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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

In the past twenty years, we’ve transformed the way people buy goods online, and in the process created Amazon, eBay, JD.com, Alibaba, and other e-commerce giants, accounting for trillions of dollars in market capitalization. It’s a huge leap in terms of user experience over Craigslist’s Childcare section.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

One of the reasons I’ve been excited about being a professional investor is the ability to apply my skills as an operator. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. There’s a couple common frameworks to try to understand this, and one is the Growth Accounting Framework.

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