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Travis – thank you for leading us at Uber

Andrew Chen

He’ll ask about the sample sizes on your A/B tests. Building an organization that scales from 10 to 10,000 people is insanity. Scaling yourself at the same time is grinding. Wenqi Shao: Thank you Travis for inspiring us to change the face of transportation, for being our chief problem solver.

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

Transportation and travel. It has tracking codes so you can see how well it circulates, and you A/B test the whole thing to make sure it’s highly optimized to be viral and spread. But let’s first cover many of the new platforms that have hit major scale. Above: The new technology at scale is video.

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

Transportation and travel. It has tracking codes so you can see how well it circulates, and you A/B test the whole thing to make sure it’s highly optimized to be viral and spread. But let’s first cover many of the new platforms that have hit major scale. Above: The new technology at scale is video.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

And then we layered in payment integration and each time we did that the total growth of the company would actually accelerate which is very hard to do at scale. . And then there’s this dynamics on how does it scale over time, CAC tends to go up, LTV tends to go down. ” “How is it gonna scale?”

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

Andrew Chen

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. create a marketing strategy to scale the client base and increase visibility. Starting small, and what to do next.

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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.

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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.