’s had the frustrating experience of running an A/B test, seeing a big lift, closing it out, and expecting the top level metrics to move a lot. But they don’t. a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise.

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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look. Everyone’s had the frustrating experience of running an A/B test, seeing a big lift, closing it out, and expecting the top level metrics to move a lot. But they don’t. a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise.

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

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The reason the estimate was so off, as investor Bill Gurley pointed out , is that Uber goes beyond taxi use cases and grows the market substantially by unlocking many new categories of transportation. Then people asked if I could pass on a post about a job or something for sale. And I just kept listening.

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And you can start to draw conclusions, sort of a natural A/B test in order to do that. So for example, if you can get your users to set their home and work for a transportation product then you can maybe figure out, okay, should I prompt them in the morning to try a ride based on what the ETAs are? Another smile, essentially.

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While both consumer marketplaces are very different — one is a city-by-city transportation service, the other a global network of homes — they also share a lot of similarities too: Both were founded within a year of each other, quickly found network effects, made major design innovations that made the consumer experience 10X better, and much more.

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

Andrew Chen

While both consumer marketplaces are very different — one is a city-by-city transportation service, the other a global network of homes — they also share a lot of similarities too: Both were founded within a year of each other, quickly found network effects, made major design innovations that made the consumer experience 10X better, and much more.